The questions are posted here.
1. Alcohol (from Al-Kuhl) – Well cracked all round. Alkali was a terrific guess.
2. Budget
The bag was called ‘bougette’ (French for little bag). ‘Opening the bougette’ over time turned into ‘Opening the budget’. Surprisingly, this was the least cracked one. Exchequer (finance) was a hint. Couple of folks wrote in with ‘Debrief’ which I thought was a great guess as well.
3. Tantalize
The sinner was Tantalus. There are various accounts of his sin. The most popular one being – He stole food (ambrosia) from the Gods and gave them to Mortals hence revealing the secrets of the Gods.
4. Yankee
John Kaas -> Jan Kaas , John Cheese -> Jan Kees -> Yan Kees
NY/Connecticut was a hint. This one was decently cracked as well.
5. Moron
Idiot was the most popular answer. I’m not sure if ‘Idiot’ made it to the classification, my hunch is, it might have.
6. Tough one. Cobalt from Kobolds.
Not many got this. Someone mashed magnetism and gob-lins to arrive at cob-alt which was slick.
7. Easy one, I guess. Most of you got this.
S.O.S does not really stand for anything. It was selected cause of its easy representation in Morse code (…---…) and it wasn’t too easy to be sent accidentally.
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