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what property do these states share?
« on: May 6th, 2004, 9:47am » |
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States of the Union
These have a property that no others have. What is it?
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MN
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OK
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #1 on: May 6th, 2004, 11:52am » |
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I don't stay in any of those. 
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #2 on: May 6th, 2004, 1:21pm » |
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on May 6th, 2004, 11:52am, Sameer wrote:| I don't stay in any of those. |
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And you do stay in all the others? Otherwise that can't be the property we're looking for..
Or was it just a random statement?
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #3 on: May 6th, 2004, 1:25pm » |
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Aaaahhh...I see Sameer is giving the old "Cliff Claven" answer.
:: for those of you who didn't see the episode of Cheers where Cliff (the postman) goes on the gameshow Jeopardy, he answers the Final Jeopardy question "Who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?")::
As I read the question, I call to mind :: the numbers of states and/or bodies of water that each of these borders. Most seem to have 5...though not all. :: With that, I'm out of ideas. 
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #4 on: May 6th, 2004, 4:47pm » |
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Well, I was going pretty good on one idea, but WA sort of shot it out of the air. Anyway, they all have 4 vowels in them, if you count Y, but not if you count WA. Boo Hoo 
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #5 on: May 6th, 2004, 5:43pm » |
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I thought of that one too, but it gets shot down by South Dakota before Washington ever gets a crack at it (and if you meant distinct vowels, then Arizona flunks out right at the start).
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #6 on: May 6th, 2004, 5:54pm » |
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ahhh, thats what WA is. Thought it was Western Australia 
need to get a map of America. Wouldn't know one end from the other.
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #7 on: May 6th, 2004, 6:03pm » |
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I think that is a good point. There is a lot of words that seem to indicate the USofA, but do not specifically say that.
So, a pot shot in the dark. They all are the abbreviations of states in the USA and other states outside the USA......
No evidence, just a guess....
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #8 on: May 6th, 2004, 6:06pm » |
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Good point. For those of you from "out of town",
AZ = Arizona
DE = Delaware
MN = Minnesota
NH = New Hampshire
NJ = New Jersey
NM = New Mexico
OK = Oklahoma
SD = South Dakota
WA = Washington
The complete list of USA postal abbreviations (states, territories, "military states") can be found here.
Which brings up the question: Are there any US territories that also share this property?
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #9 on: May 6th, 2004, 9:43pm » |
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Hehehe. Think I have it, my dear watson. Will check further.
Thanks Icarus for that.
[disappointment] Poop. Periodically, flashes like that pay off though. A breif glance at that list yeilded none of these states share the symbol of elements. A thourough one yeilded Texas etc....[/disappointment]
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #10 on: May 7th, 2004, 9:08am » |
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I'm pretty sure I have the answer. Actually it was a co-worker that discovered it.
The set is exclusive for US States. However there are other members of the set:
US Territories and districts:
DC = Washington DC
AS = American Samoa
Canadian Provinces:
NB = New Brunswick
YT = Yukon Territories
Clue #1:
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The puzzle would have been harder if Disoriented had used the full state names rather than abbreviations.
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Clue #2:
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My coworker discovered the solution while trying to cheat. He started entering the postal codes into google, but stopped before hitting the search button. He had already discovered the property.
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The letters in the abbreviation are adjacent on the keyboard (QWERTY style).
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The "hidden" text is showing in preview mode. If it is not really hidden, would one of the moderators fix it please?
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #11 on: May 7th, 2004, 1:07pm » |
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You got it amstrad. Nice job 
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #12 on: May 7th, 2004, 6:23pm » |
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That is pretty good. But, a little frustrating, because I also typed them out in a Word doc. Then I tried to make an anagram out of them, but I did not notice when I was typing. And, of course as soon as I saw your answer was correct, I peeked at it.
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #13 on: May 7th, 2004, 7:50pm » |
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[quote]A breif glance at that list yeilded none of these states share the symbol of elements. A thourough one yeilded Texas etc.... [quote]
If it was abbreviations of elements, that would have been a very good question too. Maybe too late to ask it now. Guessing at this sure leads to many potentially good questions.
Don't forget Manganese = Minnesota. What element is Tx?  Perhaps you thought the state abbreviation of Texas is Te? BTW, how come the abbreviation of California is CA, but for Californium it is Cf?
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #14 on: May 9th, 2004, 10:07pm » |
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There are loads of them....
Tx was the on that jumped down my throat saying it was a flawed idea. Then others followed. I guess the tags should have gone
[excitement]....[/excitement][disappointment]
Tell you what- wait long enough, and people will have forgotten this little diversion...
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #15 on: May 9th, 2004, 10:36pm » |
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This is kind of silly, but this is the only place to do it, so expect silliness....
Delaware DE
New Jersey NJ
Idaho ID
Maryland MD
Iowa IA
Washington WA
Wisconsin WI
Nebraska NE
Tennessee TN
Arkansas AR
Florida FL
Missouri MO
Oregon OR
Oklahoma OK
California CA
Hawaii HI
Mississippi MS
Minnesota MN
What do these states and their pairing and the entire series inidicate.... What do they have that no other states have.... or whatever... 
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Re: what property do these states share?
« Reply #16 on: May 10th, 2004, 12:46pm » |
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on May 9th, 2004, 10:36pm, Speaker wrote:
If you add "West Virginia WV" to this list, I'd guess the answer to be "inbreeding."
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Re: what property do these states share?
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Now, now now. Lets play nice. However, with that said; "A certain familiarity with the loquation and verbiage of the dialects common to those--and other--areas would point one's search of the elusive answer of this query in a fortuitous direction."
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« Reply #18 on: May 11th, 2004, 9:39am » |
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