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Pord Wuzzle

Each pair of clues refers to a pair of answers that are the same aside from switching the first sound of each word. Typing either answer will get you the point.
Example: "coattail" or "tote kale"
Sounds matter, not spelling
Quiz by kalbahamut
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Last updated: October 20, 2018
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First submittedAugust 28, 2014
Times taken6,869
Average score40.0%
Rating3.26
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Garbage kept as a companion
JetPunk / pet junk
Melee between two women
Obese flying toy
cat fight / fat kite
The caped crusader
Prohibition on floor padding
Batman / mat ban
One who rescues cats from trees
Swamp enthusiast
fireman / mire fan
Pet sustenance
Jack the Ripper
dog food / fog dude
Baseball movie
Shopping complex for rabbits
Moneyball / bunny mall
City of lights
Bueller moving with springy steps
Paris, France / Ferris prance
Heavy, poisonous home
Something kids get checked for in school
lead house / head louse
Very popular sport
Sound of approaching Nazis
football / boot fall
Speedy mode of transportation
Street named for a bottom-heavy fruit
airplane / Pear Lane
First pope and heaven's bouncer
Warming device for acrylics and oils
Saint Peter / paints heater
A good place to keep novels
Safe haven for chefs
book case / cook base
Small boat that pulls larger boats
Tiny hand bag for insects
tugboat / bug tote
Where you plug something in
Result of carrying lemons in pants
power socket / sour pocket
Conflict it's unfair to bring a gun to
An evening for colonial flutes
knife fight / fife night
Headgear for Lady Gaga
Device to treat backpain
meat hat / heat mat
Someone to share the rent
Feeling that Tom and Scratchy experience
housemate / mouse hate
Place to park the space shuttle
a young man with a beer belly
launch pad / paunch lad
Symptom of herpes simplex 1
Purchased half-eaten apple
cold sore / sold core
Racists in Madrid
Command to exile taps and faucets
Spanish bigots / banish spigots
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2014
I think these are much more fun if the clues are trickier and you really have to think about the answers. If you agree, try these harder versions:

Pord Wuzzle (Hard)

Pord Wuzzle (Impossible)

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Level 78
Aug 29, 2014
These were already very hard for me, but very funny too.
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Level 77
Sep 28, 2014
Yep hard enough for me as well. I think as a non-native I experience these as more difficult than natives do. At least I have a hard time to realise something is pronounced roughly the same way even though in writing it's completely different.
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Level 85
Sep 5, 2014
"Knife" doesn't rhyme with "fief".
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2014
I think it depends on who is saying it.
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2014
The way most Americans pronounce the words, "boot" and "foot" also definitely do not rhyme... but is some other accents they do.
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Level 82
Sep 6, 2014
Maybe I could change it to something about a Mayberry marathon.. as in "Fife Night"... Barney Fife, popular character played by Don Knots on the Andy Griffith Show. But that is probably too obscure for clues at this difficulty level. It would go better on one of the harder quizzes I made, even if the rhyming would work better.
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Level 82
Sep 8, 2014
I could also change knife fight to nephyte... one of the tribes mentioned in the Book of Mormon... but that would be similarly obscure.
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Level 37
Sep 28, 2014
fife night, an evening for Colonial flutes
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Level 82
Sep 28, 2014
That's an idea. I might change it after this has rotated off the front page. Think I'll leave it as is for now.
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Level 75
Sep 16, 2014
Loved this quiz. Thanks!
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Level 50
Sep 28, 2014
Tricky but entertaining overall.

Not sure if it is intentional to include half of each pair, but it would be "Tom and Jerry" or "Itchy and Scratchy" for one of the clues if you just meant one duo.

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Level 82
Sep 28, 2014
Tom and Scratchy are cats who are always fighting with mice (Jerry and Itchy). I don't think Jerry and Itchy are self-loathing mice.
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Level 62
Sep 28, 2014
Great and challenging quiz. Pretty happy to get 16. One of the answers doesn't quite fit the rules though: airplane/pear lane, which doesn't involve a switching of the first sounds. air plane would switch to plear ane (meaningless), and pear lane would switch to lair pane (window in a wild animal's home?).
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2014
Why does the "p" and the "l" sound have to go together?
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Level 62
Sep 29, 2014
If not, then there's not really a full switch. At the moment you've moved the p to the front of the word, but haven't switched anything back in its place. "Air" and "Ane" have the same initial sound, so "plair ane" would constitute a full switch, but of course have no meaning. "Lair pane" and "Pair lane" would be a full switch also, to match all the other answers.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2014
I'm using Pig Latin rules in which words that start a vowel can be considered to have null sound.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2014
I guess I could have made the clue something about the glass of the windows on Dr. Evil's home... but...
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Level 62
Sep 29, 2014
Ah, ok! Not counting an initial vowel as a sound makes it work then.
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Level 78
Jun 11, 2020
I agree with kiwi rage here, in that it doesn't quite comply to the rules. That said, I did get that one.

It was the Paris France / Ferris Prance that I didn't get.

Excellent quiz. 19/20 and only one attempt.

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Level 83
Sep 29, 2014
It would be nice if the plurals were a bit more flexible. Kept typing singular versions and not having them get accepted.
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Level 82
Sep 29, 2014
for example?
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Level 65
Jun 24, 2015
Spanish bigots, but that's only one!
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Level 82
Jun 25, 2015
Accepting the singular form doesn't match with the clue, so I don't understand why you would be trying the singular. Is there another case where it doesn't matter?
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Level 38
Sep 29, 2014
Got three in and I was like NOPE I CAN'T DO THIS
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Level 43
Sep 30, 2014
I only made it to the second...
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Level 20
Sep 30, 2014
not fun
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Level 40
Sep 8, 2015
I did so horrible on this quiz but I laughed so hard when I read some of the answers. Bug tote and fog dude had me nearly in tears.. haha
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Level 38
Oct 8, 2016
Quality quiz dude. Have you done every bloody jet punk quiz? I don't think I've seen one without a comment from you
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2016
I know you are exaggerating, but, just to see, I clicked the "random quiz" link above and it took me to "Fun with Unicode," which I have not commented on yet. So, no.
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Level 71
Oct 30, 2016
I spent way too much time trying to come up with flat c... / cat fl... for number 17
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Level 68
May 21, 2017
Quiz wit. Whiz quit.
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Level 80
Dec 5, 2017
Great idea, fun but tricky. "Purchased half-eaten apple" doesn't quite work for "sold core" - I tried "bought core" before I twigged you'd really given the opposite. Maybe "peddled" or "auctioned", or "disposed of half-eaten apple for money"...
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Level 82
Dec 5, 2017
If something is purchased doesn't it necessarily follow that it has also been sold?
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Level 84
Jan 13, 2018
What? You don't park the space shuttle on the launch pad! You... you know... launch it from the launch pad. You park it in the hangar.
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Level 63
Jan 23, 2020
Elon Musk would disagree.
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Level 93
May 22, 2018
i got really stuck on paris, thinking city should be at the end but not knowing a word meaning that beginning with f. I have only ever heard americans/american movies put the country name after the city and don't do it myself so it didn't occur to me. I'm pretty sure they do it because the US has so many copies of place names in different states. We just assume its the original one if you don't say the country so it sounds really odd when it's added in.
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Level 82
May 22, 2018
Interesting observation, and this may be *more* true in the United States where there are, for example, 69 different places called Springfield than it is true some other places... but even outside of the United States I can think of many, many examples where this could be useful. For example, there are at least a dozen cities named Alexandria. There's London, England and London, Ontario. There are lots of place names in the Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Arabic speaking worlds that echo other, older place names.. Santiagos, Toledos, Cordovas, Portos, Pueblos, Medinas, and so on. There are tons of cities named after the same saints in different places. There are multiple Novgorods in Russia.

If you're not in the habit of being specific with your place names maybe you should get in to it! :)

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Level 66
Jan 10, 2019
I think it is common practice that you normally mean the original one. Like when speaking of paris london etc. No need to add anything especially in an international conversation. Only when you live close to a town with a similar name it is usefull to specify.
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Level 44
Oct 29, 2018
These types of things could be called "spoonerisms"

These are described in this epic video, starting at 5:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hup_8uDXJx8

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Level 58
Dec 19, 2018
I think this is the best wordplay comedy sketch that I've come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw
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Level 32
Nov 28, 2019
Great quiz, Kalbahamut! You do great quizzes that I really enjoy!!
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2020
Some of these were really funny! I deliberately tried not to read them cause I would get too distracted. So hoped (and worked for most I got) I could get them by just reading one part. And definitely not try to visualize it ;)
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Level 66
Feb 13, 2020
Wouldn't pear lanes become lear panes ? This one doesn't work imo. Otherwise you could make it "lanpear es" in theory (I know the words dont exist) if you can take off a random amount of letters from the beginning and add none to the other word. No switching involved
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Level 82
Feb 13, 2020
Pig latin rules. Addressed above.
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Level 41
Nov 17, 2020
Good quiz. The computer made by Mike came first / A travesty to ask for steak cooked this way :-)
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Level 68
Aug 9, 2021
Great fun, and very pleased with 19/20. Would never have got the Lady Gaga one as I didn't understand the reference. But now I do - more knowledge courtesy of JetPunk! (Not quite sure how useful this particular knowledge is, but you never know when it might come in handy...!)

Do I dare tackle the harder ones now?!

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Level 60
Jan 8, 2022
Ferris and Paris don't rhyme in most (or all?) accents outside North America, so that was a really hard one for this Australian/British couple!
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Level 83
Jan 14, 2022
I enjoyed this. Just note that one of the words in the example shows up as an answer. That's unusual for this site and you may want to consider changing that
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Level 67
Feb 13, 2022
Love this quiz thanks