Five-Minute Tests

These brain-plexing words and shapes, and their positions, can be used to derive a word or saying.

1.    GR 12" AVE
2.    faredce
3.    k k
       c c
       u u
       t t
       s s
       word word word word
4.    r
       y
       s
5.    gesg
       segg
       gegs
       gges
6.    u
       p
       s
       i
       d
       e
7.    eeeeeeeeeec
8.    LOV
9.    acriml
10.    AALLLL
11.    i4i
12.    poFISHnd
13.    13579 AZ
14.    CUS TOM
15.    uPLATm
16.    Pot O O O O O O O O
17.    bad bad
18.    B B
       A A
       R R
19.    I’M you
20.                  Beating

       Beating    Bush     Beating

                      Beating
21.   i i
       dark
22.   1234
       US
23.   Math The
24.   ONCE
       4:56pm
25.   LANG4UAGE
26.   ri
       poorch
27.   XQQME
28.   Give Get
       Give Get
       Give Get
       Give Get
29.   OdOoOmO
30.   hcidl
31.   NV GREEN
32.   cl_udy
33.          mad

       mad    U    mad

              mad
34.   ShaKEEPpe
35.   Business :)
36.   nooutwhere
37.
38.   hahandnd

Answers: 1. One foot in the grave; 2. Red in the face; 3. Too stuck up for words; 4. Syrup; 5. Scrambled eggs; 6. Upside down; 7. Tennessee; 8. Endless love; 9. Criminal; 10. All in all; 11. An eye for an eye; 12. Big fish in a little pond; 13. Odds and ends; 14. Breaking a custom; 15. Platinum; 16. Potatoes; 17. Too bad; 18. Parallel bars; 19. I’m bigger than you; 20. Beating around the bush; 21. Dark under the eyes; 22. Count on us; 23. The aftermath; 24. Once upon a time; 25. Foreign language; 26. Take from the rich and give to the poor; 27. Excuse me; 28. Forgive and forget; 29. Dominoes; 30. Mixed up child; 31. Green with envy; 32. Partly cloudy; 33. Mad about you; 34. Keep in shape; 35. Business before pleasure; 36. Out in the middle of nowhere; 37. Crossroads; 38. Hand in hand

to be continued