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rokapoke

Guest
February 26
Rearrange the initial letters of the seven objects represented to make a word that punnily describes difficult-to-decipher drawings.


Answers:
Ugh.... SKETCHY.
That's a great pun. No, really.
 
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DarthFerret

Guest
turgy22;279713 said:
Rearrange the initial letters of the seven objects represented to make a word that punnily describes difficult-to-decipher drawings.
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February 26th Answers:

Sketchy
 
Mooseman

Mooseman

Isengar Tussle
turgy22;279713 said:
Rearrange the initial letters of the seven objects represented to make a word that punnily describes difficult-to-decipher drawings.
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February 26th Answers:

S - Sun
K - Kangaroo
E - Eagle
T - Tire
C - Crab
H - Horseshoe
Y - Yoyo
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
February 27th - Garden Party
Fill in the blanks to make common, uncapitalized English words. The letters you put in the blanks, when read left to right, will spell out shorter words that have something in common.

O N _ _ A _ _ H T
S _ _ _ D S _ A N S H I P
I _ _ O R _ N _
_ S _ _ Y X _ A T E _
I N _ _ _ _ E D _ A _ _


February 28th - Tom Swifty
Unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the order of words to create a Tom Swifty sentence. (Tom always speaks adverbially.)

EKLA MOT PLACDIYL DISA I WGRE PU NO LLYOVE HTIS


February 26th Answer:

sketchy
 
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rokapoke

Guest
February 28th - Tom Swifty
Unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the order of words to create a Tom Swifty sentence. (Tom always speaks adverbially.)

EKLA MOT PLACDIYL DISA I WGRE PU NO LLYOVE HTIS


Answer:
I grew up on this lovely lake, said Tom placidly.
 
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rokapoke

Guest
February 27th - Garden Party
Fill in the blanks to make common, uncapitalized English words. The letters you put in the blanks, when read left to right, will spell out shorter words that have something in common.

O N _ _ A _ _ H T
S _ _ _ D S _ A N S H I P
I _ _ O R _ N _
_ S _ _ Y X _ A T E _
I N _ _ _ _ E D _ A _ _


Answer:
onSLaUGht
sWORdsManship
?
AsPHyxIateD
?

They're all garden-related creatures. Slug, worm, aphid... and I can't figure out the other two.
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
March 1st
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

After a hard-fought ________, the military commander swallowed an aspirin ________.


March 2nd - Capital Idea
Name the capital of each of these U.S. states. Then take a letter from the same position in each word and, without rearranging, read the letters down to get other capital. Be careful!

Oregon
California
Texas
Florida
New York


February 27th Answers:

ONSLAUGHT
SWORDSMANSHIP
IGNORANT
ASPHYXIATED
INTERMEDIATE
The shorter words - SLUG, WORM, GNAT, APHID, and TERMITE - are all critters found in a garden.

February 28th Answer:

"I grew up on this lovely lake," Tom said placidly.
 
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rokapoke

Guest
March 1st
What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same six letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

After a hard-fought ________, the military commander swallowed an aspirin ________.



Answer:
BATTLE, TABLET


March 2nd - Capital Idea
Name the capital of each of these U.S. states. Then take a letter from the same position in each word and, without rearranging, read the letters down to get other capital. Be careful!

Oregon
California
Texas
Florida
New York


Answers:
Salem
Sacremento
Austin
Tallahassee
Albany

"Read the letters down to get other capital." It's another pun -- the last letters spell out MONEY. Yay for puns.
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
In the eight-term sequence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the sum of any three consecutive terms is 14. If B = 7 and F = 4, determine the value of D.


March 1st Answer:

battle, tablet

March 2nd Answers:

Salem, Sacramento, Austin, Tallahassee, Albany. Take the last letter of each state capital to get other capital: MONEY
 
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rokapoke

Guest
March 3

In the eight-term sequence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the sum of any three consecutive terms is 14. If B = 7 and F = 4, determine the value of D.


Answer:
(1) C + D = 7
(2) D + E = 10
(3) C + D + E = 14

Combining (1) and (3), E = 7.
Ergo, D = 3.
 
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EricBess

Guest
March 3

In the eight-term sequence A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, the sum of any three consecutive terms is 14. If B = 7 and F = 4, determine the value of D.


Answer:
An additional observation. If any 3 consecutive terms add to 14, then this must be a repeating pattern of 3 numbers. Noting then that B=E, then D, E, and F are the 3 numbers (ie, the numbers of interest don't overlap). We know two (4, 7), so the third must add to 14, so D=3.
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks with four words that each differ by one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in each word, as in bake, bale, base, bane.

The carpenter's ________ for the evening were to use a ________ to smooth the wooden ________ and to water the flowering ________.


March 3rd Answer:

3
 
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DarthFerret

Guest
turgy22;280192 said:
Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks with four words that each differ by one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in each word, as in bake, bale, base, bane.

The carpenter's ________ for the evening were to use a ________ to smooth the wooden ________ and to water the flowering ________.
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March 4th Answer:

Plans, Plane, Plank, Plant
 
Mooseman

Mooseman

Isengar Tussle
turgy22;280192 said:
Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks with four words that each differ by one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in each word, as in bake, bale, base, bane.

The carpenter's ________ for the evening were to use a ________ to smooth the wooden ________ and to water the flowering ________.
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March 4th Answer:
Plans, Plane, Plank, Plant
 
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rokapoke

Guest
March 4
Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks with four words that each differ by one letter. The changed letter will be in the same position in each word, as in bake, bale, base, bane.

The carpenter's ________ for the evening were to use a ________ to smooth the wooden ________ and to water the flowering ________.


Answer:
Plans, plane, plank, plant
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
The words in Group A share a common trait and are in a certain order. Which word in Group B also has that trait and follows next?

Group A
INDEFENSIBLE
AFGHANISTAN
COUGHING
CALMNESS
MONOPOLY

Group B
PARSNIP
THOUGHTFUL
CORNERSTONE
VIEWPOINT
EXPRESSWAY


March 4th Answers:

plans, plane, plank, plant
 
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rokapoke

Guest
March 5

The words in Group A share a common trait and are in a certain order. Which word in Group B also has that trait and follows next?

Group A
INDEFENSIBLE
AFGHANISTAN
COUGHING
CALMNESS
MONOPOLY

Group B
PARSNIP
THOUGHTFUL
CORNERSTONE
VIEWPOINT
EXPRESSWAY


Answer:
Each word has three alphabetically-ordered letters in a row...
inDEFensible
aFGHanistan
couGHIng
caLMNess
moNOPoly

So the next word in the sequence is:
corneRSTone
 
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Ransac

CPA Trash Man
turgy22;280255 said:
The words in Group A share a common trait and are in a certain order. Which word in Group B also has that trait and follows next?

Group A
INDEFENSIBLE
AFGHANISTAN
COUGHING
CALMNESS
MONOPOLY

Group B
PARSNIP
THOUGHTFUL
CORNERSTONE
VIEWPOINT
EXPRESSWAY
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March 5th Answers:

Each word in group A contains three alphabetically ordered letters (DEF, FGH, GHI, LMN, NOP). The next word is Cornerstone (RST)


Ransac, cpa trash man
 
turgy22

turgy22

Nothing Special
March 6th
March 6 is a "perfect sum" day because if we write today's date in the form 03/06/09, the sum of the month and day equals the year (3 + 6 = 9). Including today, how many "perfect sum" days are there in the 21st century?


March 7th - Two Together
Choose two consonants and repeat them as many times as needed to complete this crisscross puzzle. All vowels have already been placed. All words are common, uncapitalized, unhyphenated English words.

. . _ I _ E . . .
. . . . I . _ O _
. _ U _ A . . O .
_ . _ I _ _ A _ _
A . . . _ . _ E A
_ I _ _ A . E . _
A . I . . . . . .
. E _ E E . . . .


March 5th Answer:

CORNERSTONE
Each word contains a sequence of three consecutive letters of the alphabet. These sequences appear in alphabetical order so the next word in order is cornerstone.
 
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rokapoke

Guest
March 7th - Two Together
Choose two consonants and repeat them as many times as needed to complete this crisscross puzzle. All vowels have already been placed. All words are common, uncapitalized, unhyphenated English words.

. . _ I _ E . . .
. . . . I . _ O _
. _ U _ A . . O .
_ . _ I _ _ A _ _
A . . . _ . _ E A
_ I _ _ A . E . _
A . I . . . . . .
. E _ E E . . . .


Answer:

. . P i P e . . .
. . . . i . P o P
. P u P a . . o .
P . P i Z Z a Z Z
a . . . Z . P e a
P i Z Z a . e . P
a . i . . . . . .
. e P e e . . . .

The two consonants are P and Z, which became obvious (to me) from epee and ooze.
 
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