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Trigrams (Posted on 2005-10-07)

The following groups of three letters, or "trigrams", can all be found
in one or more English words, obscure scientific terms not included.
Can you find a word for each of the ten?

(N.B. The trigrams may be at the beginning, middle, or end of a
word, but the letters must not be mixed or interspersed with others.
For example: KHS could be found in sheiKHS but not in bucKSHot or
KHakiS.)

         BWA
         CKK
         DGM
       GZW
         KTH
         LCR
         OKK
         TSC
         XII
         ZWI

Submitted by Captain Paradox

Rating: 4.6667 (3 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

These may not be the only solutions, but they are the shortest I could find:

dumBWAiter (pcbouhid discovered suBWAy)
kniCKKnack
juDGMent
zuGZWang (a chess scenario forcing the other player to make an undesirable move)
breaKTHrough
fuLCRum
boOKKeeper
kiTSCh: (vulgar, ostentatious)
taXIIng
ZWIeback: (a sweetened baked cookie)

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-03-07 23:48:23
More than one word each (but for XII)	Dej Mar	2014-10-18 13:56:53
BWAHAHAHAHA	jduval	2013-09-24 01:25:45
didn't say anything about proper nouns did you?	carlos	2005-12-03 23:43:18
Solutions off the top of my head...	Michael	2005-10-12 18:52:16
re(3): Wow	pcbouhid	2005-10-08 22:58:44
re(2): Wow	Captain Paradox	2005-10-08 19:58:23
ZWI	Paul West	2005-10-08 19:44:56
re(2): CKK CORRECTED	pcbouhid	2005-10-08 12:53:37
re(2): DGM corrected -- not quite!	brianjn	2005-10-08 08:47:23
re: Wow	pcbouhid	2005-10-08 03:57:34
Wow	Captain Paradox	2005-10-08 03:05:53
re: Computer program search	Penny	2005-10-08 00:43:45
Computer program search	Penny	2005-10-08 00:03:20
ZWI spoiler	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:50:36
re: XII ?=====> XII !	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:46:43
re: CKK CORRECTED	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:32:16
re: DGM corrected	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:27:49
re: LCR	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:23:32
Some of them... (no dictionary/research)	sassy	2005-10-07 22:22:58
re: TSC	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:17:44
re: BWA	Ady TZIDON	2005-10-07 22:15:31
re(2): BWA	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 19:00:08
re: BWA	Jer	2005-10-07 18:56:21
Only to Captain Paradox	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 18:01:51
GZW	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:59:46
No merit for me!!! - don´t read my comments - try it	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:59:08
BWA	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:57:10
TSC	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:56:08
OKK	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:55:20
LCR	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:54:04
KTH	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:53:24
DGM	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:51:46
CKK	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:50:50
XII ?	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:48:08
BWA ?	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:46:40
ZWI	pcbouhid	2005-10-07 17:39:39

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