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NeocortX · Daedalian Member

Shut: down, off, up

Dan · Daedalian Member

Reposting for new page.

fadeblue · Daedalian Member

ROCK: bed, post, hard

Dan · Daedalian Member

fadeblue:
You got 2/3.
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marcusI · Daedalian Member

level 1
TURN (down-turn, turn-off, up-turn)

L'lanmal · Daedalian Member

KNOCK: Knockoff, Knock up, Knock down (but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down)?

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Dan: The remaining short words (adverb/prepositions) could go with any number of answers. As a tip for setting these up in the future, try to include at least one more limiting word.

SHOOT: Up, Down, Off
TOUCH: Up, Down, Off
THROW: Up, Down, Off
SET: Up, Down, Off
PLAY: Up, Down, Off

Foggy · In the clouds

TIME: Bed, Post, Hard

Jaguar · Daedalian Member

LAY: Down, Up, Off
WAY: Up Down Off

Foggy · In the clouds

Level 3:
BIG: Apple, Time, ?????

Dan · Daedalian Member

Jaguar:
You got LAY (lay up, lay off, lay down)
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Jaguar · Daedalian Member

OVER: Lay, Fish, Hard
ROCK: Bed, Hard, Super, Lay

Level 3:
CANDY: Rock, Apple, ??

Hagfy · Daedalian Member

MAN: Lay, Post, Super (Fish? Hard??)

Foggy · In the clouds

ROCK: Fish, Bed, Hard

Dan · Daedalian Member

And that'll do it.

Foggy got ROCK (rock hard, bedrock, rockfish)
Hagfy got MAN (layman, postman, superman)

And for all intents and purposes, Jaguar got CANDY (rock candy, candy apple, candyman).
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Jaguar · Daedalian Member

Woohoo.

Here's my first attempt at making one of these. Be kind to me Revenge most foul!

Ache
Agree
Ancient
Back
Ball
Bar
Barrel
Bodied
Cap
Cool
Drawer
Egg
Fall
Folder
Hill
Life
Man
Master
Nail
Natural
Put
Site
Size
Time
Way
Weight
Western

Level 1:
Able - Hagfy(Agree, Bodied, Cap)
History - Dan/Quailman (Ancient, Life, Natural)
Roll - Foggy (Bar, Barrel, Egg)
File - Babylamb (Drawer, Folder, Nail)
Down - Dan (Cool, Fall, Hill)
Off - Dan (Back, Put, Site)

jesus_saves · Almost Right

FREE: FREEfall, FREE time, FREEway (and FREElife, but that's just the company my dad works for)

DOWN: backDOWN, man DOWN, put DOWN
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³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

~Romans 8:38-39

Dan · Daedalian Member

FOOT: (hill, ball, fall)

BTW, thanks everyone who did my puzzle.
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Dan · Daedalian Member

HISTORY: (Anchient, Natural, Westen)
PHILOSOPHY: (Anchient, Natural, Western)
OIL (Barrel, Cap, Site)
BEATER (Egg, Back, Ball)
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Hagfy · Daedalian Member

ABLE: (Agree, Bodied, Cap, Size)
Sorry... I can't limit that one to just three. They all seem equally good.

jesus_saves · Almost Right

Dan · Daedalian Member

BLACK (ball, egg, man)
WHITE (egg, hill, man)
SNOW (cap, ball, man)
HIGH (time, life, bar, ball)
DOWN (cool, put, size, man, hill)

Thanks guys, though it could have used some tweaking, I really liked the word "lay" for layman, but I should have had something like "waylay", or...something else that wasn't as vague as "down" or "off" to make it better. (though, in theory, you could work backwards and get "lay" from level two)
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Quailman · His Postmajesty

HISTORY: Ancient, Natural, Life

Jaguar · Daedalian Member

History (Ancient, Natural, Life) - Dan/Quailman
ABLE (Agree, Bodied, Cap) - Hagfy

Dan, you have a 2/3

Quailman · His Postmajesty

GUN: Barrel, Nail, Man, (Site?)

One Skunk Todd · Smelly Member

WEB: Cool, Master, Site

Dan · Daedalian Member

SNOW (fall, cap, ball, man)
HIGH (way, time, life, bar, ball)
DOWN (time, cool, put, size, hill)
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Jaguar · Daedalian Member

Dan, you've got another 2/3 in there.

BabyLamb · Daedalian Member

High and Down have many possible combinations. For example:

back down, barrel down, cool down, downfall, put-down, downsize, down time, way down, weight down

to name a few...

High isn't much better:

highball, high bar, high man, high time, highway, etc...
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BabyLamb · Daedalian Member

FILE (folder, master, size, drawer, nail)

TOOTH (ache, egg, back)
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jesus_saves · Almost Right

never mind.. i cant read.
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³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

~Romans 8:38-39

Foggy · In the clouds

ROLL: Bar, Barrell, Egg

Marvin · Pseudo-Yank

TOP: drawer, bar, hill
LIMIT: weight, time, size

Quailman · His Postmajesty

FLY: Ball, Bar, Weight

Jaguar · Daedalian Member

Foggy gets Roll (Bar Barrel Egg)
And Babylamb lays claim to FILE (drawer, folder, nail)

Dan · Daedalian Member

HIGH (way, life, ball, put, master)
DOWN (cool, size, hill, back, fall)
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Jaguar · Daedalian Member

And Dan claims DOWN (Cool, Fall, Hill)

Dan · Daedalian Member

WING (man, master, western)
OFF (put, way, back, time, site)
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Jaguar · Daedalian Member

OFF is correct with (Back, Put and Site)

Just a little more to go.

Hagfy · Daedalian Member

HEAD (ache, master, way)?