Yesterday Ms May Iris correctly worked out that the ant in question was a Honey Pot Ant. There has been so much internet interest in this game that this morning everyone had assembled in the kitchen to see what was occurring — even reclusive Uncle Zoltan!
'Oh, the Gold Sovereign Ant!' he remarked casually as he passed the card in question, 'So-called because of its resemblance to a Gold Sovereign, and frequently passed off as such during Victoria's reign.'
Wilson rolled his eyes and snorted on hearing such codswallop and went off with his crayons to prepare some more cards — he'd only made two, and now they've both been guessed.
However, you're probably anxious to understand the clue Wilson gave for this question, "This mixed-up fellow has false foot phalanges."
Phalanges are the bones in the fingers and toes, so foot phalanges refers to a toe. False is a synonym for phony, so: Phony Toe. Mixed-up suggests an anagram, and an anagram of phony toe is Honeypot, hence the answer. QED.
As Wilson had left the kitchen, I took the Bees aside and asked them whether they'd noticed anything amiss with him.
They looked awkwardly at each other and shuffled their feet, before Polly took a deep breath and spoke…
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