Have you ever been hit in the head with a frying pan? Neither have I. Or at least not that I remember. But that's the way folks describe the experience of insight, perhaps without the resultant need for a head CT. And I've decided that this coming year, 2013, will be the year in which I finally attempt to respect insight alongside analysis as a valid form of deduction. Or induction. Or convergent thinking. Or whatever you want to call it. And so to these ends, I present for your pleasure and eternal edification a classic puzzle form that gives itself up much easier to insight than to analysis. These are remote association problems -- what one word melds with the given words to make compound words or common phrases? For example, if the given words were *cottage, Swiss *and cake, the answer would be "cheese" as in cottage cheese, Swiss cheese and cheesecake.
Test your insight on the following RATs. (Note: not necessarily ROUSs.) And then submit your answer to GeekDad Puzzle Central by Friday for your chance at a $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate!
1. show/life/row
2. fox/man/peep
3. jumping/bag/string
4. mate/list/blank
5. fleet/shooting/wars
6. camp/re/lace
7. lace/horse/horn
8. game/out/water
9. fiction/mad/geek
10. tom/toy/oh
