Game of combined combined compound words

Well, I am completely lost here, Sami.

(I'll come back later to see if anyone has guessed it.)

Nice photo btw. :)

Well, I made it difficult intentionally =P And therefore it is not a very good as a visual pun. But I'm sure anyone can find there at least one punch line ;-)

like it.... it´s cool

Thank you Katja =) And what did you find out? ;-)

I'm with Karen - I think I'm about to be permanently confused today!!

That was my secret, evil plan! =P

This one is a real mind twister, Sami! I couldn't cheat because I couldn't access the other photo (maybe it is set to 'private'?)...truly diabolical, lol! ;-)

DOH! That should be fixed now =) Thank you very much for the notice Val ;-)

Thanks for fixing; now I understand your pun; brilliant!

Well, I say again it is not so brilliant if one can't understand it without cheating =D

But I had much fun doing this, which is of course the most important thing =)

And here's one "for the road" =)

"HORSEBACKSIDEWALK"

I wish I could have had time to illustrate that one! =D

Great shot Sami . I'm still lost but I will come back later

Welcome to find out, and good luck =D

there's a lot going on here, it's amazing how many bits make up the image

Thank you Amaz =) I could have put there even more, but I just ran out of time =D

...hmmmm, I see a notebook, a footnote, a bookworm and then I'm lost! ;-DD

Well, you actually nailed three out of four already! ;-) But the fun starts when you try to combine those. So, try to imagine what a footnotebook is? Or what a notebookworm looks like?

And to play the other game mentioned, one could add there a barefoot! And now that I mentioned it, Valerie (valfal) actually has that on her shot =D A barefootnotes!

...hmmm, o.K. I'm still not sure but I think I've a simple solution - it's just a Word Worm! ;-D

This is better! =P
youtu.be/wr9r2_jVrHk

OMG great - I would lose in a few seconds! ;-DD

Not sure I get this one either I'm afraid Sami, but I love the image and in particular that little toy. I remember having something very similar as a child ... I think they were called Squirmels or something like that! :)

Yes, I remember this toy from my childhood as well =) It comes with a very thin and almost invisible "fishing line" with what one can magically pull it around.

Yes, and I wasn't far out with the name. They're actually called Squirmles and would you believe still for sale through Amazon ...

goo.gl/yNr38c

I bought mine from Tiger ;-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_(store)

Very clever and challenging.

Thank you Esther =)

so funny!

Thank you Chrissy =)

Oh now that made me crazy Sami ... lol I get the idea but not so good at figuring it out ... sorry to say I had to "cheat" and look at the other picture. :)

Well, I did it a little too hard in purpose =D And I admit a good visual pun would not need explanations at all ;-)

i was thinking 'book worm'

Except it looks like being commonly written without space or hyphen ;-)

I followed the link, but not sure, so a wormhole is the same as a footnote? ?

No no, wormhole is a wormhole: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

But a concept wormhole becomes from a metaphor or analogy of a real worm digging a tunnel to get from one surface on the ground to another place.

So, this image is a wordplay, and kind of illustration for the result of wild imagintaion ;-)

Try to imagine a bookworm (enthusiastic reader) specialized only on reading footnotes written on notebooks, and who then uses "binding holes" typical on notebook sheets to travel from one page to another =D

Wow, that was quite some journey for a bookworm through your note, notebook and wormholes;-)
Even for a German Donaudampfschiffahrtskapitän...

And story may continue... ;-) A barefootnotebookwormhole would then be a hole of a bookworm specialized on notebooks for very minimalistic and "undecorated" footnotes =D

very useful notes composed nicely :))

Cheers! =D

I'm astonished, the word in your example is Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, in Dutch we have just words of this length Hottentottententententoonstelling. A very nice story you present us.

Excellent, well done.

What do you think of this in Dutch: 'Mooie zeden in Ede', zei oom. A perfect sentence which also can be read from right to the left as far as the letters concerned, but that's a small detail, isn't it?

Great creative photo.

Oh yeah, the germans are great in this - expecially the lawer ones. ;-)
I had read the english summary about it at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nouns#Compounds - something you never had really thinking about as german, but when you read it is getting right into your face telling you - yeah, that´s something special and different in other languages...
(I also had this toy!)

Ah, and there is a (german) gamebox by "moses" called "Wortissimo" - where you choose a card and have to find out how many words are included in a given word, each gives one (or more) points printed on the backside.
Example word: "Kindergeburtstagstorte" (children birthday cake) containing the following german words:
- Kind (child)
- Kinde (old form of Kind, used for example in "zu etwas. kommen wie die Jungfrau zum Kinde" - to get sth. by sheer chance | got, got/gotten)
- Kinder (children)
- Kindergeburtstag (children´s birthday)
- Kindergeburtstags (genetive)
- Inder (Indian)
- der (that, maskuline)
- Erg (abbr. of Elektroretinogramm / electroretinogram)
- Geburt (birth)
- Geburtstag (birthday)
- Geburtstags (genetive of Geburtstag)
- Geburtstagstorte (birthday cake)
- Stag (Uh, I don´t know this one - they are saying it´s a line for sailing or something like that)
- Stags (genetive)
- Tag (day)
- Tags, tags (genetive of Tag)
- Tor (goal)
- Torte (cake)
- Ort (location / place / area)
- Orte, orte (more of single Ort)
- bu (chinese unit of length)
- in (inside, in, in)
- er (he)
- Ur (Auerochs, german prefix for original or primitive)
- Rot, rot (red)
- Gat (eyelet hole)
- Kind (child)

Yes, German must be the best language for this sort of language game! =)

And to have compounds like that used in everyday use is definitely not common even in Finnish! We will cut that example at least into two parts: "Lapsen syntymäpäiväkakku."

- Lapsen = kid's
- Syntymä = birth
- Päivä = day
- Kaakku = cake

But "syntymäpäiväkakku" is also great. I am in the need of more "ä" now. Anyone want´s to play a finnish version of Scrabble? ;-)

Me! =) But how do we share the alphabets(?) =P At least I couldn't find any multi player online Scrabble games, and especially not in Finnish! =D

great to be back to your beautiful photos:)

visit sami....

Love that! :)