Five bits for the bipolar (Posted on 2007-05-12)

	Submitted by Dej Mar
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The characteristic that the five words share is that, for each word, each letter's binary value (A = 1 = 00001, B = 2 = 00010, ..., Z = 26 = 11010) can be placed in a square, as such:   0   0   0   0   1 =  1 = A   0   1   1   0   0 = 12 = L   0   1   1   1   1 = 15 = O   0   0   1   1   0 =  6 = F   1   0   1   0   0 = 20 = T = 1  12  15   6  20 = A   L   O   F   T The other words I found that share this property are much less common than those in the given list. They are BLOTE - [obsolete] to cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them, CHERT - variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz, PHEBE - (variant of phoebe) the pewee, or pewit, and WHURT - (variant of whort) the whortleberry, or bilberry.

	Subject	Author	Date
	Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-09-08 02:45:59
	hint and bonus spoiler	Mindrod	2007-05-13 18:42:24
	re: Not Common	Dej Mar	2007-05-13 16:23:32
	Not Common	brianjn	2007-05-13 09:16:18