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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)The guidelines for rhymes suggest you do not rhyme a word with itself, so I have carefully avoided that situation in the lines below. A diet change to slim my waist: pre-packaged meal-boxes expand my waste. Automatic...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)In October 1963, the US Postal Service (USPS) introduced two-letter abbreviations for the 50 US state-names. Since that time, only one change has been made: in 1969, at the request of the Canadian postal administration,...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)In his 1997 bestselling book, "Brain Droppings," the late George Carlin wrote his famous stage monologue on the violence of football vs. the tameness of baseball. Among other things, he compared football helmets to...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)There are two kinds of cities in this country. There's the big city with the big C--like New York City, Jersey City, Atlantic City, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Carson City, etc. The centers of these...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)This article was inspired by my 5-year-old grand-daughter who once asked me "Do some words have numbers in them, as well as letters?" By 'numbers', I assumed she meant 'digits'. I knew of items like SE7EN (a 1995 film...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)These are similar words, some nearly synonyms, which surprisingly are not etymologically related. This article, continued from the Feb. 2004 Word Ways (p.47), is repeated, without the drawings, in the appendix of my...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)When I lend a small sum, or purchase something for a friend as a favor, I casually offer to waive the debt, accompanying the gesture with the quip: "It's a mere bag of shells." I'm no longer surprised when the...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)A Puzzle: Place these 16 pairs in the 4*4 grid so that every row, column, main and half diagonals anagram into our title. AD, AG (silver), AN, AS, DO, ED, EG (for example), ES (Einsteinium), GI, GO, ID, IN, IS, NE...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Sentences and 2-word phrases are made from words having the same 2 different vowels, in the same order. vowels A and E LACE MAKER, GRACE ARCHER, DATED DALES WALKER JASPER LANE MABEL'S FATHER, FARMER DARREN...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)* REBUSES: 1. CUNW 2. R * O * W 3. SQUEEZE 4. UP 5. CZ! * CENSORED MARY'S LAMB (All 4-letter words have been replaced with non-obscene words.) A student named after the Virgin had a little juvenile sheep,...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)The November 2020 issue of Word Ways will be the last for some time but we will hopefully resume the journal in the future. Word Ways was started in 1968 at the suggestion of the late Martin Gardner. Due to the...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Dr. Stephen Bloom retires from Butler University this May. As an honor puzzle we offer the two-dimensional drawing of the solid cuboctahedron, sometimes called a dymaxion. It is obtained from a cube by cutting off the...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)A word is divided into letter groups ... eg AIS LE S The letter groups are then read in reverse order ... S LE AIS Their sounds make another word... S L Y 1. Single, non-palindromic words with a palindromic sound...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)The search is on for words made exclusively from the letters in alphabetically--adjacent letter pairs: These are the pairs: AB BC CD DE EF FG GH HI IJ JK KL LM MN NO OP PQ QR RS ST TU UV VW WX XY YZ BA CB DC ED FE GF...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)The word under consideration makes another word when either its first or last letter is removed. TONE - T = ONE TONE - E = TON When the word begins and ends with the same letter, the resulting two words are...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Begin with three 4-letter transposals with the letter patterns: The aim is to find other sets of transposals with the same three letter patterns. SUSAN THORPE Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)THE PUZZLE. The nine different letters in MARTIN GARDNER are used three times each in these nine words. AND, ERG, GIN, MEN, RAM, RID, TAG, TED, TIM Place the words in the 3*3 grid so that each row of three, each...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Have you noticed how the English language is being butchered? It's happening all around us from talking heads who spew redundancies, double negatives, tired cliches; to newspapers replete with grammar gaffes; and to...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)Instructions 1.) Each player must take a ziploc bag labelled 'player V or 'player 2'. Both players will remove their cat(pink) or dog(yellow) game piece and place it on the "Start" block on the game board. 2.) Each...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 3)All these words contain a doubled letter. THREE HEADLESS APPARITIONS SUDDENLY APPEARED SLIPPERY NARROW TUNNELS SEEM OPPRESSIVELY SPOOKY MIDDLESEX'S INTELLIGENT PUZZLERS NEED DIFFICULT QUIZZES PADDY APPRECIATED...