Issue 12: Puzzle Solutions
Puzzled beyond patience with Payne’s Chain Reaction? Relax — we’ve got the solutions right here! Continuing on from last time, behold the chain of Payne…
Payne’s Chain Reaction IV answers and links
- ABBA with SOS – ABBA again
- Inspector Endeavour Morse – Morse Code
- HM Bark Endeavour – Endeavour
- Opportunity Rover [>25 miles on Mars] – the rover that reached the Endeavour crater
- Bruno Mars – Opportunity was a Rover on Mars
- Hawaii – Bruno Mars is Hawaiian
- Fifty Shades of Grey – E.L. James – Hawaii Five-0 (50)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Grey and Gray
- Prince Caspian – Both characters are portrayed by the actor Ben Barnes
- Java – Both Java and Caspian and extinct species of tiger :’( [Also they’re both seas]
- C# – Programming languages
- 20/20 vision – C# = See sharp
- Cricket – Twenty20 is a form of Cricket
- Phantom of the Opera – Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals
- Ghost and ‘Unchained Melody’ by Righteous Brothers – Another word for a phantom
- Jean “Django” Reinhardt – Django Unchained (bonus link: both the Righteous Brothers and Reinhardt covered ‘Georgia On My Mind’)
- Def Leppard – Rick Allen – Both are disabled; two of Reinhardt’s fingers were paralysed due to burns, Allen’s left arm was amputated after a street-racing accident.
- Thor – Allen is known as the Thunder God but actually Thor is the god of thunder.
- Thursday’s child – named after Thor (Thor’s day)
- Ashes to Ashes – Both are Bowie songs (as is Life on Mars)
