In the game of Letter Cubes, a different letter of the alphabet is on each face of each of the 4 cubes so that 24 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, including J, occur. Words are formed by rearranging and turning the cubes so that the top letters spell a common 4-letter word. The 14 words below have been made using the cubes.

CAVE
CLEF
DUPE
FARE
FLUB
GREW
HAZY
KITH
LOIN
POEM
RASP
SMUG
TIRE
VARY

Can you recover the 6 letters on each?

(puzzle originally from www.allstarpuzzles.com)

(In reply to sOLUTION by Hank)

You have h appearing twice; in cube 1 and in cube 4.

You have j not appearing at all, when the problem clearly specifies that j needs to be there, even though it does not form part of any of the clue words.

Posted by Sanjay on 2003-06-17 10:41:05