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Stellar Words (Posted on 2007-01-18)

The following words have something in common:

DERIDE, MADE, MAID, MAIL, MISDID, RIDE, WADE, WAIL

The following words have a different something in common:

ACCEPT, ACES, BABOON, PUSHUP, SICK, WOOF, WOOFER

The following list incorporates both ideas, but is also in a particular order:

HE, AM, ACID, ACES, AMAZES, OUTRIDE, ACTIVATE

Of the following, what word best fits as the next in sequence?:

CORRECT, CORRECTION, CORRECTLY, CORRECTNESS, CORRECTOR, CORRECTORS, or CORRECTS

Submitted by Charlie

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

The first group of words can be formed by concatenating 2-letter postal state abbreviations. The second group can be formed by concatenating the symbols for chemical elements.
The last group uses both states and elements. They can be chosen in only one way, and if a digit 1 represents an element and a digit 0 represents a state, then the sequence is:
1, 1, 10, 11, 101, 1000, 1101
This is the Fibonacci series in binary. The next would be 10101, or three elements and two states, alternating. That's CORRECTS: Carbon, Oregon, Rhenium, Connecticut and Sulfur.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-02-12 00:21:11
re: Solution	Charlie	2007-03-27 14:13:39
Solution	Dej Mar	2007-03-26 03:12:43
Answer	Joe	2007-03-25 08:39:59
re(2): Seconds on that	Charlie	2007-01-26 12:09:45
re(2): Seconds on that	Charlie	2007-01-23 16:31:52
re: Seconds on that	Jyqm	2007-01-23 12:18:59
Seconds on that	Gamer	2007-01-23 06:26:42
A start	Jyqm	2007-01-22 16:03:31
Hint 2	Charlie	2007-01-22 11:45:08
Hint	Charlie	2007-01-20 12:19:53

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