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5-Letter Word Chain Game #1

For each hint, enter a 5-letter word. The last letter of this word will be the first letter of the next word.
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Last updated: April 24, 2017
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First submittedOctober 28, 2014
Times taken107,050
Average score75.0%
Rating4.26
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Hint
Answer
Capital of Japan
Tokyo
Academy Award
Oscar
Person from the Italian capital
Roman
After sunset, before sunrise
Night
Type of partner dance
Tango
Frequently
Often
Add "ia" to this country's name to
get a different country
Niger
French for "red"
Rouge
Additional
Extra
Japanese animation
Anime
Press this key to get a new line
Enter
One way to cook meat
Roast
Cheers!
Toast
Sight, taste, smelling, hearing, _____
Touch
You can get this from a bee
Honey
What a 90 year old was 70 years ago
Young
Hint
Answer
___ Domestic Product
Gross
You can sit on it, but you can't lean back
Stool
Because it's very humourous!
Laugh
Not light
Heavy
Without this, no bread
Yeast
Up for like, down for dislike
Thumb
Nothing
Blank
Japanese letters adapted from Chinese
Kanji
Gandhi's country
India
Hammer, ___, and stirrup in your ear
Anvil
Fortunate
Lucky
Delicious
Yummy
Country in the Middle East
Yemen
Gasses such as helium, neon,
argon, etc...
Noble
One who is barred from his home country
Exile
Homophone of ate
Eight
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Level 63
Mar 12, 2015
While the following answer to 'nohing' must start with a K, I think it is a bad hint because unlike many of the other choices, there are MANY words that begin with the letter 'b' and mean nothing. Bupkis, barren, bare, etc. I went through all three of those answers and several more before I got blank from working backwards from the succeeding answers.
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Level 57
Mar 12, 2015
Well, none of those have 5 letters, so that would rule those out.
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Level 82
Mar 12, 2015
bunk starts with b and ends with k but doesn't have 5 letters, either.
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Level 84
May 14, 2017
So you couldn't come up with a 5-letter word that started with "B" and was synonymous with "nothing". In other words, you drew a...(wait for it)....blank?
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
his/her mind went blank obviously
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Level 75
Dec 25, 2020
I don't think blank = nothing.

They can both be adjectives, but with different meanings ("a nothingblank job" / "a blanknothing piece of paper").

Other than that, blank is a noun or a verb, and nothing is a pronoun or adverb.

I did get it though, because they are very similar.

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Level 75
May 8, 2020
I couldn't think of the blankety-blank word.
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Level 45
May 15, 2020
Kept trying bleak
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Level 79
Jun 7, 2022
Suggest the clue should be rephrased: "To contain nothing" because this has the same meaning as blank. However, nothing on it's own doesn't mean the same thing as blank.
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Level 57
Feb 21, 2024
I agree. I think a better clue would be empty page. Or dummy round. Or anything more descriptive than 'nothing.'
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Level 69
Mar 12, 2015
I thought hickey was written hicky; and you can get that from a bee as well in a way (I know, they don't bite, they sting, but it would be a fun answer that wouldve fit as well).
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Level 69
Dec 12, 2015
If you're getting hickeys from bees, you really ought to get a hobby. Or a girlfriend.
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Level 43
May 14, 2017
Riggidy rekt m8
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Level 64
May 14, 2017
lol
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
I first thought,well you can get stung and you get a bump then thought of hive and typed hives haha then I thought ow no, that is connected with bees but in a different way. I was only thinking of what happens/what you get when you get stung. And looking for a word for that. (Then is was like...d'ohhh ofcourse !)
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Level 82
Mar 12, 2015
I was drawing a blank for nothing, but got it eventually.
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Level 69
Dec 12, 2015
Every time I like something on this site, it always turns out it was you who wrote it, kalbahamut!
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Level 39
Mar 12, 2015
Aren't the gases also Inert?
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Level 55
Mar 12, 2015
... and the word has to chain with the answer before and the answer after, which Inert doesn't.
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Level 57
Mar 12, 2015
Can you accept return for enter
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Level 55
Mar 12, 2015
six letters, doesn't begin with 'e' or end with 'r'.
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Level 45
Mar 13, 2015
Got Kanji right away... was surprised it was the lowest guessed. I thought it was more widely known than that.
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Level 54
Mar 13, 2015
I had just never had to spell it before haha. After trying konji and kongi, I second-guessed my answer, but figured "third time's a charm" and luckily kanji was correct.
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Level 77
Mar 13, 2015
Tried hives so many times for the bee clue
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Level 65
Sep 24, 2019
Who gets honey from a bee? Maybe a bee hive, but not a single bee.
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Level 75
Dec 25, 2020
I thought that too...!
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Level 16
Mar 5, 2021
yeah you can
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Level 16
Mar 5, 2021
im pretty sure
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Level 16
Mar 5, 2021
maybe
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Level 62
Aug 25, 2023
Maybe should say "bees" instead of "a bee" ...
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Level 32
Mar 14, 2015
i love such quizzes
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Level 32
Aug 18, 2015
tasty for delicious?
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Level 35
Feb 4, 2016
Doesn't start with a "y"...
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Level 38
Nov 15, 2015
japanese helped me for the kanji!!
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Level 65
Aug 12, 2018
makes sense
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Level 47
Apr 1, 2016
didn't get thumb anvil or heavy. i was trying to think of ark *face palm*
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Level 30
Nov 20, 2016
I kept thinking that the bee clue was hives!
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Level 58
Dec 11, 2016
Messed myself up by not reading the description "last letter, first letter." That would have helped.
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Level 44
Jan 5, 2017
This was a really good quiz!
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Level 47
Jan 25, 2017
for not light i just kept on entering dark and wondering why it wasn't working! *face palm*
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Level 93
Jan 17, 2019
yeah i was thinking along those lines, maybe change the clue to burdensome?
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Level 51
Mar 24, 2017
Cool quiz, 3.42 left, more please
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Level 63
Apr 19, 2017
For the Middle Easy Country one can you accept Syria.
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Level 61
May 14, 2017
Only if you can get it to begin with a "y" and end with an "n".
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Level 48
Apr 19, 2017
Who would like to be next on the list of people who ignored the instructions?
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Level 68
Apr 19, 2017
Please accept "Hefty" for "Not Light". It fits, too!
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Level 47
Apr 20, 2017
Okay, hefty will work if the Quizmaster approves this. (Hopefully, it should.)
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
Husky? haha ( I had heavy right away, but after reading the above comment this one comes to mind and it works too, as in heavily built)
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Level 72
Aug 25, 2023
This reminds me of the original "Hairspray," when Tracy gets a job modeling clothes for Hefty Hideaway, "house of fashion for the ample woman."
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Level 42
May 14, 2017
Totally thought of rouge... xD not
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Level 52
May 18, 2017
I GOT THEM ALL SO EASILY IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!
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Level 32
Jul 13, 2017
For country in the middle east, other possible answers could be

Syria

Qatar

Egypt (technically)

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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
none of them start with Y and end with N, so no.
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Level 37
Oct 5, 2017
Do any of these begin with a "Y"? And, technical Egypt is in Africa!

G'head Guizz Master, delete away

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Level 56
Nov 20, 2017
Great concept! Fun quiz!
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Level 58
Jan 13, 2018
Can you accept weighty instead of heavy? My wife hates it when I call her heavy, but she doesn't mind weighty too much, because I'm always late
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Level 49
Sep 20, 2018
Thought myself clever for trying expatriate for the barred from one's country since it fits, but it's incorrect since they just live abroad. Bummer.
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Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
and has a tad more letters...
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2019
yay, I got them all :) 2+mins left even. not often I get 100% second time this week now. I was actually surprised at the average scored. usually I am right around or slightly above average. But the average for this one is quite a bit lower (24/32) so I wonder what the reason is. If/why it was extra hard for others or less so for me. It is not a specefic subject I am good at or something. So the difference with the average public surprised me (more than my personal score)

Ah... come to think of it, after reading the comments. Maybe most didnt read instructions? About it being a chain. Not that for many I needed the letters. But still. (tokyo, tango (several 5 letter ones), blank, kanji, and yemen (as others have stated, not the only 5 letter option). But well then after some tries I still would ve gotten tango and yemen. (and good chance for tokyo)

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Level 79
Sep 25, 2019
I feel like 'empty' or 'unmarked' would be a better clue for 'blank.' Blank is usually an adjective, so having the noun 'nothing' as the clue can be misleading.
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Level 78
Oct 26, 2021
I feel anything would have been better than 'nothing' [pun?]
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Level 60
Aug 27, 2023
It would be entertaining if Blank's clue was literally blank.
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Level 62
Oct 25, 2019
United Arab Emirates is a country in the Middle East! This quiz was too 5 letter-centric. Boo!
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2019
Is 'humorous' intentionally spelt wrong?
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
'Humorous' is spelt wrong.
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Level 89
May 8, 2020
I thought that was the British spelling, but apparently it's spelled the same both ways.
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Level 75
Dec 25, 2020
Almost time for another reminder Jack...
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Level 60
Aug 27, 2023
I'll do it. Humorous, not humourous (for any region).
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Level 76
Nov 17, 2019
"Laugh" could be "Funny", "Yeast" could be "Wheat", "Blank" could be "Zilch", "Yemen" could be Egypt, Syria, or Qatar. There need to be more options. Edit: I forgot to read the description. Forget everything I just said
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Level 79
Apr 3, 2020
Indeed.
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Level 51
Mar 19, 2020
I didn't get heavy because I was trying to think of a synonym for dark, or something like that. I can't believe my own stupidity sometimes.
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Level 19
Apr 23, 2020
You're not the only one.
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Level 68
May 8, 2020
I failed that one for the same reason, but I think the clue should be changed.
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Level 19
Apr 23, 2020
Can you please accept 'bleak' for 'nothing'?
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Level 77
May 3, 2020
I didn't get Kanji because I thought it was spelled Kangi. :(
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Level 67
May 8, 2020
Only missed heavy, cuz I was interpreting it as "light/dark" so yeah
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Level 45
May 9, 2020
I didn't get anvil because... I really have no idea what the clue means.

After checking : okay, I had no idea there were bones named that way. Pretty weird.

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Level 57
May 9, 2020
it's spelled "gases" not "gasses".
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Level 58
Aug 22, 2020
What? For a start, yes...the plural of gas is gasses, secondly spelt is spelt spelt, not spelled. Where did you go to school?
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Level 84
Aug 27, 2020
Spelled and spelt are both correct.
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Level 76
Aug 25, 2023
As are both "gases" and "gasses."
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Level 31
Nov 13, 2020
Delicious- tasty

bread- flour

ate- crate

humorous - funny

gasses- inert

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Level 63
Nov 15, 2020
None of those fit the word chain. Also, crate and ate aren't homophones.
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Level 62
Feb 11, 2021
Blank is an interesting one, I would have never guessed it with the clue nothing. If I could make a suggestion it would be that "empty" or "left out" may be a better clue.
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Level 90
Dec 18, 2021
... or "_____"
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Level 88
Sep 20, 2021
I kept putting "hives" for "honey" lol.
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Level 78
Dec 25, 2021
these clues are so awkwardly written
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Level 63
Jul 4, 2022
You can lean back on a stool. There's a good chance you won't remain on the stool, but you can give it a shot.
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Level 80
Mar 2, 2023
This was exactly what I was thinking when I answered that question.
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Level 32
Oct 28, 2022
well howdy love. THanks for the quiz but I had a small correction (hate to be THAT HUY) but did you know? that many common breads such as sour dough don't require yeast making your quiztion incorrect (see what I did there). Thanks always love
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Level 40
Nov 13, 2022
Tell me why i said jesus on the bread part
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Level 84
May 25, 2023
The 'exile' clue could be worded better. Exile is 'the state of being barred' from one's native country (noun), or 'to expel and bar someone' from their country (verb). Such a person would be an expatriate, or expat.
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Level ∞
Jun 10, 2023
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exile#Noun

"Someone who is banished from their home or country."

Furthermore, an expat is not an exile. An expat can return to their home country while an exile cannot.

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Level 78
Oct 4, 2023
Was looking for this, assumed I was wrong but have also never actually heard it used in this sense. Interesting!
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Level 43
Jul 13, 2023
31/32. When I ran out of time to get anvil, the realization really hit my head...
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Level 72
Aug 25, 2023
The notion that Romans signaled disfavor--or, more to the point, death--for losing gladiators by giving a "thumbs down" is due to a mistranslation of the phrase "pollice verso" ("with the thumb turned") used to describe the gesture made by the Emperor (or whoever was presiding over the contests) to call for killing a gladiator. That gesture involved pointing the thumb at one's own chest--a far more evocative way to tell whoever was waiting for instructions to finish off the loser than turning one's thumb down would have been.

But a popular Nineteenth Century French painter thought "verso" meant "turned down" and produced a painting showing that. Too late to undo that mistake now, not that historical accuracy matters all that much in this context.

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Level 60
Aug 25, 2023
Nan bread, pitta bread, sourdough? But in the UK, 'eight' ain't no homonym for 'ate'. We pronounce 'ate' as 'ett'.
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Level 53
Aug 25, 2023
I got everything but kanji and blank :(
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Level 67
Aug 25, 2023
Not all breads require yeast
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Level 34
Oct 20, 2023
Not me putting '20' instead of 'young'...
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Level 63
Oct 29, 2023
There is a reason why "blank" as the answer to nothing is the least guessed - it just doesn't follow. Either choose a different clue, or a different word, because what you have got is nonsensical.
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Level 43
Jan 30, 2024
"Swing" works as a clue for the stool clue but i know it doesnt fit in cause of the next clue so maybe make the clue more presice ?