Ten nine-letter words have been separated into units of three letters. The units have been randomly put in the below list. Can you determine the original 10 words?

   dst rbr ard man tor rbo
   ove and con erf ent dli
   new fly spa dif hai ght
   per all fis ban ush hea
   dra gon fer wat duc her 

(In reply to re: Only one solution possible by Balance)

Balance: "Using a program somewhat defeats the purpose in it, doesn't it?"

On balance, this is what Socrates said about the invention of writing: it was unfortunate, he said, that writing was invented, since it allowed men to cheat by writing things down on paper rather than doing everything in their heads and thereby exercising their powers of concentration and their memories. But if the puzzle had stated: "No computers, logarithm tables, calculators, or even pencil and paper; you must do this entirely in your head, in a Zen meditative trance, eyes closed and breathing from the lower abdomen", would you have tried to solve it that way ?

 

 

Edited on August 13, 2004, 3:03 pm

Posted by Penny on 2004-08-13 14:59:48