“HO”cus, “PO” cus
It Takes a Villain
One-Word Rhymes
Movie Title Middle Word
Familiar Phrases
200

This game requires that you continuously pass the extremely warm starchy vegetable…don’t be the last one holding it!

Hot Potato

200

He says the movie line, “You don’t know the power of the dark side.”

Darth Vader

200

The cost of a plane ticket.

Airfare

200

A tale about a boy, a sexy leg lamp and a Red Rider BB Gun (1983).

Christmas

200

Temperature-based phrase for information that’s just been printed in a newspaper

Hot off the presses

400

Some Lamborghini engines have 750 of these “beastly” units under the hood.

Horse Power

400

At the end of “Avengers: Infinity War”, he snaps his fingers and wipes out half the inhabitants of the universe.

Thanos

400

Direct deposit time of the week.

Payday

400

O’Shea Jackson, Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad) (2015).

Outta

400

Longtime Philly DJ Jerry Blavat helped popularize this “explosive” rhyming phrase for something good out of the old days, like an old friend or acquaintance.

A Blast from the Past

600

Group dance performed in a circle that requires synchronized shaking of the limbs

Hokie Pokie

600

Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode has another confrontation with this crazed killer in 2018’s “Halloween.”

Michael Myers

600

Magical or personal power; Austin Powers has his working.

Mojo

600

Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989).

Poet’s

600

If you’re offering someone a copper cent to share their ideas, you might be asking for this exchange.

A penny for your thoughts

800

Someone who shows great promise while ice skating and shooting a puck can be said to have this.

Hockey Potential

800

Heath Ledger won an Oscar playing him in “The Dark Knight.”

Joker

800

Write one filled with recipes and you might get an award from the James Beard Foundation.

Cookbook

800

Hillary Swank hits like a girl – a really, really powerful girl (2004).

Dollar

800

Be sure to not look at the pan full of water on the stove before cooking your pasta, because of this.

A watched pot never boils

1000

The base harbor from which a ship originates or is registered. Or, what you might stick your USB drive into.

Home Port

1000

He’s the non-human villain in “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Hal

1000

To show off, especially in the main seating area of a sports venue.

Grandstand

1000

Adam Sandler takes out Drew Barrymore over and over (2004).

First

1000

Perhaps you fall a tad bit more in love when your sweetheart goes away. Maybe this might just happen.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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