{"id":2574,"date":"2018-01-13T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/13\/queen-list\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:35:13","slug":"queen-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/lists\/queen-list\/","title":{"rendered":"q: The Queen&#8217;s Game: list"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A list of known <a href=\"\/words\/1997\/04\/27\/queen\/\">Queen's Game<\/a> words.<\/p>\r\n<p>A note on the format: the words are listed in \"corpse-first\" arrangement (that is, the beheaded word is followed by the list of equivalent words that behead to it) to aid in grouping equivalent words together and avoiding duplication. I'm more willing to admit questionable words than Jim (the originator of the concept) is; in particular, I allow proper nouns and foreign words if I particularly like them. Such questionable items are marked with a *.<\/p>\r\n<p>If the pre- and post-beheadment words appear to rhyme, try pronouncing one of them differently.<\/p>\r\n<ul><li>ache &lt;\u2014 cache<\/li>\r\n  <li>after &lt;\u2014 wafter<\/li>\r\n  <li>ague &lt;\u2014 vague<\/li>\r\n  <li>aid &lt;\u2014 said<\/li>\r\n  <li>allow &lt;\u2014 fallow<\/li>\r\n  <li>ally &lt;\u2014 rally<\/li>\r\n  <li>amine &lt;\u2014 famine<\/li>\r\n  <li>anal &lt;\u2014 banal<\/li>\r\n  <li>anger &lt;\u2014 danger<\/li>\r\n  <li>ants &lt;\u2014 wants<\/li>\r\n  <li>any &lt;\u2014 zany<\/li>\r\n  <li>are &lt;\u2014 hare<\/li>\r\n  <li>argon &lt;\u2014 jargon<\/li>\r\n  <li>arm &lt;\u2014 warm<\/li>\r\n  <li>arrant &lt;\u2014 warrant<\/li>\r\n  <li>articulate &lt;\u2014 particulate<\/li>\r\n  <li>arts &lt;\u2014 warts<\/li>\r\n  <li>ascent &lt;\u2014 nascent<\/li>\r\n  <li>ash &lt;\u2014 wash<\/li>\r\n  <li>asp &lt;\u2014 wasp<\/li>\r\n  <li>astern &lt;\u2014 eastern<\/li>\r\n  <li>aunt &lt;\u2014 haunt<\/li>\r\n  <li>ave &lt;\u2014 have *<\/li>\r\n  <li>ave &lt;\u2014 save *<\/li>\r\n  <li>bony &lt;\u2014 ebony<\/li>\r\n  <li>ear &lt;\u2014 bear<\/li>\r\n  <li>ease &lt;\u2014 cease\/lease (see \"lease\" below)<\/li>\r\n  <li>egress &lt;\u2014 regress<\/li>\r\n  <li>egret &lt;\u2014 regret<\/li>\r\n  <li>enchant &lt;\u2014 penchant<\/li>\r\n  <li>enfold &lt;\u2014 tenfold<\/li>\r\n  <li>ere &lt;\u2014 sere<\/li>\r\n  <li>ether &lt;\u2014 tether<\/li>\r\n  <li>even &lt;\u2014 seven<\/li>\r\n  <li>evil &lt;\u2014 devil<\/li>\r\n  <li>ewer &lt;\u2014 sewer<\/li>\r\n  <li>gain &lt;\u2014 again<\/li>\r\n  <li>gate &lt;\u2014 agate<\/li>\r\n  <li>hall &lt;\u2014 shall<\/li>\r\n  <li>hat &lt;\u2014 what<\/li>\r\n  <li>have &lt;\u2014 shave<\/li>\r\n  <li>heist &lt;\u2014 theist<\/li>\r\n  <li>here &lt;\u2014 there<\/li>\r\n  <li>his &lt;\u2014 this<\/li>\r\n  <li>hoe &lt;\u2014 shoe<\/li>\r\n  <li>holly &lt;\u2014 wholly<\/li>\r\n  <li>hove &lt;\u2014 shove<\/li>\r\n  <li>how &lt;\u2014 show<\/li>\r\n  <li>imply &lt;\u2014 simply<\/li>\r\n  <li>inter &lt;\u2014 winter<\/li>\r\n  <li>into &lt;\u2014 pinto<\/li>\r\n  <li>irate &lt;\u2014 pirate<\/li>\r\n  <li>iterate &lt;\u2014 literate<\/li>\r\n  <li>lacier &lt;\u2014 glacier<\/li>\r\n  <li>laid &lt;\u2014 plaid<\/li>\r\n  <li>land &lt;\u2014 eland<\/li>\r\n  <li>laughter &lt;\u2014 slaughter<\/li>\r\n  <li>lavish &lt;\u2014 slavish<\/li>\r\n  <li>lead &lt;\u2014 plead<\/li>\r\n  <li>lease &lt;\u2014 please<\/li>\r\n  <li>limb &lt;\u2014 climb<\/li>\r\n  <li>live &lt;\u2014 alive<\/li>\r\n  <li>live &lt;\u2014 olive<\/li>\r\n  <li>lose &lt;\u2014 close<\/li>\r\n  <li>lough &lt;\u2014 plough *<\/li>\r\n  <li>lough &lt;\u2014 slough *<\/li>\r\n  <li>lover &lt;\u2014 plover<\/li>\r\n  <li>low &lt;\u2014 plow<\/li>\r\n  <li>mage &lt;\u2014 image<\/li>\r\n  <li>micron &lt;\u2014 omicron<\/li>\r\n  <li>migrant &lt;\u2014 emigrant<\/li>\r\n  <li>nary &lt;\u2014 unary<\/li>\r\n  <li>now &lt;\u2014 know<\/li>\r\n  <li>offer &lt;\u2014 coffer<\/li>\r\n  <li>older &lt;\u2014 solder<\/li>\r\n  <li>omen &lt;\u2014 women<\/li>\r\n  <li>omit &lt;\u2014 vomit<\/li>\r\n  <li>on &lt;\u2014 won<\/li>\r\n  <li>one &lt;\u2014 gone<\/li>\r\n  <li>one &lt;\u2014 bone\/zone<\/li>\r\n  <li>ouch &lt;\u2014 touch<\/li>\r\n  <li>our &lt;\u2014 dour\/tour<\/li>\r\n  <li>our &lt;\u2014 four\/pour\/your<\/li>\r\n  <li>our &lt;\u2014 hour\/sour<\/li>\r\n  <li>our &lt;\u2014 jour *<\/li>\r\n  <li>oven &lt;\u2014 woven<\/li>\r\n  <li>over &lt;\u2014 cover<\/li>\r\n  <li>over &lt;\u2014 mover<\/li>\r\n  <li>overage &lt;\u2014 coverage<\/li>\r\n  <li>ower &lt;\u2014 bower<\/li>\r\n  <li>owl &lt;\u2014 bowl<\/li>\r\n  <li>own &lt;\u2014 down<\/li>\r\n  <li>pear &lt;\u2014 spear<\/li>\r\n  <li>range &lt;\u2014 orange<\/li>\r\n  <li>read &lt;\u2014 bread<\/li>\r\n  <li>resent &lt;\u2014 present<\/li>\r\n  <li>rough &lt;\u2014 trough<\/li>\r\n  <li>row &lt;\u2014 prow<\/li>\r\n  <li>sable &lt;\u2014 usable<\/li>\r\n  <li>sage &lt;\u2014 usage<\/li>\r\n  <li>union &lt;\u2014 bunion<\/li>\r\n  <li>use &lt;\u2014 fuse<\/li>\r\n  <li>usher &lt;\u2014 pusher<\/li>\r\n  <li>yes &lt;\u2014 eyes<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last modified 4\/27\/97)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/words\/1997\/04\/27\/queen\/\">Back to column q<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3107,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2574\/revisions\/3218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}