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(Message started by: BenVitale on Jul 21^st, 2009, 10:28pm)

Title: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by BenVitale on Jul 21^st, 2009, 10:28pm

Group A:

stone
shiver
seats
flies
theirs

Group B :

sake
screws
bucket
store
softly

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by Noke Lieu on Jul 21^st, 2009, 11:58pm

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

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by veraltus on Oct 18^th, 2009, 1:14pm

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 07/21/09 at 22:28:37, BenVitale wrote:

Group A:

stone
shiver
seats
flies
theirs

Group B :

sake
screws
bucket
store
softly

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by 0.999... on Oct 19^th, 2009, 1:32pm

softly

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 19^th, 2009, 2:55pm

sTORe

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by River Phoenix on Oct 26^th, 2009, 1:40pm

eliminating both the leading and trailing letters, exactly

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by R on Oct 26^th, 2009, 2:44pm

on 10/26/09 at 13:40:42, River Phoenix wrote:

eliminating both the leading and trailing letters, exactly

As others said oft (http://www.google.co.in/search?q=define%3A+oft&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) and tor (http://www.google.co.in/search?q=define%3A+tor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) are valid words.

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by kg on Oct 26^th, 2009, 8:29pm

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

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by River Phoenix on Oct 27^th, 2009, 8:39pm

on 10/26/09 at 14:44:56, R wrote:

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...

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by R on Oct 27^th, 2009, 11:49pm

on 10/27/09 at 20:39:30, River Phoenix wrote:

tor is not much of a word compared to the others, I've never even heard of it...

I gave a link in my last post on "tor". It means "a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill".

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by 0.999... on Oct 28^th, 2009, 1:29pm

This is a world of partial words! Tor is only .75 of a word!

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by towr on Oct 28^th, 2009, 1:59pm

on 10/28/09 at 13:29:23, 0.999... wrote:

This is a world of partial words! Tor is only .75 of a word!

It's also .75 of my name!
Still, it's also 100% of another word.

Title: Re: Which word in Group B will fit in Group A?
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 29^th, 2009, 2:49pm

It's also a publishing imprint