“Fat Cat” is the standard example of a hink pink. Art: Louis Wain, 1880.

Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks’s sixty hink pink riddles here.

Ed. note: The contest has ended. Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our three clever winners: Connie McClung, from Atlanta, Georgia; and Maxine Anderson and Seth Christenfeld, both from New York, New York.  

1. Ad-Rock’s padlock
2. Cogito mojito
3. Smelly Shelley
4. Kant’s haunt
5. Tango’s fine art, Django Reinhardt
6. Titration citation
7. Doris Lessing’s chorus blessing
8. Courbet’s sorbet
9. Groggy (or foggy) Augie
10. Most Euclidian post meridian
11. Little Tramp’s Fiddle Camp
12. Shirty Bertie
13. Boxcar Willie’s socks are frilly!
14. Number coot’s bumbershoot
15. Thinner Skinner
16. Ho Chi Minh’s trophy bin
17. Schlepp earth, Hepworth!
18. Cain’s grain
19. Taylor Swift’s paler shifts
20. Rabbit’s habit
21. Trump’s slump
22. Bella booty, Fela Kuti
23. Ibsen’s Gibson
24. Xi’s plea
25. WikiLeaker’s icky sneakers
26. Neo Leo
27. Churchill’s birch bill
28. Piggy ciggies
29. Yo Yo Ma’s dough faux pas
30. Lyin’ scion
31. Mais oui, Jay Z!
32. Terry Eagleton’s merry beagle run
33. Stevie Nicks’s c.v. tricks
34. Killer’s Pillars
35. Bonaparte phones a tart
36. Joe Turner sleuths Sojourner Truth
37. Loose draper’s newspaper
38. Jimi’s Shimmy
39. Dreyfus’s typhus
40. Colson’s Molson
41. Rube’s lube
42. Franz Kline’s Fonz line
43. Otis cheater’s lotus-eater
44. Simple wimple
45. Silver Jew pilfers brew
46. High art pie chart
47. Kurt’s yurt
48. Lionel Barrymore’s final dairy chore
49. Gipper’s kippers
50. Handmaid’s Band-Aid
51. Reggie’s veggies
52. Beggin’ Sagan
53. Gladwell’s bad smell
54. Heathcliff’s Keith riff
55. Taft’s raft
56. Hegel’s bagel
57. Capone, alone
58. Kotter II’s Waterloo
59. Newt ’n’ granny’s hootenanny
60. Butler’s sutler