Corrections/Errata
Q1: This used to have 4 valid answers. Now it has 7. Chour and others convinced me that I had missed some.
Q3: There was a typo. I wanted to use the two options of sets and sits, but I spelled sits as sitts. So some folks were able to get it (those who used sets) but others were not (those who used sits). I am very sorry.
Q6: Used to have 6 valid answers. Now it has 24, Caractacus and others pointed out that my phrasing was geographically limited, so I have opened it up.
Hints
Reserved for what may come
Solution
Many of these have multiple solutions all phrased around various ways of phrasing the pun at their core.
Q1: I couldn't send a knight out on a dog like this
Q2: Making an obscene clone fall
Q3: The son never sets on the brutish umpire
Q4:The Czech is in the male
Q5: There's no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise
Q6:A reign being called off on account of game
Q7:He was rustling
Q8:A Benny shaved is a Benny urned
Q9:It's a long way to tip a Rarie
Q10:the fit hit the Shan
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This is my sixteenth (or possibly seventeenth) puzzle of 2016 after:
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games
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I think some of these have too specific wording for answers.
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Which one in particular. I have tried to go with most of the obvious variants, some have 8 possible answers.
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Number 3 for me. I think I know the answer but it doesn't seem to work.
(Edit) And 6. Solved for all except 3 and 6, where I am confident I know the answers, just not the exact wording required.
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for 3, you can either say because [x] or you can say [x], [x] is a well known statement that begins "The..."
For 6, I re-read it and thought of three other ways to phrase the same concept, so I have added three additional correct answers.
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I'm pretty sure I know what's the Q3 supposed to be, but it doesn't work, tried with or without because. I know the saying, and I replaced the words in the saying with those that make sense in the story, thus making it a pun. And it says wrong.
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there was a typo. I wanted to use the two options of sets and sits, but I spelled sits sitts. So some folks were able to get it (those you used sets) but others were not (those who used sits). I am very sorry.
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number 4 is the only one right now, I got a couple others since then
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This will take me forever I think.
I have the answer for Q1 from the only "source" I can find, but it's not accepted. I might sit this one out too.
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Looks like this puzzle doesn't suit me (considering my English level from the Duck Party).. :D
Anyway, I'll give it a shot..
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Bump for only 2 left:
Q1 (have a perfect answer but it seems I can't word it properly...)
Q3 (some vague ideas only)
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I don't really get these jokes so I guess I'll pass.
Here, have a bump.
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Bump for word puzzles still not being my cup of tea, but you deserve to get bumped. :)
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Bump for solved! With a little help of answer tweaking :)
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Bump and meow for solved. thanks so much Mikalye for for fixing it so that it's all fun now!
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Now with the Q3 fixed I was finally able to finish it. Thank you and bumperino.
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Free bump..
Looks like I couldn't make it again this time.. XD
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The shortest distance between two puns is a straight line
The prize this week is Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (http://store.steampowered.com/app/260190/) and the contest runs until 26 April at the now traditional time of 11pm GMT.
Have you ever guessed the punch line to an awful pun in advance? Sure you have … This week's puzzle turns on puns.
You may have heard of the entomologist who was studying a tobacco plant one afternoon, when he noticed a new specimen, thereby taking a new lice on leaf. Or perhaps you have heard the tale that an artificial lake was built and a number of streams and rivers were diverted onto a new course that took them straight through a textile factory. It was forced to close of course, but what do you expect... Too many brooks do spoil the cloth. You may have even heard of Farmer Jones who knew that the best milk comes from contented cows. Therefore, he'd visit them every morning and tell them jokes. The cows laughed and laughed, and they gave excellent milk. However, the news got around and no one else was much amused. Thus, his cows became the laughing stock of the community.
If you liked that last paragraph you will love my puzzle this week. Which is here: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/i5Vq1TyY
I will warn in advance that this week's puzzle requires a very strong level of English. I will go with a math or logic puzzle following in the next week or to to ensure that that is not always a requirement, but it definitely is this week.
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