Isn't the point of homophones that they sound like the equivalent word, thus gory, grim, grisly, scary?

▲ extra88 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the confusion is about what "Gorey, Grimm, Scarry" mean. They, along with "Silverstein" in that game, are last names of children's authors.

▲ Lerc 7 hours ago | parent [-]

And that would be OK as a clue if Silverstein was a red herring, Grizzly was also a children's author and Scarry sounded like scary (and also meant something in the same ballpark as Gory, Grim, and Grisly)

▲ quuxplusone 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Richard Scarry's surname is indeed pronounced "scary," rather than (as I assumed for many years) "scarr-ry."

That is, it rhymes with Harry, Larry, carry, parry, tarry, and marry, rather than... uh, starry, I guess?

	▲	quesera 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Where I come from, Scarry rhymes with Harry, but Harry does not rhyme with scary. `Harry does not rhyme with hairy Scarry does not rhyme with scary Marry does not rhyme with Mary. Nor with merry!` You can probably triangulate my childhood home with that information. :)