| Author | Message | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 84 Registered: 8-2008 |
Okay... here is my first puzzle; I hope it is okay.... What a unique word! | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1539 Registered: 3-2006 |
Unique in meaning? In spelling? In the content of its letters? An English word? Is any extraneous story attached, or can we guess the word simply from its properties? Anything to do with the vowels and consonants? Is the meaning of the word "unique" relevant? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 85 Registered: 8-2008 |
Unique in meaning? no In spelling? no In the content of its letters? no, but... An English word? yes Is any extraneous story attached no, or can we guess the word simply from its properties? yes Anything to do with the vowels and consonants? yes Is the meaning of the word "unique" relevant? no | ||
| Howardwoman (Howardwoman)
New member Username: Howardwoman Post Number: 80 Registered: 1-2008 |
Wild guess, does the word have every vowel in the English language listed in the word in order? Is the word one letter long? Two? Three? Four? Five? Six? Seven? Eight? Nine? Ten? More? Does the word describe itself? As in, the word, "word?" Or something along those lines? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3716 Registered: 12-2000 |
Is the word unique unique? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 86 Registered: 8-2008 |
Wild guess, does the word have every vowel in the English language listed in the word in order? no Is the word one letter long? Two? Three? Four? Five? this one Six? Seven? Eight? Nine? Ten? More? Does the word describe itself? no As in, the word, "word?" no Or something along those lines? no Is the word unique unique? no | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1541 Registered: 3-2006 |
Euouae? Sjamboks? [actually this probably isn't strictly unique but it's prettier than the others with this property] Mvule? Mridang? Sbirro? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1542 Registered: 3-2006 |
Ooops! Cross-posted. Ignore all my guesses with more than five letters, then. Sorry about that :-) | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 87 Registered: 8-2008 |
Woodworm (Woodworm) Euouae? Sjamboks? [actually this probably isn't strictly unique but it's prettier than the others with this property] Mvule? Mridang? Sbirro? no to all | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1544 Registered: 3-2006 |
Xerox? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 90 Registered: 8-2008 |
Woodworm: Xerox? no | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1547 Registered: 3-2006 |
Hmmm, maybe wild guesses are not the way to go. :-) Is it a palindrome? Composed of symmetrical letters? Is it the same in a mirror? Viewed upside down? Are scrabble values relevant? Other languages relevant? Are its letters in alphabetical order? Is the QWERTY keyboard relevant at all? | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1548 Registered: 3-2006 |
Another thought: it isn't "WHATA", is it? (Just thinking of your statement). | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 91 Registered: 8-2008 |
Hmmm, maybe wild guesses are not the way to go. :-) :o) Is it a palindrome? no Composed of symmetrical letters? no Is it the same in a mirror? no Viewed upside down? no Are scrabble values relevant? no Other languages relevant? no Are its letters in alphabetical order? yes Is the QWERTY keyboard relevant at all? no Another thought: it isn't "WHATA", is it? (Just thinking of your statement). no | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1555 Registered: 10-2001 |
Is it unique because it is the longets word with all letters in alphabetical order? Other reason? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 93 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is it unique because it is the longest word with all letters in alphabetical order? no, but OTRT... Other reason? yes | ||
| Howardwoman (Howardwoman)
New member Username: Howardwoman Post Number: 81 Registered: 1-2008 |
Piggy-backing off Woodworm, is it a palindrome? | ||
| Howardwoman (Howardwoman)
New member Username: Howardwoman Post Number: 82 Registered: 1-2008 |
Whoops sorry, please ignore my previous post | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 94 Registered: 8-2008 |
Whoops sorry, please ignore my previous post. no problem! :o) | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1559 Registered: 10-2001 |
Is the order of the letters (alphabetical) the crucial thing? Yet there is another reason for it's uniqueness? Is there some other pattern in the letters? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 95 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is the order of the letters (alphabetical) the crucial thing? yes Yet there is another reason for it's uniqueness? yesish Is there some other pattern in the letters? no | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1561 Registered: 10-2001 |
Is it a commonly known word? Or is it obscure? Do the 5 letters run concurrently one after the other in the alphabet? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 96 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is it a commonly known word? yes Or is it obscure? no Do the 5 letters run concurrently one after the other in the alphabet? no | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3738 Registered: 12-2000 |
ghoti? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 97 Registered: 8-2008 |
ghoti? no | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3741 Registered: 12-2000 |
Shame - we'd have had three fish puzzles in a row! | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1566 Registered: 10-2001 |
hmm this is a poser. Is it a noun / verb / adjective? Englsih word? Is it rooted in another language like latin? Is it an americanism? modern word - coined in the last 100 years? | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1567 Registered: 10-2001 |
Shame - we'd have had three fish puzzles in a row! - a fish that sounds like a beard!? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3743 Registered: 12-2000 |
Beroean - not quite sure whether you're joking :-), but for anyone who doesn't 'get it', lookee here http://tinyurl.com/3gonle And so as not to threadjack for too long Is it a word that we would use everyday? Is it a verb, noun, adjective? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3745 Registered: 12-2000 |
Sorry!! Ignore previous thread, didn't read Beroen's!! I'll try and thik of something else | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 98 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is it a noun / verb / adjective? adjective and noun Englsih word? yes Is it rooted in another language like latin? not sure, but irr Is it an americanism? no modern word - coined in the last 100 years? no Is it a word that we would use everyday? yesish Is it a verb, noun, adjective? see above | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 99 Registered: 8-2008 |
The word comes from Middle English and Old English.... I looked it up. | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3746 Registered: 12-2000 |
Is it a word that a child would learn very early on? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 100 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is it a word that a child would learn very early on? yesish | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 3747 Registered: 12-2000 |
Does it look like an old fashioned word? Is it used as a name? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 101 Registered: 8-2008 |
Does it look like an old fashioned word? Is it used as a name? no to both | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1549 Registered: 3-2006 |
If I were to use a simple A=1, B=2 ... cipher, would the letters of the word form a logical sequence? An arithmetic sequence? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 102 Registered: 8-2008 |
If I were to use a simple A=1, B=2 ... cipher, would the letters of the word form a logical sequence? no sequence other than the one that has already been determined in a previous post An arithmetic sequence? see previous answer | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1550 Registered: 3-2006 |
Is there a clue in the puzzle statement? Is it FIRST? (This would fit the bill in all respects but I can't quite figure out why it's unique: maybe the only five-letter-word with three consecutive letters of the alphabet and all letters alphabetical?) | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 103 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is there a clue in the puzzle statement? no Is it FIRST? no (This would fit the bill in all respects but I can't quite figure out why it's unique: maybe the only five-letter-word with three consecutive letters of the alphabet and all letters alphabetical?) the word 'first' fits the reason why the word I chose is unique in that all of the letters are in alphabetical order... what you need to do now is find the category my word fits in, and then discover the word itself..... | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1576 Registered: 10-2001 |
Is the category a matter of language? e.g. nouns/adjectives? Or is the category something outside of langauage? e.g. names of animals / countries etc? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 104 Registered: 8-2008 |
Is the category a matter of language? e.g. nouns/adjectives? no Or is the category something outside of language? yes.... e.g. names of animals / countries etc? but neither of these | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1580 Registered: 10-2001 |
Could I find the category that this word fits in by looking at groups of nouns? For example: tangible items? living things? man-made things? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 110 Registered: 8-2008 |
Could I find the category that this word fits in by looking at groups of nouns? yes For example: tangible items? yesish living things? no man-made things? yesish I hope the 'yesish' answers are not misleading. | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 231 Registered: 6-2008 |
Are they a type of geographic location? cities? counties? Are they items a person could (realistically) own? that could fit in a room? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 111 Registered: 8-2008 |
Are they a type of geographic location? cities? counties? no to all Are they items a person could (realistically) own? that could fit in a room? they, in and of themselves, are not tangible; examples of them can be tangible or non-tangible, so it would depend on how you wish to make them tangible; i realize this seems bizarre, so if you want to look, here is a hint: we first start learning about these either at home before we begin school, or if not, in school at our entrance level | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 112 Registered: 8-2008 |
Well, I tried to hide the hint... it didn't work... lol! :o) | ||
| Beroean (Beroean)
Moderator Username: Beroean Post Number: 1583 Registered: 10-2001 |
The reason it didn't work was because it happened to be posted in a gray strip - the white always shows up in a gray strip! Next time, if you post in a white strip it will be invisible! So are "they" more conceptual than tangible? Are they akin to: emotions? manners? facts of life? academic knowledge? academic skills? examinations? medical issues? stages of development? | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 114 Registered: 8-2008 |
The reason it didn't work was because it happened to be posted in a gray strip - the white always shows up in a gray strip! Next time, if you post in a white strip it will be invisible! I suspected that had something to do with it. Thanks! :o) So are "they" more conceptual than tangible? yes Are they akin to: emotions? manners? facts of life? academic knowledge? yes academic skills? examinations? medical issues? stages of development? | ||
| Howardwoman (Howardwoman)
New member Username: Howardwoman Post Number: 85 Registered: 1-2008 |
Letters? Numbers? Colors? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 232 Registered: 6-2008 |
The suggestion of numbers gave me a hint: How about the number "forty", it seems like it must be the highest number to have all its letters in alphabetical order when written in words. Fifty, sixty, etc. don't work, and anything with "hundred", "thousand", or "million" in it won't work either. | ||
| Bigpurple (Bigpurple)
New member Username: Bigpurple Post Number: 115 Registered: 8-2008 |
You are almost exactly right, so I will post a ************$p0i1er************ "Forty' is not the highest number, it is the ONLY number where all letters are in alphabetical order. Thanks to all who participated in my first puzzle! :o) | ||
| Woodworm (Woodworm)
New member Username: Woodworm Post Number: 1559 Registered: 3-2006 |
Fantastic. I just turned 40 this year and still didn't get it. Must be in denial. Actually, "first" is the only ordinal number with letters in alphabetical order, so a consolation prize there. I was convinced that was it, because it was your first puzzle. The simplest puzzles are the best, aren't they? |
