Games to Play in the Dark 7: Crazy Daisy

A crazy daisy is a two-word phrase where both parts rhyme. You must also think up a “clue” for the phrase which will enable another person to guess it. The clue for “crazy daisy,” for example, might be “lunatic flower.”

It is not easy to come up with good crazy daisies, so even with three or four players, long pauses ensue, while everybody thinks furiously, and the heave and strain of mental machinery is practically audible.

So it is a good idea to think them up on your own, in the dark, and store them away in a pocket of your mind, for the delectation of visitors, when they come:

confused large bird

flustered bustard

mushroom-related mistake

fungal bungle

right-wing rumpus

Tory furore

ancient beverage

primordial cordial

It is always particularly satisfying when you find a rhyme for a word of unusual structure, which does not seem, at first, to be promising:

military action by small marsupial

wombat combat