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There Can Be Only Twelve (Posted on 2021-06-10) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The following set has exactly 12 members, each a 3-letter word, arranged alphabetically.

There are many other words which could take the place of "Box", for example, provided such a word possesses the same necessary properties as "Box". This is true for each of the 12 members.

{Box, Fox, Get, Hat, Jet, Mat, Not, Rot, Tot, Urn, ___, ___}

There are many solutions which can correctly fill in the last two places. But, only one of the following correctly does so.

A. Veg, You

B. Wan, Yet

C. Wax, Zoo

D. Xis, Yaw

E. Yet, Zen

Note: one property possessed by each word is that it is a valid 3-letter English word, but this type of property is not the key to the solution.

Please provide your own two-word solution.

  Submitted by Larry    
Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
The first letter of each word is typed with an index finger by touch typists on standard keyboard layout.

A. is the correct choice out of the 5 given.

A valid solution is any 3-letter word starting with "V" followed by one starting with "Y".

The "Note" included a hint with the italicized words "type" and "key" suggesting typing on a keyboard.

Capitalizing the first letter of each word was a (weak) clue as well.

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  Subject Author Date
Hints/TipsAnother hintLarry2023-05-28 09:19:33
Hints/Tipsre: A failed theoryLarry2021-06-13 09:23:42
A failed theoryCharlie2021-06-11 07:40:11
Hints/TipsHintLarry2021-06-11 00:17:39
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