Word Games

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:56 am

5 - Hamlet

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:10 am

Hamlet is one of them but it's not five.

Five is the only one I missed.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:12 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:15 am
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:08 am 4. Julius Caesar

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1. Midsummer 2. Romeo and Juliet 3. MacBeth 4. Julius Caesar 5. Hamlet

well done sir

Not even close!

ETA: The spoliers I mean. Am i missing a joke?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:01 am

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The number of champagne bottles sold in 2018 v. The number of champagne sold in 2017
The number of EU member states v. The number of days in a non-leap year February
Blue Apron's market cap v. Twitter's Q4 2018 revenue
Average tech job salary in Austin TX v. Average tech job salary in Atlanta, GA

[+] spoiler: <, = , <, >

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:49 am

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[+] spoiler: Only sure of #2

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:35 am

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:49 am >

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Only sure of #2

[+] spoiler: No you ain't

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:12 am

BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:35 am
Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:49 am >

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Only sure of #2

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No you ain't

[+] spoiler: But there are 27 EU members.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:14 am

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:12 am
BSF21 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:35 am
Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:49 am >

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Only sure of #2

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No you ain't

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But there are 27 EU members.

[+] spoiler: take it up with the quizmaster

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:38 pm

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Netflix subscribers globally // Population of Russia
Number of Americans 18-34 without a steady romantic partner // 51%
Harvard University endowment // Endowments of MIT + UPenn
Corporate tax rate in the U.S. // Average corporate tax rate in Europe

[+] spoiler: less than, equal, greater, greater

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Mar 27, 2019 8:45 pm

In the multiplication problem below, each digit has been replaced by a letter. Can you determine the value of each letter?
BOB
x BOB
__________
MEOY
MILO
MEOY
____________
MARELY

[+] spoiler: B = 3 O = 5 M = 1 A = 2 R = 4 L = 6 E = 0 Y = 9 I = 7
https://gottfriedville.net/mathprob/crypt-marley.html

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:02 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:38 pm ><=
Netflix subscribers globally // Population of Russia
Number of Americans 18-34 without a steady romantic partner // 51%
Harvard University endowment // Endowments of MIT + UPenn
Corporate tax rate in the U.S. // Average corporate tax rate in Europe

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less than, equal, greater, greater

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wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:18 am

This is a good one

So here’s how this puzzle works: you get a telephone number, and you’ll have to decode which famous person it belongs to.

Example....532-2974 (politician) = Jeb Bush. The letters match the numbers on the keypad.

846-2665 (business executive)
239-6623 (musical artist)
844-379-6637 (athlete)
366-292-8766 (actress and activist)
526-328-7836 (author)

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 8:28 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:18 am This is a good one

So here’s how this puzzle works: you get a telephone number, and you’ll have to decode which famous person it belongs to.

Example....532-2974 (politician) = Jeb Bush. The letters match the numbers on the keypad.

846-2665 (business executive)
239-6623 (musical artist)
844-379-6637 (athlete)
366-292-8766 (actress and activist)
526-328-7836 (author)

Tim Cook and Beyonce are the first two. It seems easier to just start figuring out people who have seven or ten letters in their name who fall into the category, then go backwards. Of course, seeing the "9" in Beyonce had me figuring out the conventional way since w, x, y, and z are not frequent use letters.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:16 am

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 8:28 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:18 am This is a good one

So here’s how this puzzle works: you get a telephone number, and you’ll have to decode which famous person it belongs to.

Example....532-2974 (politician) = Jeb Bush. The letters match the numbers on the keypad.

846-2665 (business executive)
239-6623 (musical artist)
844-379-6637 (athlete)
366-292-8766 (actress and activist)
526-328-7836 (author)
Tim Cook and Beyonce are the first two. It seems easier to just start figuring out people who have seven or ten letters in their name who fall into the category, then go backwards. Of course, seeing the "9" in Beyonce had me figuring out the conventional way since w, x, y, and z are not frequent use letters.

Correct on Tim Cook and Beyonce

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:23 am

Tiger woods.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:07 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:23 amTiger woods.

yes

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 8:26 pm

1. Number of Amazon employees globally // Population of Boston, MA
2. Age of Alibaba // Age of Zion Williamson
3. Amount U.S. consumers spent on Airbnb in 2018 // Amount U.S. consumers spent on Hilton in 2018
4. The number of students Yale admitted last year from an applicant pool of 36,843 // 3,000

[+] spoiler: 1) Less than. Amazon employees globally = 613,300. Boston population = 685,000.
2) Greater than. Alibaba was founded in 1999 and Zion was born in 2000.
3) Greater than. U.S. consumers spent more on Airbnb than on Hilton in 2018.
4) Less than. Yale admitted 2,178 students for an admission rate of 5.91%

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 8:27 pm

Also answers to 4 & 5 were Emma Watson and Jane Austen

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:05 am

Find the smallest number such that if is rightmost digit is moved to its left end, the new number you create is 50% larger than the original number.

[+] spoiler: 285714

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:22 am

Find as many words as you can using the above letters, but you must always use the central letter (T). You can only use each letter once, unless it appears twice (E). You can use E twice.

C, D, P E, J, R, O, E, T

Also the "central letter T" was a reference to a picture. T does not have to be the middle letter in the word.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:14 am

Hit me with those letters!

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:43 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:14 am Hit me with those letters!

Edited..sorry left them out

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:51 am

Projected
Do

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:12 am

Gave myself 5 minutes, otherwise I'd be staring at the letters all day.

I got 26.

[+] spoiler: Dot, cot, pot, jot, rot, to, tee, toe, pet, jet, jete, dote, doter, rote, repot, deter, peter, teed, port, pert, peet, trod, trope, tore, copt, copter,

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:39 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:12 am Gave myself 5 minutes, otherwise I'd be staring at the letters all day.

I got 26.

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Dot, cot, pot, jot, rot, to, tee, toe, pet, jet, jete, dote, doter, rote, repot, deter, peter, teed, port, pert, peet, trod, trope, tore, copt, copter,

[+] spoiler: Target A - 19 [6 words]

poet, port, project, reject, top, tree.

Target B - 54 [18 words]

deter, dot, jet, opt, opted, pet, ported, pot, projected, rot, toe, tore.

Target C - 102 [36 words]

copter, cot, crept, deject, deport, depot, dote, eject, erect, jot, pert, peter, rote, tee, teed, toed, treed, trod.

Target D - 216 [78 words]

cert, cete, cote, coted, deet, dort, doter, dropt, ejector, ert, jete, opter, ort, petre, petro, porte, pote, poted, projet, recept, recto, redtop, repot, ret, rete, roted, ted, teer, terce, teredo, toc, tod, tope, toped, topee, toper, tor, torc, trode, trop, trope, troped.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:24 pm

What is the longest word in the English language that only uses one vowel one time?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:26 pm

Stretch?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:45 pm

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:54 pm

Strength

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:04 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:54 pmStrength

close...Strengths

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:00 am

One of the world's most densely populated countries and one of the least dense countries both start with the same three letters. What are the countries?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:04 am

Turkey Turkmenistan?

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:08 am

Monaco/Mongolia

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:23 am

South Korea/South Sudan

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:54 am

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:08 am Monaco/Mongolia

Yes

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:34 pm

India/Indonesia?

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:03 pm

bfj wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:34 pmIndia/Indonesia?

Nope/ noptachance(sic)

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue May 07, 2019 10:14 am

Can you find a word that has all five vowels in alphabetical order from a --> u? (Does not need to be consecutive, of course)

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue May 07, 2019 10:27 am

facetious

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue May 07, 2019 10:31 am

AerIonautic.

(This is too hard.)