In the game of Letter Cubes, a different letter of the alphabet is on each face of each of the 4 cubes so that 24 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, including J, occur. Words are formed by rearranging and turning the cubes so that the top letters spell a common 4-letter word. The 14 words below have been made using the cubes.

CAVE
CLEF
DUPE
FARE
FLUB
GREW
HAZY
KITH
LOIN
POEM
RASP
SMUG
TIRE
VARY

Can you recover the 6 letters on each?

(puzzle originally from www.allstarpuzzles.com)

c,u,r,h,k,o
a,l,d,w,t,m
v,f,p,g,z,i
e,b,y,h,n,s

My logic: I made four columns. Wrote the word using one letter from each column:

C A V E
L F (because C, E are already used)
U D P
R
B
W G
H Z Y
K T I H
O N
M
S

it is a fix as you go method.

Posted by Hank on 2003-06-17 10:15:27