What do the following three-letter words have in common?

     fat     oak     lax     sat

     den     sea     pit     lit

This "puzzle" was solved the same way "A group of letters" and "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" were solved --by means of Internet searches that required very little, if any, ingenuity or brain power. Very disappointing. (See "Mathematician vrs. Detective" and "Difficult sequence" for examples of excellent brainteasers that cannot be solved "on the cheap").

Let it be hereby resolved, that before we post another "challenging problem", we will first make sure it can't be solved by either (a) a no-brainer Internet search, or (b) a computer program or spreadsheet. Otherwise this is just as pointless as "winning" a chess match by using a computer program, or "winning" a weightlifting competition by using a forklift. Thank you.





Edited on November 5, 2003, 10:00 pm

Posted by Dan on 2003-11-05 21:38:35