Answers to the game
Figgerits – Logic Puzzles Game
IOS and Android
(Developer Hitapps Inc)
from 481 to 490 level
Level 481 – Flora
A lot of plants, when attacked by insects, release a distress chemical that might help them get out of this situation by attracting predators, such as birds or wasps. They would eat the insect and save the plant
Intentional, often criminal, deception (noun):
FRAUD
Male member of a religious order:
FRIAR
Reddish brown hair dye:
HENNA
What is hijacking on the high seas called?:
PIRACY
Beat through cleverness:
OUTWIT
Grumpy, cranky, bad-tempered:
ORNERY
Croissant is a flaky, ___ pastry:
BUTTERY
Small bouquet pinned to a woman’s clothes:
CORSAGE
Someone who talks much but says little:
WINDBAG
Convince, talk into:
PERSUADE
The gadget has seen wide ___ among tech enthusiasts:
ADOPTION
After an hour of jogging, he was ___ in sweat:
DRENCHED
Show, specify, point out:
INDICATE
Misleading falsehood:
DECEPTION
Opposite of insincere:
UNFEIGNED
Nourishing substances:
NUTRIENTS
Outstanding item presented at an exhibition:
SHOWPIECE
Level 482 – High Culture
Luciano Pavarotti received 165 curtain calls and was applauded for 1 hour 7 minutes after singing the part of Nemorino in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in 1988
A group of three:
TRIO
Latin for work:
OPUS
It was ___ to think I could get the job without experience:
NAIVE
Random sounds:
NOISE
What does a cowboy use to catch a cow?:
LASSO
To attract someone to something not good:
SEDUCE
Antonym of competent:
INEPT
What is a surgeon’s favorite tool?:
SCALPEL
A place where everything is perfect and ideal:
UTOPIA
Place the items on the ___ before checking out:
COUNTER
Opposite of accept:
DECLINE
What someone strongly feels about something:
PASSION
Our ___ resulted in a long but interesting evening:
ESCAPADE
What can you call something related to the sea?:
NAUTICAL
To put too much work on someone:
OVERLOAD
Level 483 – High Culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald was the first writer to use the term “T-shirt”. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it appeared in This Side of Paradise in 1920
Cheese and chocolate do this when hot:
MELT
He is a grandmaster at ___:
CHESS
A tall structure:
TOWER
What kind of prize do you win in the Olympics?:
MEDAL
A plan made, usually in secret:
SCHEME
I want to play the electric ___ in a rock band:
GUITAR
Another name for tungsten:
WOLFRAM
What does a ballet dancer usually wear?:
LEOTARD
Shrubs with pink or red flowers (plural):
AZALEAS
Anything that is not safe can be considered ___:
HARMFUL
A foul committed in soccer and American football:
OFFSIDE
Where do you keep ice cream?:
FREEZER
The part of your foot that doesn’t have your heel:
FOREFOOT
Please ___ the numbers with just a pen and paper:
CALCULATE
Level 484 – High Culture
Artist Willard Wigan once inhaled his own work. Wigan’s works are micro-sculptures that must be viewed through a microscope. In creating his art, Wigan has to work between pulses
Women’s garment from India:
SARI
Tangible money:
CASH
Monarchs wear it:
CROWN
Uncultivated tract of land:
HEATH
Radiant, luminous, bright:
AGLOW
Opposite of attic:
CELLAR
7th ___ of the world:
WONDER
Relating to the heart:
CARDIAC
Perforated sheet for making patterns with paint:
STENCIL
Someone who serves in the army:
SOLDIER
The road ___ two cities:
CONNECTS
Partner, companion, colleague:
ASSOCIATE
Not heaviness:
LIGHTNESS
Studies relationship between organisms and their environment:
ECOLOGIST
X-ing:
CROSSWALK
Level 485 – High Culture
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see
We scouted the ___ for a place to set up camp:
AREA
Everyone has these, good and bad (plural):
HABIT
What your little brother or sister used to do to you:
ANNOY
What has 60 seconds?:
MINUTE
Not a part of, but the ___ thing:
ENTIRE
To make certain that something happens:
ENSURE
What do you give to a question?:
ANSWER
Everyone makes these (singular):
MISTAKE
Keep the chatter to a ___, please:
MINIMUM
To bring up something briefly:
MENTION
When nature calls, what do you use?:
BATHROOM
A symbol in text that notes further explanation required:
ASTERISK
Not the majority:
MINORITY
His strive to get promoted is quite ___:
AMBITIOUS
Someone whose job is to help someone else:
ASSISTANT
Level 486 – Sports
Major League Baseball umpires are obliged to wear black underwear during games, in case their trousers split
Two peas in a ___:
POD
Bring water to a ___:
BOIL
When the fox preaches, take care of your ___:
GEESE
Having knowledge or understanding of the situation (adj.):
AWARE
___ dot is a type of decorative pattern:
POLKA
Device used in the 90s to connect to the Internet:
MODEM
Evil spirits:
DEMONS
Refuse to acknowledge:
IGNORE
Archer:
BOWMAN
The company made significant ___ into the Asian markets:
INROADS
___ are yellow fruit that grow in bunches:
BANANAS
Substance that stimulates an immune response:
ANTIGEN
Hydrogen nitride, widely used fertilizer:
AMMONIA
Brandy distilled from hard cider:
APPLEJACK
Steel gloves:
GAUNTLETS
Level 487 – Sports
Orienteering was invented in Sweden
___, ___ against the dying of the light:
RAGE
Famously extinct bird:
DODO
Saturn’s largest moon:
TITAN
Avoid, duck, swerve:
DODGE
The pen is mightier than the ___:
SWORD
Charities always welcome new ___:
DONORS
She had a spider ___ on her left shoulder:
TATTOO
Metal support for logs in a fireplace:
ANDIRON
We must not ___ from the established path:
DEVIATE
What do we call wine’s year of production?:
VINTAGE
In an extreme degree (adj.):
INTENSE
Tramp, drifter, homeless:
VAGRANT
Guglielmo Marconi was the ___ of radio:
INVENTOR
Excessive drinking can lead to various ___:
DISORDERS
People who fight bulls:
TOREADORS
Ads rely on demographic ___:
TARGETING
Level 488 – Sports
Bowling was invented around 3200 BC in Egypt
Unit of electrical potential:
VOLT
Student:
PUPIL
Fit like a ___:
GLOVE
He was born with a silver ___ in his mouth:
SPOON
Smallest unit of currency, p.:
PENCE
Pocket-sized money container:
WALLET
Stake winnings from the previous bet on the next one:
PARLAY
Flat cooking implement with a handle:
SPATULA
Not a child:
GROWNUP
Split-skirt:
CULOTTES
The painting was sold at an ___:
AUCTION
Covered by clouds:
OVERCAST
Opposite of horizontal:
VERTICAL
Narrow passage between buildings:
ALLEYWAY
His scribblings were completely ___:
ILLEGIBLE
Secondary or unintended result:
BYPRODUCT
Level 489 – Flora
Many kinds of plants are able to tell what season it is, even if the temperatures are unstable. The winter might have warm days, but many plants will not start growing, because they are sensitive to the amount of sunlight and day length
Not a child:
ADULT
Period of immoderate indulgence:
BINGE
What does Sisyphus roll up a hill?:
BOULDER
Brings you the menu:
WAITER
Chemical component widespread in batteries:
LITHIUM
Outdated, old-fashioned, obsolete:
OUTWORN
Twisting or writhing motion:
WRIGGLE
Senselessly, foolishly, ridiculously:
INANELY
Different from what is usual (noun):
ANOMALY
___ species are harmful to ecosystems:
INVASIVE
Substance, stuff:
MATERIAL
Talks about private lives of others:
GOSSIP
Andrew is not her biological son, he was __:
ADOPTED
A song developed in Italy in the 14th century:
MADRIGAL
Level 490 – Flora
There are many reasons as to why trees are able to live for hundreds, even thousands of years. One of them is something called “negligible senescence”, which means that instead of declining in health with age, some trees actually become healthier
He could hardly ___ the strength to stand up:
SUMMON
Top of a mountain:
SUMMIT
Blossom:
FLOWER
Dismissal from work (plural):
LAYOFFS
Glaze that covers wooden furniture:
VARNISH
Soft, often checkered fabric:
FLANNEL
Opposite of disposable:
REUSABLE
Type of melon:
HONEYDEW
Introductory essay for a book:
FOREWORD
It combines skiing and shooting:
BIATHLON
Using radio waves (adj.):
WIRELESS
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and ___:
DIVISION
Person who defames someone else:
SLANDERER
Significant event in one’s life:
MILESTONE
Written statement made under oath:
AFFIDAVIT
Ridiculousness, senselessness, incongruity:
ABSURDITY
