Words to this 4-letter ladder based on illness Quiz

Clue	Word
✙ Bacteria that may cause sickness ✙
A period of time
A group of players on the same side
A dark greenish-blue colour
Communicate information
✙ Ill people get 'Get ____ soon' cards ✙
✙ May want to write this if terminally ill ✙
✙ What you may take to fight an illness ✙
A cloth spread over a coffin
A bucket
✙ Physical suffering caused by illness ✙
Falling water from the sky
A surprise attack
100 cents in South Africa
A group of musicians
✙ You might be this after radiotherapy ✙
Confident and courageous
✙ A 'common' kind of illness ✙
Rope made from several twisted strands
The centre of an object

Clue	Word
✙ A substance that remedies a disease ✙
Not corrupt
A small opening in the surface of the skin
Strike a position
✙ This may be runny or stuffed when ill ✙
Eat food enthusiastically
Two time Canadian NBA MVP
✙ This may cause skin to itch or swell ✙
Tear down a building in the UK
Move to a higher position
Oriental food, easy to eat a thousand of
A stack of hay
✙ Another word for ill ✙
Go further below the surface
A trigonometric function
✙ What you wish to be when you're sick ✙
Discharge a gun
A river in northern England
Land area equivalent to 0.405 hectare
✙ Dull pain in a part of the body ✙

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Word Ladder: Illness Quiz

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Created Jan 24, 2012 in Just For Fun
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	vikZ:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 04:23 GMT		27 points
	Although Sporcle recommends 1 minute per 10 clues, I think 1 minute per 12 clues is a better guideline. Either way, I have 40 clues which is more than 36. I'd rather more people get all the answers than some people not finishing because they weren't racing through. If you really want to challenge yourself with time, you can always click start and wait a minute before filling out the ladder. Also thanks again Sporcle for the publish!

	jobean82:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 09:25 GMT		17 points
	Got stuck on 'rase' as althought it might be an accepted spelling variant, I've only ever seen it spelled 'raze' (and I'm from the UK). To be fair it would have been easier had I been clever enough to figure out 'rash'.

	Lindsay:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 09:52 GMT		7 points
	Great quiz! If I can be nitpicky, I might recommend changing "bacteria" to either "pathogen" or "organism" in the first question, since germs are not necessarily bacteria and vice versa.

	charlucas:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 11:25 GMT		18 points
	Nosh isn't really to eat enthusiastically. It's to snack.

	bazmerelda:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 14:13 GMT		11 points
	You generally won't be bald after radiotherapy. It only causes hair loss to the treatment area e.g. around the pelvis for an endometrial cancer. It is types of chemotherapy which cause you to lose all your hair. You could only go bald from radiotherapy if it was directly to your scalp for a skin cancer or something. @BrokenBahumat: I know Word Ladder timings are something you feel very strongly about. Have you ever put your suggestions to the admins via the feedback page? I tend to agree that there should be some interim time limits for short quizzes (30s & 90s). I don't tend to agree that time limits should be reduced to ~ 20 clues per minute due to the wide range of people using the site e.g. people who don't speak English as a first language or casual computer users who are hunt and peck typists. Word Ladders are also available on mobile devices. It inevitably takes a bit longer to type on tiny mobile phone keyboards and presumaby it involves a lot more scrolling to see clues.

	TAR2:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 14:36 GMT		3 points
	Too South Africa centric :)

	beletbon:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 14:47 GMT		2 points
	A few suggestions for clue clarity: 1) Agree with bazmerelda that it is chemotherapy, not radiotherapy, that causes hair loss. 2) The "rash" clue was confusing because a rash doesn't CAUSE skin to itch and swell, it IS skin itching and swelling. I was trying to think of a four-letter synonym for allergen, but then realized what you were going for. How about "An itching and swelling of skin"? Or something along those lines? 3) Not sure where you are from, so perhaps the word "oriental" is received differently elsewhere in the world. However, I am a U.S. American, and I flinched at "Oriental food." The word "oriental" is kind of a racial slur here. Might you change it to "East Asian food" or something like that?

	Tony_A:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 15:27 GMT		0 points
	Never knew pall was a cover. I thought it was a palish color like pallid.

	Mimbleton:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 15:43 GMT		3 points
	Nice color scheme and dingbat!

	Pemster:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 21:26 GMT		4 points
	Was 'easy to eat a thousand of' a Mitch Hedberg reference?

	vikZ:	Jan 26th, 2012 at 21:59 GMT		7 points
	@Pemster: Yup! I'm happy someone got that. @Bazmerelda: You're right, I should've used chemotherapy. @Beletbon: Actually no it's not. A rash is a change of skin's colour, appearance, or texture. This may result in itchiness and swelling, but that's a byproduct of a rash and not the rash itself. Also I was unaware that "oriental" was used as a slur in the US (I'm not from there). However, I looked it up and the word is only classified as "sometimes offensive" in the US, and generally not offense elsewhere; and that I'm using the word to describe a dish and not a person; I'm pretty sure the use of the word in the clue isn't offensive. @Mimbleton: Thanks! I was going for a "Red Cross" kind of look, and I think it worked out quite nicely.

	shakescene:	Jan 28th, 2012 at 21:11 GMT		2 points
	After trig function = SINE, my first answer to "what you wish to be when you're sick" was SANE !

	needapausebutton:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 01:57 GMT		3 points
	This quiz is sick! But in that other way that hasn't yet made it into dictionary.com; you know, "cool, awesome, and characterized by a sweet color scheme".

	weaponised:	Jan 30th, 2013 at 02:49 GMT		1 point
	Never heard of a rick before...