Water Chance

[Doom]

Evening all,

This is possibly the most trivial thing to ever to be posted on here.

Someone at work showed me a "Link Word" quiz as she couldnt get the last answer.

The link words are "Water" and "Chance". So just to clarify, you need to think of a word which can be after water, and before chance. The answer is 4 letters. All three words do not have to link.

For example if your link words are "Fight" and "Sandwich" the answer could be "Club".

My area manager at work is getting headaches and having nightmares over it (not really but she won't stop asking me if I have found an answer yet) so I thought I'd ask the forum here. There must be someone here with a mind for that sort of thing.

Thanks for trying,

Sorry for wasting your time :)

[bobdadruma]

POOL! When you buy a lottery ticket you are taking a chance in a pool of ticket holders
Took me three mins! LOL

[GRUNTERSDAD]

It has to make other words. Waterpool ? Poolchance?
Like fightclub and clubsandwich

[bobdadruma]

OH! This changes everything! I never played this game before.

[bobdadruma]

Open water and open chance?
fast water and fast chance
slow water and slow chance
high water and high chance Ding!!!!!! Winer!!!
10 mins
Pool water and pool chance also works by the way. One could say, "Do you want to buy a Pool Chance?" when speaking of football gambling! Of corse Pool Water! Ding!!! Winer!!!
Grunt, You owe me a snare drum for that one! LOL

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Bob the missing word has to go after the first word and before the second word.

Water_______ and ________chance

[bobdadruma]

Oh Don't get technical!
Im just kidding by the way in case you didn't realize!

[jonescrusher]

That's a noodle scratcher. The best I can come up with is 'main', although 'main chance' seems unlikely.

Should this be approached literally or cryptically?

[bobdadruma]

Water spot and spot chance? They may say spot chance somewhere in the world?
Yanks Spot Chance to win series. News headline

[bobdadruma]

Water mark and Mark Chance. I went to school with Mark. I dated his sister for a while.

[bobdadruma]

Water Foil and Foil Chance.
A water foil is a type of a boat. Yanks foil chance of winning.

[bobdadruma]

Water Foul and Foul Chance.
Water foul = ducks in water

[Doom]

Jonescrusher - I think its literal. The other examples in the same quiz were.

Bobdadruma - you crack me up. :)

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Water Foul and Foul Chance.
Water foul = ducks in water
Fowl................................Now I won't sleep tonight with this silly thing.

[con struct]

"Main."

Water main.

Main chance.

Anyway, it works.

[Deltadrummer]

Water remote chance we have of finding an answer.

[bobdadruma]

I think that someone put a wrong word in the puzzle by mistake. It must be an error.
Plus there are only so many four letter words that you can say on DW!

[con struct]

I think that someone put a wrong word in the puzzle by mistake. It must be an error.
Plus there are only so many four letter words that you can say on DW!

That's what makes it easier, the fact that the missing word has only four letters. "Main" works because it has only four letters and it makes sense with both water and chance.

Google "water main" and "main chance." It works.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! It's my final answer, and I still have all my life-lines!

Will we be notified of the correct answer when it's revealed?

[Deltadrummer]

I think 'spot' works too, no? You can have a 'spot chance,' can't you?

[bobdadruma]

I think 'spot' works too, no? You can have a 'spot chance,' can't you?Thats my vote for best one also. See post #9.

[Doom]

Con Struct - I thought of "Main" too but "Main Chance"?

Yes it is a sentence but it doesnt work the same way "Water Main" does if you see what I mean. Likewise "Spot Chance".

"Water Tiger" and "Tiger Chance" are just as good.

The answer hopefully will be like a eureka moment.

[joeysnare]

maybe its more philosophical, water = life = chance

[joeysnare]

or perhaps water mist chance , i know its a pun im really breaking my brain here lol

[Derek]

or perhaps water mist chance , i know its a pun im really breaking my brain here lol

My favorite answer so far.

[bobdadruma]

Are you sure that four letters was the right amount for the key word?
couldn't it have been a type-o?
Water sporting and sporting chance!
Im still thinking about this!

[Tropellor]

base?

water base - base chance

??

[Pollyanna]

How about "fair"?

Water fair ... fair chance.

[PQleyR]

There seem to be brand new ideas being created as a side-effect. Isn't the human imagination a marvellous thing?

Unfortunately mine can't come up with anything right now. Hmm.

[larryace]

All I can say is thanks a lot. I have used up more energy trying to get this thing and I CAN"T LET IT GO!

Water pool? Pool Chance? that's the best I got...for now...

[nicotine25]

What about drop? water drop....drop chance?....is there such a thing as a drop chance?

[nicotine25]

or how about rain? water rain...rain chance?

[PQleyR]

Seems like more things have water before them than chance after them. Maybe the way to go about this is to think of things that fit with chance first, and then see if they fit with water.

[larryace]

It must be impossible, because I can't figure it out. :) (JK)
I think some sick twisted individual put this there to torture people like me. There is no link word!

[jonescrusher]

Doom, for God's sake get hold of the answer and put Larry out of his misery...

[Pollyanna]

Don't be silly. The answer is "fair".

"water fair" - a phrase search on Google yields 26,000 entries

"fair chance" - a phrase search on Google yields over 200,000 entries

"Water fair" isn't very satisfying but that happens in these things at times. Same with crosswords. You get answers where you think they have got to be kidding.

Drummers!

:)

[nhzoso]

What about

Waterless
Less Chance

or

Waterside
Side Chance

[Doom]

Haha, this is ridiculous.

I have asked all the smartest people I know and I can't get an answer.

Sporting was the best so far but its not four letters.

I might be able to find out the magazine which this was in and write to them. :)

[larryace]

Just to complicate things, suppose it was a typo like water change

[Doom]

Well we found out what magazine it was from and got the issue with the answers.

I'm sorry to say the official answer is "Main".

Doesnt seem to work for me but what can I say.

Thanks for all your guesses.

[jonescrusher]

Rather unsatisfying, but i'll take the honours for the correct answer - don't post another unless you're in possession of the answer ;)

[Doom]

Haha, I won't

I did have another go on this weeks quiz but got them all so its all good.

Cheers again

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Well we found out what magazine it was from and got the issue with the answers.

I'm sorry to say the official answer is "Main".

Doesnt seem to work for me but what can I say.

Thanks for all your guesses.


Please tell me what a main chance is. Like a "club Sandwich"???

[Pollyanna]

Main chance isn't a term, just that the two words are commonly put together in sentences. Still, a Google phrase search for "main chance" yields 104,000 entries so fair nuff.

The answer was always going to be a bit blah.

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Well I stand corrected and will admit it. The first entry in Google defines Main Chance and the main issue.

[con struct]

That's what makes it easier, the fact that the missing word has only four letters. "Main" works because it has only four letters and it makes sense with both water and chance.

Google "water main" and "main chance." It works.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! It's my final answer, and I still have all my life-lines!

Will we be notified of the correct answer when it's revealed?

And I still have all my life-lines!

[bobdadruma]

Do you think that there will ever be a true, all agreed resolve for this?

[Deltadrummer]

Yes, both you and Conrad came up with right answers. Congratulations. Take a bow, end of story. We'll send you both a coupon to get a Starbuck's coffee for only 5 dollars.

[bobdadruma]

I'm still not totally convinced Ken! There is this shadow of doubt hiding in the bushes!

[BattleArmor]

Yes, both you and Conrad came up with right answers. Congratulations. Take a bow, end of story. We'll send you both a coupon to get a Starbuck's coffee for only 5 dollars.

Thats half a cup!!

Now I will enter 20 characters in fury!

[con struct]

We'll send you both a coupon to get a Starbuck's coffee for only 5 dollars.

Rats. I hate Starbuck's coffee.

[bobdadruma]

Rats. I hate Starbuck's coffee.Its regular Duncan Doughnuts mud or nothing for me!

[con struct]

Its regular Duncan Doughnuts mud or nothing for me!

I agree. I can't get a decent regular old cup of coffee in Starbuck's, and I have zero interest in the fancy stuff they have there.

A decent cup of joe from the Waffle House, something like that, now that's coffee.

[Deltadrummer]

I'm still not totally convinced Ken! There is this shadow of doubt hiding in the bushes!

If it's any consolation Bob, I liked your answer better than the official answer.

You guys have learned the lesson of every game show contestant immemorial. You mean I actually have to take this crap home AND pay taxes on it. :)

[Pollyanna]

Conrad, you were beaten to the punch by jonescrusher so you miss out on the Starbucks coffee, lad. There is no second prize here. Jones pressed the buzzer first!

Apparently main chance is an old term:

Meaning: The most important issue.

Origin: We now use this phrase as part of 'an eye for the main chance', referring to someone who is ambitious and eager to promote their own advancement. The first known use of it in print is in John Lyly's, Euphues, the anatomy of wyt, 1579:

"Either content yourself with my choice, or lette mee stande to the maine chaunce."

Shakespeare used it soon afterwards in Henry VI Part 2, 1597:

WARWICK:
There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased;
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
And by the necessary form of this
King Richard might create a perfect guess
That great Northumberland, then false to him,
Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;
Which should not find a ground to root upon,
Unless on you.

Kind of obscure, but more valid than I thought.

[GRUNTERSDAD]

Its regular Duncan Doughnuts mud or nothing for me!


Dunkin' Donuts. Be sure to remember. This could be the next quiz.

[larryace]

What a lame answer, main. I don't care if Shakespeare used it, it didn't catch on.
What a lame prize too.
Let's start a new one.
The words are....

Drum
Flight

or

Land
Guitar

or

Money
It


or

Elvin
Crusher

or

Delta
World

[larryace]

and the prize is....A BRAND NEW CAR!
show it to 'em Johnny!

[Pollyanna]

Drum SOLO Flight

Land ? Guitar

Money BEAT It

Elvin JONES Crusher

Delta DRUMMER World

Missed out on the car!

[larryace]

Too bad Polly but you get a consolation prize!

AN OLD USED CAR!

Show it to her Johnny!

For your driving pleasure you will recieve a 1946 Studebaker with a cracked block and head gasket problems! You will be the envy of all your loser friends when you come sputtering up the street in one of these. also included is a colony of ants that turned the front bench seat into their home base!

[con struct]

Okay, here's one:

Peanut Seats

Middle word is seven letters.

[larryace]

OK now it's time for Round Two where the words get harder but the prizes stay the same!

The words are:

Table
Grass

or


Chair
Road


or


Whiskey
House


or



Funky
Soup


or


Bowling
Stripe

[larryace]

Okay, here's one:

Peanut Seats

Middle word is seven letters.

GALLERY!


exactly 20 characters!

If you're counting my characters, you should be working stick control instead

[con struct]

GALLERY!


exactly 20 characters!

If you're counting my characters, you should be working stick control instead

You got it! Now let me have a go at yours...


Funky Chicken Soup

Bowling Pin Stripe


The first three are giving me some trouble.

Oh, and you forgot to tell us how many letters.

[larryace]

OK
Table Grass, 3 letters
Chair, Road, 4 letters
Whiskey, House, 6 letters.
And still left on the board by Pollyanna is
Land, Guitar, 5 letters

[con struct]

Ah! Land Slide Guitar.

Still working on the others.

[larryace]

Ah! Land Slide Guitar.

Still working on the others.


Ding Ding Ding Ding!

[con struct]

Table Leg Grass?

Chair Back Road?

[larryace]

Table Leg Grass?

Chair Back Road?

Although chair back road technically works, it's not what I had in mind

I'm not divulging

[Pontiadict]

How about,Table Saw Grass,Chair Rail Road,Whiskey Porter House