What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in every year.
Twice in a week but never in a day?-------------Using the letter grid below, how many words can you find. Each word must contain the central H and no letter can be used twice, however, the letters do not have to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is at least one nine letter word. Advanced: 50+ words. Average: 25 words. All words can be found in the Oxford Wordpower dictionary.
Here are couple to start you off: ache, heart ...
R
C
O
E
H
S
R
T
A
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Mr and Mrs Haines have three daughters and each daughter has two brothers. How many children do Mr and Mrs Haines have?-------------
Don't cheat! Because if you did, the test would be no fun. I promise, there are no tricks to the test. Read the sentence below and count the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again. See solutions for your score.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
all questions were taken from here w/ solutions
8 comments:
1) didn't get, I was never very good at riddles
2) I think I got 45 (I checked most against an online scrabble site). I was also working under the assumption that the grid had to meaning (they say they don't have to be connected) so I just thought of as many words as I could given those letters. I can post the ones I got later after more people have a chance.
3) got it ... I just heard a similar riddle the other day somewhere
4) I didn't find them all, just the "average" amount :(
Don't worry Ben. I just found the average amount too. The weird thing was, I didn't actually read the passage. I just scanned the lines for the letter f. Apparently the word "of" is short enough that my brain can recognize it and block out the f without me realizing I read "of".
i'm just gunna post this answer to the page you linked...
2) ache, heart, and orchestra are obvious, in total i got 26 words before giving up... the killer is that it must contain the H... ugh... i had ~60 before i noticed the H rule
6) number: 23, *2 = 46, +8 = 54, *9 = 486, sum = 18 = 9, -5 = 4, 4th letter is D, country with D is Djibouti, last letter is I, animal with I is iguana, color that starts with a? is there one??
good questions, though often used on pages like that.
the last one on puzzlexor is like the big triangle that reads:
the
birds
ate the
the worms
where most people miss the third "the" when reading aloud
1) the letter e
2) I got 76 words
3) 5 kids
4) I missed every OF which blows me away because I had read Chas's post the day before and forgot
6) can't think of any color that starts with a and someone can't count: 1,2,3,4,6?
7) Name english words that start with "dw..."
I thought you miscounted b/c I didn't see the site with from which they came until after I posted
how on earth did you find 76 words that contain the letter H?
I just sat there thinking and adding to my list until I exhausted my memory. Then there were about 6 that I was unsure about, so I checked those against a dictionary, and had to drop 4 of them as nonsense (orig 80).
Here they are:
ache
aches
arch
arches
ash
ashore
cash
char
chars
chart
charter
charters
charts
chaste
chat
chats
chest
chore
chores
chose
crash
cresh
each
etch
etcher
ethos
harsh
harsher
hart
harts
haste
hat
hate
hates
hats
hear
hears
heart
hearts
heat
heats
hero
hoar
hoe
hoes
host
hosta
ochre
ochres
osh
other
others
rash
rather
reach
rhea
rheas
roach
roaches
scathe
search
share
she
shoe
shore
short
shot
starch
that
the
those
throe
throes
torch
torches
trash
I don't recall. Were there rules about minimum length, like in Boggle?
btw, I never checked the rest of them. if you can poke holes in any of them, let me know.
for example, hart is a type of deer, I think in either england or on continental europe. but what is the plural?
I never looked the rest up, I just believed I was right, so let me know if some are invalid.
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