What A Word!

[thithi]

c a w h i n d s

sandwich

i o l o h f s

[Seapok]

Foolish

g r i f n o e v

[grandslam]

forgiven

a n t o d b c n r a

[Seapok]

Contraband

c c o o o a a n m t i d

[wolf5370]

Contraband

c c o o o a a n m t i d

Sure that's one word?

A Atomic Condo?

[Seapok]

Contraband

c c o o o a a n m t i d

Sure that's one word?

A Atomic Condo?

Ooooops! sorry I forgot an M

c c o o o a a n m t i d m

[wolf5370]

Ah now that would be: accommodation

EEAAIRPTTX

[Ping]

accommodation

ignore - too late - see above

[zzdocxx]

s i n n e c r u a

OK did we ever get the answer to this one? I cheated and put it in a word unscrambler and it said no such word. But it also said that about xenophobia.

Anyway these puzzles are rather hard, how do you solve them, brute force, or insight?

[thithi]

some of the words above there took me several hours to solve though.

EEAAIRPTTX - i have no idea about this one.

[Seapok]

s i n n e c r u a = Insurance

EEAAIRPTTX = Expatriate

y g n o i l p a m

[zzdocxx]

It's a good one, I cheated and looked.

I'm thinking you guys would be good in a job that required that type of persistence and intelligence.

If I were more ambitious, I would probably solve it by putting all the letters in a column, then trying each remaining letter as the second letter, then each remaining as the third, and hope that something would start to jump out at me by that point. For a ten letter word, that would work out to 10! (factorial) combinations if all the letters were used, or something like that. Maybe just the first three would be 10! minus 7! Okay that's reaching way back into my math memories, just rambling here.

Would that be cheating? Or do you guys just do it all in your head until it comes to you?

[Seapok]

It's a good one, I cheated and looked.

I'm thinking you guys would be good in a job that required that type of persistence and intelligence.

If I were more ambitious, I would probably solve it by putting all the letters in a column, then trying each remaining letter as the second letter, then each remaining as the third, and hope that something would start to jump out at me by that point. For a ten letter word, that would work out to 10! (factorial) combinations if all the letters were used, or something like that. Maybe just the first three would be 10! minus 7! Okay that's reaching way back into my math memories, just rambling here.

Would that be cheating? Or do you guys just do it all in your head until it comes to you?

I would like to tell you how but I can't give away my secrets, if I told you I would have to kill you!

[cashill]

Broadband

d d b b a a r a n o ....?????????????????????????????????????

cawhinds

[Seapok]

Broadband

d d b b a a r a n o ....?????????????????????????????????????

cawhinds

Well spotted, too many a's!!

[Ping]

Where are we up to? If the current word is:

y g n o i l p a m

then no-one has solved it yet.

[zzdocxx]

Pygmalion?

So proper names are allowed?

pheocyraxert

[thithi]

no proper names - it's hard for me to guess!

[pumpuiman]

pheocyraxert

is this missing an "a"?

[pumpuiman]

duplicate post

[zzdocxx]

pheocyraxert

is this missing an "a"?

Oh yes, well I am American if that helps.

[pumpuiman]

pheocyraxert

is this missing an "a"?

Oh yes, well I am American if that helps.

Nope, no help.....is it missing the letter "a" and does it refer to an animal?

[zzdocxx]

Hmmm, yes actually I have seen it spelled with an additional "a", and without, all over the internet.

So I'm certain you have got the right word! ! !

And come to think of it, your spelling is probably more kurrect than mine.

[pumpuiman]

I had to check the spelling too.....I remembered the bird from an old cartoon, strange how the mind works.

Archaeopteryx

klleeuu

[cashill]

ukelule

mynana

[pumpuiman]

it's ukulele

manyana? .....Spanish??

tooieerrpfl

[Crossy]

profiterole

how about

Aha Visit

EDIT Oops proper name try

Aarcmatan

[pumpuiman]

profiterole

how about

Aha Visit

EDIT Oops proper name try

Aarcmatan

Catamaran......can't believe you got profiterole!!

awbkrul

[zzdocxx]

Catamaran?

OK on mynana I cheated and took a look, but either of the words it could make, I never heard of.

Was arch(a)eopteryx too esoteric too?

(edit) oops you beat me to the punch!

[zzdocxx]

Bulwark?

I've never heard of a profiterole.

I'd like a ruling from the judges, should this be limited to words regular people like me have heard of? ? ?