If you’re here, it’s because you already want answers, so I won’t put on a dog and pony show. While you all know your cats and dogs pretty well, nobody got a purrrfect score.
All correct words are part of some common cat or dog idiom, phrase, character, term, etc. Any word/phrase you found must be able to be combined with cat(s) or dog(s) or both to make that phrase without having to add extra words. The bonus was a little bit different, and almost all of you found it and received credit for it. I hid nine instances of the word “lives” in the grid for the myth that cat’s have nine lives. Unfortunately for some, they included the word “lives” nine times in there regular answers. While they got the five points for the bonus, they missed out on nine points for other words that could have been found. The official answer list:
Dogs
[dog] ate my homework
call off the [dogs]
[dog] days of summer
[dog] eat [dog] world
every [dog] has its day
[dog] gone it
hot diggity [dog]
junkyard [dog]
let sleeping [dogs] lie
sick as a [dog]
[dog] star
Three [Dog] Night
under[dog]
Cats
copy[cat]
Cheshire [cat]
[cat’s] cradle
curiosity killed the [cat]
fat [cat]
[cat] got your tongue
hell[cat]
[cat] nap
[cat] on a hot tin roof
[cat] o’ nine tails
[cat’s] pajamas
scaredy [cat]
Thunder [Cats]
tom [cat]
top [cat]
[cat]walk
Both
it’s raining [cats and dogs]
[cat/dog] fight
What’s fun (and a pain) about this way of doing a word find, is that you guys always find alternate words in those huge grids. I had to limit your three letter word entries!
Other Answers I Accepted
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coon[cat/dog], [cat]like, lost [dog/cat], hep[cat], cats[eye], cat[fit], [dog]gone, [LOL]cat, [sly] dog, sea [dog], [cat] call
Then there were some I did not accept. I googled them all. If they did not bring up results with cat or dog paired with your words without adding more words, they were rejected. If you would like to plead your case for rejected words, please email me.
Rejected Words
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dingo, dig, deli, evil, safe, ace, andy, leo, shines, eat, kit
Top Scorers
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Bret Highum 34
Kelly Wells 34
Matthew Gilman 34
Peggy Sorrell 34
Randy Sorrell 33
Top 5 in Standings
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Matthew Gilman 192
Randy Sorrell 179
Bret Highum 170
Kelly Wells 169
Brooks Maki 167
Tags: Answers, word search
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All word finds without word lists will by accident have some qualifying words. I guess the best way to fix this is to not have any three-letter words, and then specify the length of each word in the word-list (without the words themselves).
Anyway, it was fun. Only way to do a word-find. Otherwise, there’s virtually no challenge.
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Yeah, I dig word finds (sans list) as an occasional break from the tougher stuff.
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Ah jeez, I got burned by the lives thing. I ended up not really having the time anyway, so once I hit 31 with lives I just stopped and called it a week. Probably better for my sanity anyway.
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Okay, so out of curiosity, why was I DQed for Ice T? He’s a regular on Law and Order, and that’s his credited name. If I would have thought it would be disqualified, I had plenty of time to use a different actor.
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The judges did not count T as a last name. It is a stage name, and not one with a regular first and last name. His name as it is credited uses a hyphen (Ice-T). I would consider it an I word. I guess I can’t speak for the other judges, but this was my reasoning.
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SVU doesn’t hyphenate his name in the credits. It’s just Ice T.
And if we’re talking about stage names, then Clay Tanner (real name: Allen Honaker) isn’t allowable either.
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Hey, I’d give you Ice T. There were plenty of exclusions that shouldn’t have been.
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This isn’t really a criticism of the judges. I just like to complain. Lobbying for answers is one of my favorite parts of scattergories. Y’all did well, since you gave me things to e-mail adobery about today.
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There were not plenty of exclusions that shouldn’t have been. Only 10 of the 200 words were even discounted. Four of which are not even debatable. You could argue your four (wait, you already did that), Kelly’s Ice-T and possibly lettuce.
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Boy did I!
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I was surprised transportation was allowed. I think I am too narrow in my thinking in these games (it burned me in the HR Derby challenge as well).
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I didn’t mean because it was a stage name it was discounted. It is hyphenated and I take it as one word, thus an I word. Mentioning stage name at all was more about…hey, if it was his real name and not hyphenated I guess their family name is T. But the name was created for his career, it’s hyphenated and more akin to a one name star in my eyes.
IMDB and NBC list it hyphenated. His website lists it both ways. Whatever, majority voted it down.
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Brooks, I have to say that I like a lot of your answers.
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Thanks. I’m sure adobery was snickering at my snail’s pace as I plodded my way through.
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