MM Links April [Week 2]

lysander | 08:45 Sat 12th Apr 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Before the advent of television, I suppose many families played cards as a major pastime. In my case, my mother, her five sisters and their husbands all played on family visits and even on picnics. Naturally, I picked up the "habit". Whilst living in London in the Sixties, I regularly played Canasta with my husband and two friends. The two men worked long unsocial hours and money was short, so whenever their "off duty" times coincided, we often played cards.

A few years ago, in yet another attempt to keep my brain active during my autumn years, I took Bridge lessons. I enjoyed the classes and playing with the other learners, but struggled when two friends took me to their club (one of these will be 100 years of age next month and still a superb player). I often try the bidding puzzle in the Telegraph article just to keep my hand in.

Once a week, I join friends to play a game we call "Liverpool", a form of Rummy. Naturally, my own family enjoy playing and my 10-year-old grandson is a fanatic, moving on from "Snap" and "Donkey" to most of the games that I play. It must be the genes! My mother always said that playing cards was a lesson for life. You learnt to make the most of what you were dealt, to both win and lose with equal grace and it improved your mental arithmetic as well as your social skills!

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Now down to business. For the everyday running of MM, I will again follow the usual rule on word length as introduced by crofter. Each of the pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front or behind my challenge word! The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when crofter will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past.

My very first set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am. Happy Linking and Good Luck to you all.

paulineward

Games people play?..hmm been chatting with Crofter???
Plug for Dragonfly 3??

Strix

Oh, crikey, cards (see 21ac in today's DT cryptic) I can hardly play snap let alone any of those mentioned by Lysander.

paulineward

Now why did I think Strix would be a card shark!!!???

jan1956

bet he's bluffing Pauline!

Strix

Pauline,
I am not some kind of FISH - it's card-sharp :-))

lysander

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I, Lady Lysander, challenge you to predict my second set of four links based on the theme:

Well Suited!

CLUB
DIAMOND
HEART
SPADE

Good Luck everybody!