Based on all the wacky ways our brains retrieve information, Who’s The Blonde? has four different kinds of clues:
TONGUE TIPPERS
Tongue Tippers take you on a wild ride from the tip of your tongue to the crannies of your brain and back, using word associations, strange connections, visual clues, trivia—everything but that thing in the kitchen that the water comes out of. Your job is to fill in all the blanks. Example:
Who are THOSE PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS THINK THEY’RE SICK until someone gives them that FAKE PILL that sounds like ONE OF THOSE THREE FAT TENORS?
SOUND ALIKES
Sound Alikes are connected loosely—very loosely—by similar sounds. Either the words rhyme, or they start with the same letter, or they just sort of sound similar. Example:
Easter animal that’s not a chick:
Clyde’s partner:
The way Mary-Kate Olsen looks:
Now, you may not remember what you call a hat with a propeller on top, but you do recall that Clyde's partner was Bonnie. And that sort of sounds like "beanie," right? So now you've got the hat answer-beanie-and you've got Bonnie, which means the Easter animal is probably not a turtle or an elephant but a "bunny." Beanie, bunny, Bonnie-so what's the way Mary-Kate Olsen looks? Bony!
Beanie, bunny, Bonnie, bony!
Okay. Some of these are really hard (or really silly), so don't beat yourself up if it takes you a while to get the hang of it.
TAKE 10s
Take 10s are groups of, yes, 10 things that share one thing in common. They’re 10 redheads, or 10 talking heads that don’t shut up on cable—whatever. So if the category is “Doctors” and the clue is “The one who put the cat in the hat,” you know the answer is Dr. Seuss.
THE ONE THAT’S NOT
The brain works in mysterious ways. Often, it will link information in pairs. So it asks, “What’s the one that’s not Fahrenheit?” or, “Who’s the one that’s not Stephen Colbert?” You probably know both answers.
