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For those that followed Survivor's 'riddle me this' thread in the 'Writing Class' forum, and want to stretch your brains and your word association/analytical skills, we started another, but are going to move it here . . . where it belongs. Here's the first & second posts from it . . . --------------------- So, what do the following words have in common?
Bent Abet Flop First Lot Elms
Shouldn't be too hard, but I hope it's not too easy, either. -------------- JeremyMc's reponse was:
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epiquette, you've got it. And I was kind of brain fried too when I wrote it. You'll notice I don't have any words longer than 4 letters, either. Oh, well. I'll come up with a longer one somewhere.
If the strange lists of words other people are putting down in this forum 'baffle' you, sit down and think about it over 'supper'. You'll see a pattern, though it's the wrong one, and think it's quite 'clever'.
But now for a few more words (along with epiquette's which are COMPLETELY correct) which DO belong on the list.
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So just for the record, the list now stands as:
best most gist nosy aegis cent dent amp act cost Bent Abet Flop First Lot Elms
and no other words have been admitted as belonging to the list.
One of the first things that I'll notice is that all of these words are short, but Falken is mistaken (I hope) when he says, "You'll notice I don't have any words longer than 4 letters, either."(though at that time he had not added "aegis" to the list).
I will suggest,
army (I don't know if this works with the parameters I think Falken is using) age einkorn (yes this is a word) facetious?
Okay, I'll give up with that last one. If that's not on the list then I'm back to square one.
I just figured it out, and I'm both deliciously right and completely wrong, not one of my examples belong on this list, they all belong on a closely related list that necessarially encompasses all words on Falken's list.
SUBTLE HINT! ---->> Survivor's rule only applies to vowels <<----
. . . right?
Took me a while to figure that out. And no, I hadn't added aegis to the list when I said no 4+ letter words, but (*sheepishly*) I had added 'first' to the list. DOH!
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A request - please don't give the answer away on the list quite yet. If someone must know now and can't wait, please give the answer privately. I haven't a clue either, but I'm trying to figure it out.
Now, that said, I guess a clue that wouldn't completely give away the answer might be in order for those of us who are clueless <grin>, but I'm still happy struggling along.
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I just mean, I don't think I really understand what kind of game this is. Am I to recognize a pattern, and then based on that pattern list some words of my own?
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You're right, "cellos" is an interesting case. Thinking about it, I don't think it would fit, though. But it might, depending on the semantics of the rule.
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I thought about it and decided not to include words such as 'cello' 'abcess' 'access' 'bellow' and 'egg' simply to avoid confusion, though the way I had envisioned it, those would still work.
In any case, it's not WRONG, just might not fit exactly 100% with the rest of the words.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Are all palindromes part of the first list, or only certain ones? And how...but I begin to see, words like I, Saw, and Elba. I've always doubted that Napolean actually said that. So Naomi...is not an example. Nor are Succor, Smear, or any of my shots in the dark, I fear.
Raw, Rats, Tuber, I can't help but feel that there would be a clever little ditty about the exingencies of human conflict and the French diet.
tuber moor pool rat evil war bat pots no way pans bats sore gib smug snot tuba dog deer
And ALL palindromes work with this rule. By definition they HAVE to work with this rule. Right epi?
{edit} Well, originally, those were supposed to look like two columns, but the spacing doesn't come out right. There's nothing magical about the word pairs. That's just two columns of words.{/edit}
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