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)

Process of elimination makes life easy for us here. You start with the first word, cave.
C must be cube 1, (or cube alphalpha or whatever you want to name it )
A for cube 2, V for three, and E for four.

After determining that, you simply isolate the possibilities from here on.

after following the lengthy, if easy, process one comes up with:

For cube 1:
C U R H O (and don't forget the never used J)

For cube 2:
A L W D T M

For cube 3:
V F G P Z I

For cube 4:
E B Y N K S

Posted by PRIVATE on 2003-07-16 23:34:43