They are popularly called teapots or linguistically homonyms or polysemes: Words that have different meanings but sound the same. Band-aids, for example (pavement or adhesive pads for wounds), grades (school grades or music signs), or dandelion (the plant and what the big cat chews on). Exactly ten years ago, game designer Steffi-Maria Schlinke made the good old “Memory” (which only Ravensburger can call that for trademark reasons) one step more difficult for Piatnik.
Under the title “Clearly ambiguous” In 2013, the language artist, who was, among other things, press officer, editor, publicist, travel journalist, opera dramaturge and writer, compiled more than two dozen identical word pairs, from kiwi to candle. but two different ones that belong together in terms of sound.
Now she goes one better and delivers in “Clearly ambiguous 2” another 27 couples follow. And it gets a bit more difficult at the beginning, because not everything is immediately apparent, for example with the (meat) grinder, which first has to be identified as such. And that the tail from the dog to the ( (Owned a fishing) rod also only arises when other possibilities are logically ruled out.It is, however, a thoroughly appealing new “memory” variant that demands a certain amount of intellectual power.(maz)
