Heaneyland!

Amuse a man, and he's amused for a few minutes. Teach a man to amuse himself, and he will annoy everyone he sits next to in a restaurant for the rest of his life.

Recently, some fellow puzzle dorks and I were playing a game that was introduced at July's National Puzzlers' League convention in Boston by its inventors, NeilFred and Henri Picciotto, "Unwords". This is a game even non-puzzle dorks would enjoy, it being highly entertaining and not requiring much preparation, so let me explain the rules.

The only thing you need to do is print out this list of sets of seven letters. None of those sets of letters has a single word anagram. Your job is to make up a word that can be anagrammed from those sets of letters, and define it so that the other players can guess it. There aren't really any turns -- once you think of a word and a definition, you call it out, and once someone figures out what word you made up, they call it out as well, and hopefully hilarity ensues.

Here are some examples from the game mentioned above. (Answers appear in the comments.)

AEIDLVZ:
A permit that allows you to spill oil

AEUDLMT:
The act of turning the sound back on after the commercial break

AULNRST:
Foods that aren't good for you...but aren't bad for you, either

Posted by Francis at 12:11 PM