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Words in Common 11 (Posted on 2004-03-19) Difficulty: 2 of 5
What do the following words have in common?
HAGGARD
SWELTERING
HOGBACK
DOWNDRAFT
BIBLIOPHILE
DEVILMENT
FLEET
IRTRONS

See The Solution Submitted by Victor Zapana    
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re: solution | Comment 6 of 17 |
(In reply to solution by hamish thompson)

hamish thompson wrote: "Solution: they have all got smaller words in them".

Almost all words have smaller words in them. Consider the preceding sentence: "Almost all words have smaller words in them". Every word in that sentence has a smaller word in it.

"Almost" has "most" in it. "All" has "a" in it. "Words" has "or" in it. "Have" has "a" in it. "Smaller" has "all" in it. "In" has "I" in it. "Them" has "hem" in it.

So that's like saying "Solution: they all consist of letters."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Edited on March 21, 2004, 7:03 am
  Posted by Penny on 2004-03-21 01:28:33

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