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Benny
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Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« on: Jul 21st, 2009, 10:28pm » |
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Group A:
stone
shiver
seats
flies
theirs
Group B :
sake
screws
bucket
store
softly
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #1 on: Jul 21st, 2009, 11:58pm » |
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Obvious answers to jump on are:
screws
store
(and softly)
which makes me think that either I've got the worng end of a stick, or you don't know word for a cairn on a Ben/munro other than cairn on a munro
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 18th, 2009, 1:14pm » |
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Given this list I choose screws.
In the first group I noticed that you could form a 3 or 4 letter word from each not including the first and last letters.
ton
hive
eat
lie
heir
In the other one, the only word that could do that was screws: crew!
Am I right?
on Jul 21st, 2009, 10:28pm, BenVitale wrote:Group A:
stone
shiver
seats
flies
theirs
Group B :
sake
screws
bucket
store
softly |
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 19th, 2009, 1:32pm » |
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #4 on: Oct 19th, 2009, 2:55pm » |
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sTORe
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #5 on: Oct 26th, 2009, 1:40pm » |
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eliminating both the leading and trailing letters, exactly
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #6 on: Oct 26th, 2009, 2:44pm » |
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on Oct 26th, 2009, 1:40pm, River Phoenix wrote:| eliminating both the leading and trailing letters, exactly |
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As others said oft and tor are valid words.
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #7 on: Oct 26th, 2009, 8:29pm » |
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One approach would be seeing the letter in 3rd position o,i,a,i,e are vowels.
Only word in group B which has 3rd letter vowel is store
There can probably be many other solutions
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #8 on: Oct 27th, 2009, 8:39pm » |
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on Oct 26th, 2009, 2:44pm, R wrote:
As others said oft and tor are valid words. |
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oft doesn't apply because you're removing 2 letters at the end, and tor is not much of a word compared to the others, I've never even heard of it...
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #9 on: Oct 27th, 2009, 11:49pm » |
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on Oct 27th, 2009, 8:39pm, River Phoenix wrote:
tor is not much of a word compared to the others, I've never even heard of it... |
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I gave a link in my last post on "tor". It means "a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill".
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #10 on: Oct 28th, 2009, 1:29pm » |
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This is a world of partial words! Tor is only .75 of a word!
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #11 on: Oct 28th, 2009, 1:59pm » |
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on Oct 28th, 2009, 1:29pm, 0.999... wrote:| This is a world of partial words! Tor is only .75 of a word! |
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It's also .75 of my name!
Still, it's also 100% of another word.
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Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
« Reply #12 on: Oct 29th, 2009, 2:49pm » |
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It's also a publishing imprint
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