Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 2

Chance is a card in the board game Monopoly.

What is monopoly?

'Unfortunate' is good word as it recognises all human affairs are partly caused by chance.

What is chance?

It’s when you’ve unfortunately fallen in the water where two rivers join.

What is unfortunate

In-Vader is to be influenced by a powerful lord of the Dark Side

What is influenced?

It was what the Romans were trying to do to the ancient Scottish tribes (Picts) who were unhappy with invaders at their border.

What is invader

Isn't that what Pirates did on the high seas when they attacked ships by pretending to be friendly then when they got close hoisted their flag depicting a skull and cross bones?

What's depicting?

Degree is like skullduggery but perhaps less serious. What is skullduggery?

Grand children, are polite, inquisitive , intelligent, beautiful and sporty. We all have them to some degree.

What is ?degree

Dere are de fine words and de not so fine words. We don't want to hear de grandchildren use de not so fine words.

What are grandchildren?

The meaning of 'predicament ' is how the word is used.

Can any word be absolutely defined?

Virtue is when you are in a predicament and you ask yourself "Where to next?"

What is a predicament?

Merit is the quality of being good or worthy, much beloved of contemporary virtue signallers

Whay is virtue?

I've two longhandled loppers in my shed which are now useless and don't now merit the label 'tool'.

What is merit?

I've a small kitchen tool that audibly pops hard to open lids by releasing the vacuum.

What is a tool?

A couple is when you share a cuppa with a friend who popped in.

What is popped?

Yous two is referring to a couple of people.

What is a couple?

I like doing housework and wish I had the strength I used to.

What does it feel like to be "used to"?

Lost means hopeless. Like the lost cause of trying to get a man to do his share of housework and childcare.

What is housework:?

Founded is what you say when you’ve been looking for something that you lost.

What is lost?

Phasis was an ancient city on the black sea no doubt founded by a queen called Em hence Em-phasis

What is founded?

Woo is one part of woo-hoo which can either mean an expression of delight, or, that spooky stuff is happening depending on where the emphasis is put.

What is emphasis?

Peri is a scaffolding or construction built by my ex-husband in an attempt to woo me back.

What is woo?

A boat , for me, is a lovely experience of floating between elements. I only get this experience when the boat is small enough to dip down in the water when I move.

What is experience?

Udders are something that won’t steer a boat.
What is a boat?

Cowboy is a cow without udders
What are udders ?