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Three Consecutive Letters in Order (Posted on 2023-03-15) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Complete the words given below using three consecutive letters in alphabetic order.

As an example, for: (*)(*)A(*)US, add A, B, and C and it becomes ABACUS.

  1. CO(*)(*)E(*)
  2. (*)(*)(*)ORM
  3. SO(*)E(*)(*)
  4. (*)A(*)(*)RATE
  5. (*)U(*)G(*)L
  6. S(*)O(*)(*)Y
  7. (*)OBU(*)(*)
  8. (*)O(*)OT(*)NE
  9. (*)US(*)E(*)

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta    
Rating: 4.0000 (1 votes)

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Solution Computer Solution | Comment 1 of 2
CORSET
DEFORM
SOLEMN
SATURATE
CUDGEL
SNOOPY
ROBUST
MONOTONE
RUSSET

----  using a word list of 46,893 words  ----

lets = [chr(65+i) for i in range(26)] + ['A','B','C']

data = ['CO{}{}E{}',
'{}{}{}ORM',
'SO{}E{}{}',
'{}A{}{}RATE',
'{}U{}G{}L',
'S{}O{}{}Y',
'{}OBU{}{}',
'{}O{}OT{}NE',
'{}US{}E{}']

scrambles = []
for d in data:
    for i in range(26):
        scrambles.append(d.format(lets[i],lets[i+1],lets[i+2]).lower())

for s in scrambles:
    if s in words:
        print(s.upper())

  Posted by Larry on 2023-03-15 12:46:05
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