Place the letters back into their respective row or column in order to create a word search grid satisfying the problem name. (? in the title=a red herring?)
| | | | | | | | n | * | p | t |
| | | | | | | | p | j | t | |
| | | | | | | | p | v | s | u |
| | | | | | | | a | t | s | |
| | | | | | | | r | r | n | u |
| | | | | | | | t | u | s | |
| | | | | | | | u | c | y | m |
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o | u | u | l | h | e | r | | | | | |
e | u | n | i | r | t | * | | | | | |
s | a | r | e | r | n | a | | | | | |
| r | | a | | e | | | | | | |
BONUS: Once you have solved this one, can you make an even smaller grid?
What about with the eight?
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re(2): SOLUTION by jduval)
There are currently in our Solar System only eight known planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- and three known dwarf planets (a category of planetoid created due in part because of the discovery of Eris in 2005) -- Pluto (demoted from planet), Eris (a Kuiper belt body as is Pluto, but more massive than Pluto by about 27%), and Ceres (promoted from asteroid though it may still be called an asteroid). The number, then, of known planets and dwarf planets are eleven -- hence the ? was retained with the reference "All Ten?" with the unfortunate exclusion of the third known dwarf planet, Ceres.
The number, eleven, may change as the asteroids -- Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea -- may be recategorized as dwarf planets if their shape is determined by hydrostatic equilibrium; or the Trans-Neptunian Objects -- 2005 FY9, Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Varuna, Ixion or other discoveries are found to fit the definition of dwarf planet; and possibly Charon, Pluto's "moon", if Pluto and Charon are redefined as binary dwarf planets.
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Posted by Dej Mar
on 2007-09-25 20:06:39 |
re(3): SOLUTION
