Word Puzzle
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Word Puzzle
Spot the common rule/pattern.
EBB
CAGE
DICED
LACKED
CARNAGE
COMEDIAN
COWARDICE
DISCIPLINE
ANTIBIOTICS
No clues.
EBB
CAGE
DICED
LACKED
CARNAGE
COMEDIAN
COWARDICE
DISCIPLINE
ANTIBIOTICS
No clues.
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Re: Word Puzzle
I assume you want answers via PM?
I will PM you mine, of which I am very confident is correct
I will PM you mine, of which I am very confident is correct
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Re: Word Puzzle
Mr. Bolas has got the answer but if anyone else wants to have a crack at it they're more than welcome.
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Re: Word Puzzle
Thank you for the puzzle BenBen Wilson wrote:Mr. Bolas has got the answer but if anyone else wants to have a crack at it they're more than welcome.
It is quite a fun puzzle to solve
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Re: Word Puzzle
To what, pester him until he gives us the answer? OK, I'll give it a go.Ben Wilson wrote:Mr. Bolas has got the answer but if anyone else wants to have a crack at it they're more than welcome.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Re: Word Puzzle
I'm sure a champ, like yourself Kai, can solve this without hintsKai Laddiman wrote:To what, pester him until he gives us the answer? OK, I'll give it a go.Ben Wilson wrote:Mr. Bolas has got the answer but if anyone else wants to have a crack at it they're more than welcome.
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Re: Word Puzzle
I noticed that each word has 1 more letter than the one above it.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
Dinos Sfyris 76 - 78 Dorian Lidell
Proof that even idiots can get well and truly mainwheeled.
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Re: Word Puzzle
That's not an entirely useless piece of information...Kai Laddiman wrote:I noticed that each word has 1 more letter than the one above it.
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Re: Word Puzzle
Hmm... I thought I saw a common rule... And then I realized COMEDIAN would be an exception to that rule...
Back to the drawing board.
Back to the drawing board.
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Re: Word Puzzle
I certainly guessed that number of letters was significant. I'm now going to take those words with me for a couple of nights in the Lake District, and ponder over them.Ben Wilson wrote:That's not an entirely useless piece of information...Kai Laddiman wrote:I noticed that each word has 1 more letter than the one above it.
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Re: Word Puzzle
Sussed it
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Re: Word Puzzle
Got it during a short break on the drive up to the Lakes on Monday. So not having that to do during the following couple of nights, instead I tried in vain to find a word which might follow ANTIBIOTICS.Howard Somerset wrote:I certainly guessed that number of letters was significant. I'm now going to take those words with me for a couple of nights in the Lake District, and ponder over them.
PMming my solution to Ben.
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Re: Word Puzzle
I think I can reveal the answer now, which Joseph, Dinos and Howard all got- converting the letters into numbers e.g. A=1, B=2... Z=26, the sum of the letters in each word is the square of the letters in the word. e.g. E+B+B=5+2+2=9=3^2.
I don't know if there are any 12-letter examples of this but there are certainly 3 more with 11 letters in. Open-ended puzzle time, anyone?
I don't know if there are any 12-letter examples of this but there are certainly 3 more with 11 letters in. Open-ended puzzle time, anyone?
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Re: Word Puzzle
Awesome. Love it.Ben Wilson wrote:I think I can reveal the answer now, which Joseph, Dinos and Howard all got- converting the letters into numbers e.g. A=1, B=2... Z=26, the sum of the letters in each word is the square of the letters in the word. e.g. E+B+B=5+2+2=9=3^2.
I don't know if there are any 12-letter examples of this but there are certainly 3 more with 11 letters in. Open-ended puzzle time, anyone?
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Re: Word Puzzle
Very good puzzle. The thing that helped me solve it was noticing that there was a preponderance of letters from the early part of the alphabet, and then trying to work whether or not that was significant.
What a shame that, with A being valid as a one letter word, there is no 2 letter word that fits.
Loved it, Ben.
What a shame that, with A being valid as a one letter word, there is no 2 letter word that fits.
Loved it, Ben.
Re: Word Puzzle
Rats, I came so close to working out the letter values like that, and then got distracted by something shiny and never went back to it. Arse. Nice puzzle, Ben.
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Re: Word Puzzle
It's taken me a while, but if you were to use the English CSW list, that is included in Zyzzyva, there are a total of 376 words that are 12 letters in length and total 144Ben Wilson wrote:I don't know if there are any 12-letter examples of this but there are certainly 3 more with 11 letters in. Open-ended puzzle time, anyone?
The first alphabetically is ACCULTURATES and the last is WORKABLENESS
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Re: Word Puzzle
In some ways I don't want to know how you worked that out, and yet in others, I do... care to work on the 13s now?Joseph Bolas wrote:It's taken me a while, but if you were to use the English CSW list, that is included in Zyzzyva, there are a total of 376 words that are 12 letters in length and total 144Ben Wilson wrote:I don't know if there are any 12-letter examples of this but there are certainly 3 more with 11 letters in. Open-ended puzzle time, anyone?
The first alphabetically is ACCULTURATES and the last is WORKABLENESS
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Re: Word Puzzle
Going by the same English CSW word list in Zyzzyva alone, there are a total of 249 words that are 13 letters in length and total 169 . The first alphabetically is ACOTYLEDONOUS and the last is YELLOWHAMMERSBen Wilson wrote:In some ways I don't want to know how you worked that out, and yet in others, I do... care to work on the 13s now?Joseph Bolas wrote:It's taken me a while, but if you were to use the English CSW list alone, that is included in Zyzzyva, there are a total of 376 words that are 12 letters in length and total 144
The first alphabetically is ACCULTURATES and the last is WORKABLENESS
Just to also add to this, using the same list alone, there are a total of 77 words that are 14 letters in length and total 196 , starting with ADVENTITIOUSLY and ending with WORDLESSNESSES.
There are also a total of 10 words that are 15 letters in length and total 225 and they are as follows:
FRUCTUOUSNESSES
NONPRODUCTIVITY
NORTHWESTWARDLY
PHOTOTYPOGRAPHY
PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY
PROPYLITIZATION
SUPERSYMMETRIES
TREMULOUSNESSES
ULTRASTRUCTURAL
UNPROGRESSIVELY
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Re: Word Puzzle
Next time you're on msn I'll send you my list of 'extended' csw words (16s and over) :pJoseph Bolas wrote:Going by the same English CSW word list in Zyzzyva alone, there are a total of 249 words that are 13 letters in length and total 169 . The first alphabetically is ACOTYLEDONOUS and the last is YELLOWHAMMERSBen Wilson wrote:In some ways I don't want to know how you worked that out, and yet in others, I do... care to work on the 13s now?Joseph Bolas wrote:It's taken me a while, but if you were to use the English CSW list alone, that is included in Zyzzyva, there are a total of 376 words that are 12 letters in length and total 144
The first alphabetically is ACCULTURATES and the last is WORKABLENESS
Just to also add to this, using the same list alone, there are a total of 77 words that are 14 letters in length and total 196 , starting with ADVENTITIOUSLY and ending with WORDLESSNESSES.
There are also a total of 10 words that are 15 letters in length and total 225 and they are as follows:
FRUCTUOUSNESSES
NONPRODUCTIVITY
NORTHWESTWARDLY
PHOTOTYPOGRAPHY
PHOTOXYLOGRAPHY
PROPYLITIZATION
SUPERSYMMETRIES
TREMULOUSNESSES
ULTRASTRUCTURAL
UNPROGRESSIVELY