Chess
Wordplay
Backwards
Annotations
100
The square that the White Queen first lands in.
What is QB4?
100
To reduce OR A period of learning
What is lessen/lesson?
100
This is what the queen remembers best.
What is the future?
100
This is the space that the white queen moves to in order to catch her shawl
What is QB5?
200
The square Alice advances to to be alongside the White Queen (who has now turned into a sheep)
What is Q5?
200
To refer to OR A location
What is cite/site
200
This is how the queen knows she has pricked her finger.
What is blood on her finger? (and pain)
200
Rower's slang for putting an oar in the water so deep that it catches the bottom
What is "catching a crab"?
300
The square Alice starts the chapter in.
What is Q4?
300
A representation OR A percussion instrument
What is symbol/cymbal?
300
This is when you get jam.
What is tomorrow and yesterday - but never today? (or just never)
300
A spinning top similar to a dreidel played by children during Chanukah
What is a teetotum?
400
The square the White Queen moves to when she moves to the other end of the shop to set the egg on the shelf.
What is KB8?
400
Stanzas OR Against
What is verses/versus?
400
This is how you know someone has committed a crime.
What is they are already in jail?
400
The "Mad Hatter" in Through the Looking-Glass
Who is the King's Messenger?
500
The piece in the square to Alice's left after she crosses the brook?
Who is the White King?
500
To move backwards OR To plant again
What is recede/reseed?
500
This is how the queen says living backwards makes one feel at first.
What is giddy?
500
A term in Victorian England for a girl who acts like a schoolgirl
What is a bread-and-butter miss?
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