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?

   ent sen oom ush ile cro
   cla rbr ise lis ssr lig
   hai mar htn age ess new
   sag clo gar ion ing oth
   enc ine col our erw cod 

LIGHTNING – looked for it because it has been common in these problems, amazingly different and conductor aren’t here.
HAIRBRUSH – rbr reminded me of when I saw it in another one.
NEWSAGENT – new reminded me of newspaper and newsagent I had seen before

CLASSROOM – the ssr intrigued me, and I thought I was going to find CROSSRoad, but found classroom instead.
OTHERWISE – I wasn’t sure where oth might go, but if it wasn’t last, other was the first word that came to mind.
CLOSENESS – ess looked like an ending, and ness was the first that came to mind
COLLISION – ion looked like an ending, and only tion or sion came to mind.

Then Margarine, Crocodile, and Encourage followed, but they were tough... I wouldn't have gotten them if I hadn't already reduced the problem so much.

Posted by nikki on 2004-10-14 18:17:29