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When you receive one of these in the mail, don’t forget to RSVP
What is an invitation?
A medieval farm worker, or to browse the internet
What is serf/surf?
Made without egg yolks or other fats, this sponge cake is light, airy & white
What is angel-food cake?
This one-player card game is known as Patience in Britain
What is Solitaire?
Moe, Larry & Curly
Who are the Three Stooges?
A forward one of these was illegal in college football until 1906
What is a pass?
A cereal grass, or sardonic, like some humor
What is rye/wry?
Ja, in German this cake is known as Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte
What is Black Forest cake?
In a variant of this game, instead of "Do you have any aces?", you ask for an ace of a specific suit
What is Go Fish?
In a Mother Goose rhyme, "Rub-a-dub-dub", they're the "three men in a tub"
Who is the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker?
It’s the rare feat of winning all four majors in golf or tennis
What is a grand slam?
To smell really bad, or to inflict, usually havoc
What is reek/wreak?
There's a sculpture material in the name of this kind of cake
What is marble?
Ochos Locos, as its name suggests, is an Android app for this card came
What is Crazy Eights?
A legendary love triangle consisted of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere & this person
Who is Lancelot?
This word can follow “grand” to denote a big event for a business, or precede “day” to describe a big event for a baseball team
What is opening?
A hole that a shoelace goes through, or a small landmass surrounded by water
What is eyelet/islet?
Left in Antarctica by Robert Scott, a 106-year-old piece of this cake was found in 2017 & still seemed edible (if it ever was)
What is fruit cake?
In a kids' game an unpaired queen is this; if you're holding it as the last card, you lose
What is Old Maid?
Their names are Melchior, Balthasar & Gaspar
Who are the three wise men (or the Magi)?
As an adjective this word describes the type of killing a hitman does; as a noun, Rousseau wrote about the “social” one
What is contract?
Containing little fat, or a legal claim on a property
What is lean/lien?
This colorful cake got a boost in popularity from "Steel Magnolias", where it was an armadillo-shaped groom's cake
What is red velvet cake?
Hold the gin & deal 7 cards when 3 or 4 play this game instead of just 2 people
What is Rummy?
The Three Tenors were Pavarotti, Domingo & this man
Who is José Carreras?