Complete the eight words using each of the 26 letters of the alphabet exactly once.

    
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   | ? | A | ? | E | R | I | ? | ? |        
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | U | ? | ? | ? | E |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | I | ? | ? | E |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   | ? | ? | L | ? | E | R |         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   +---+---+---+---+
   | ? | I | ? | ? |       
   +---+---+---+---+        
   +---+---+---+---+
   | ? | ? | A | P |          
   +---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+  
   | B | R | ? | ? | ? | N |          
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+         
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 
   | ? | O | L | ? | ? | A | ? |      
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

*** Proper nouns, acronyms or abbreviations are not allowed.

Looking through Charlie's listing I am surprised not see words like JINX, QUINCE, QUICHE, PIQUE.

Using a "PnP" method (actually locking the given letters of the KS array into a spreadsheet, and cycling through the alphabet) I began to place certain letters like J, Q, X, Z, V and W.

Q would only seem to fit in the second or third word, or maybe coupled with U [QU] to be in the last word, but I can't think of any suitable word there.

I can't recall all efforts but my current "failed" list looks like:
VALERIUM
QUICHE
-I--E
FOLDER
JINX
WRAP
BRAZEN
-OL--A-

At one point I'd considered BROKEN instead of BRAZEN and MATERIAL for the first word.

I'm beginning to like PIQUE as the third word.

Posted by brianjn on 2013-06-04 22:46:43