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Can you name these connected* compound words?

Enter a word in the box below
Correctly named words will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Henry Fieldstone
*NOTE: each answer is in turn an additional clue for the next answer in the quiz, for example, if the first answer were 'overpay' the next answer in order would begin with PAY...(such as payday)

You have 6 minutes to guess after you click the button below.

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Hint	Word
plant growing building
chores
tireless employee
brush material
tight bend
children's spinner
hospital mobility device
committee head
beat up
mustache type
mixologist
novice

Hint	Word
page end citation
laptop computer
avid reader
bitter herb
instrument type
unexpected money
contingency plan
tennis stroke
pretty
to a limited extent
ya know, like...
not deciduous

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There are 90 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	Adrian:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	22 points
	Every now and then it's good to have these fun quizzes that are fairly easy to get 100% on just to relax after trying to name every island nation in the world.

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	MovieDynamic:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	1 point
	Oh I finally got it.

	russl:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	7 points
	hilariously fun

	Klingsta:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	8 points
	awesome!

	MovieDynamic:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 08:53 GMT	3 points
	Oh well, I only ended up getting 6/24. I'll come back to this one later.

	Fawkes:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	4 points
	Third one tripped me up. I had to move forward to mustache type and work backwards. Ended up with 24/24. Fun quiz!

	MrCustomer:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	4 points
	Clever, that!

	starjumper:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:10 GMT	6 points
	More of a puzzle than a quiz, but I enjoyed it and hope to see m like it.

	starsaphire:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:14 GMT	4 points
	Awesome! 24/24; fun quiz!

	bluesixstring:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:15 GMT	15 points
	What a great quiz. Truly rewards those who read directions! I had all but given up on a few of these and then glanced at the top of the page! Wonderful.

	jaspa:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:35 GMT	32 points
	I think I need to see a psychiatrist. I had man___ and needed a word for "beat up." God help me, I typed manslaughter.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:47 GMT	1 point
	Probably the easiest quiz I've done here - fun to have one I knew all the answers to.

	Garfinkus:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:50 GMT	7 points
	haha Jaspa, that's awesome. Maybe just some sleep is needed? I loved this 'quiz'. It's a different type of thinking than most other quizzes on here. Good job!

	weizenugb:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:55 GMT	7 points
	This is a really different quiz for this site and a really great idea. Thank you very much Henry Fieldstone.

	brianc:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 09:57 GMT	4 points
	first one tripped me up, but i was able to skip through the middle and then fill in all the blanks. this was good, more please :)

	Kelly:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 10:09 GMT	5 points
	by the time i got workhorse it was too late =( would have had em all otherwise

	MaxQ:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 10:38 GMT	4 points
	Probably doesn't have much replay value, but oodles of fun the first time around, great quiz.

	TallKool1:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 10:57 GMT	5 points
	I'm not a detractor, but is "handsome" a compound word??

	Bethannie:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 11:27 GMT	3 points
	Terrific fun! A nice, gentle start to the day! Easy enough to get them all - if you read the directions first for the BIG hint!

	runandjump:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 12:14 GMT	4 points
	great game, more of these please!

	davebesag:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 12:43 GMT	3 points
	Couldn't get number three or four but got the rest.

	davidr:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 13:12 GMT	0 points
	Nicely done. There are a few dubious ones (`bartender' could be `barman' from the clue) and some that aren't really compounds (the two with `some') but the cyclical nature of the quiz makes up for that. A more serious complaint is that `manhandle' doesn't mean `beat up': to manhandle is to grab and physically move somebody which need not cause any injury; to beat up is, well, to beat them, necessarily causing injury.

	fishmonkey:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 13:39 GMT	7 points
	I didn't get bartender, being from the uk - i just had barman stuck in my head. I think bartender is more common use in US? Agree with Davidr that the 'some' words in this aren't compound words in the same sense that the rest are. Enjoyed it nevertheless. Now, back to those island nations...

	onetheta:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 14:31 GMT	4 points
	good quiz - and I learnt a new word too - mixologist!

	AyEhnDee:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 14:33 GMT	4 points
	very fun.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 15:35 GMT	3 points
	This was a lot of fun. Would not have got them without the "follow-on" clues. But after that, 'twas easy. Never heard of "wormwood" though...

	Distiller:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 15:47 GMT	4 points
	Really funny, 15/24. More quizzes like this, please.

	sosyndicate:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 15:47 GMT	5 points
	This was really fun! A+

	GeordieGuitarist:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 15:54 GMT	3 points
	Never heard a novice be called a tenderfoot before.

	Booger:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 15:58 GMT	4 points
	Very fun and very creative. Took me a minute to see the key clue at the top in the NOTE. I also liked how the first clue matched up with the last clue.

	MrEnglishman:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 16:30 GMT	4 points
	22/24 - just couldn't find the last half of workhorse and the first half of horsehair. Easy once you've seen it. Good fun indeed.

	Jeff:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 16:36 GMT	4 points
	Loved it - nice change of pace.

	Ribhump:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 17:14 GMT	3 points
	great fun. and love that one helps the other (although does make it considerably easier, not that that's a big complaint). Did take me a min or so to work out what to do though. maybe it's worth starting with a completed answer, like, well 'evergreen' :S (and yes, it's quiet a nice touch that is a cyclical quiz)

	tommy2009:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 17:23 GMT	3 points
	Cool- got the final one with 10 seconds to go! Now that's what I call excitement... compared to the rest of my day at work anyway...

	Capo:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 17:26 GMT	3 points
	i liked it, i hope more of these connected puzzles make their way on here!

	montecarlo:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 17:41 GMT	19 points
	for novice, i was like, "greenhorn greenhorn greenhorn. oh snap, im going to make a comment about how this should be accepted as an alternate answer!!!" then two minutes later i noticed, "hey thats neat, the second half of this word is the same as the first half of the next word. what a coincidence." ... then i read the rules. NOTE TO SELF: READ RULES BEFORE TAKING QUIZ. GREENHORN IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATE.

	Scooby Doo:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	3 points
	Holy Sh*T, I finally got 100% on one of these. I'm going to work on going to restroom all by myself tomorrow! This was a good one!

	R:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 18:02 GMT	2 points
	Still quite a hard quiz for the non-native speakers.

	cassykins:	Feb 11th, 2009 at 18:19 GMT	1 point
	I'm glad I'm not the only one who had trouble on 3 and 4. I kept thinking of boar bristle, but moving backwards that didn't do the trick.