Sixty Hink Pinks: The ItalyAnswers
Really Difficult Puzzles
“Fat Cat” is the standard example of a hink pink. Art: Louis Wain, 1880.
Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks’s sixty hink pink riddles here.
Ed. note: The contest has ended. Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our three clever winners: Connie McClung, from Atlanta, Georgia; and Maxine Anderson and Seth Christenfeld, both from New York, New York.
- Ad-Rock’s padlock
- Cogito mojito
- Smelly Shelley
- Kant’s haunt
- Tango’s fine art, Django Reinhardt
- Titration citation
- Doris Lessing’s chorus blessing
- Courbet’s sorbet
- Groggy (or foggy) Augie
- Most Euclidian post meridian
- Little Tramp’s Fiddle Camp
- Shirty Bertie
- Boxcar Willie’s socks are frilly!
- Number coot’s bumbershoot
- Thinner Skinner
- Ho Chi Minh’s trophy bin
- Schlepp earth, Hepworth!
- Cain’s grain
- Taylor Swift’s paler shifts
- Rabbit’s habit
- Trump’s slump
- Bella booty, Fela Kuti
- Ibsen’s Gibson
- Xi’s plea
- WikiLeaker’s icky sneakers
- Neo Leo
- Churchill’s birch bill
- Piggy ciggies
- Yo Yo Ma’s dough faux pas
- Lyin’ scion
- Mais oui, Jay Z!
- Terry Eagleton’s merry beagle run
- Stevie Nicks’s c.v. tricks
- Killer’s Pillars
- Bonaparte phones a tart
- Joe Turner sleuths Sojourner Truth
- Loose draper’s newspaper
- Jimi’s Shimmy
- Dreyfus’s typhus
- Colson’s Molson
- Rube’s lube
- Franz Kline’s Fonz line
- Otis cheater’s lotus-eater
- Simple wimple
- Silver Jew pilfers brew
- High art pie chart
- Kurt’s yurt
- Lionel Barrymore’s final dairy chore
- Gipper’s kippers
- Handmaid’s Band-Aid
- Reggie’s veggies
- Beggin’ Sagan
- Gladwell’s bad smell
- Heathcliff’s Keith riff
- Taft’s raft
- Hegel’s bagel
- Capone, alone
- Kotter II’s Waterloo
- Newt ’n’ granny’s hootenanny
- Butler’s sutler