Questions tagged [word-property]
For puzzles which ask the solver to determine a hidden property of certain words (or phrases), given a set of words with that property and usually also a set of words without it for comparison. Puzzles with this tag often have titles of the form "What is a [...] Word™?"
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Sergeant Sequence calls for back-up
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Sequence, get in here! Your man's definitely up to something!"
The mood at Headquarters was tense. Sergeant Sequence ...
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This puzzle's value is 334
The 28th of october is valued by 40. This sentence is valued by 17. This paragraph is valued by 143.
This puzzle is valued by 334.
Can you give the value of Puzzling StackExchange?
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What is an Outs Word™?
This puzzle is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Outs word.
Here ...
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2answers
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What is a North-America™ word?
This puzzle is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a North-America™ ...
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1answer
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What is a Multietude™ word?
This puzzle is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Multietude™ word....
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1answer
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Having fun with nyms
In the following sentence, can you replace every dash (-) with a character so that the sentence makes logical sense?
An ----nym is an ----nym of an ---nym.
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1answer
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What is a Lifelong Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Lifelong Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is a First Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a First Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What kind of car do I have?
What kind of car do I have?
The clue words:
stories, robbery, rock, minimum, old, ducks
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1answer
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Auferonyms - Words Inside Words
I have hidden something from my nemesis Aufero inside other words. The rules are that I can only add one or more letters to a word inside that word (not at the beginning or end), I can only add a ...
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1answer
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East and West words
Here are some East words:
wet, chip, awed, sect, stop, dry, ail, to, gyp, do, stop, an
Here are some West words:
few, loin, lira, jew, ours, bra, points, line, kid, tea, pots, be
What are the East ...
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Welcome to the Acme Corporation - please find your floor number
Welcome to the Acme Corporation.
The Acme Corporation is the greatest company in the world, and it should be your utmost honor and privilege to be employed as an associate of the Corporation.
The ...
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After the funeral
The mood was sombre in the lawyer’s office. Eight members of the Picodie family gathered together to hear the reading of their recently deceased father’s will. Around the table sat Eli, Ron, Agnes, ...
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Four groups, sixteen words
These 16 words can be separated into 4 categories... What are they? All of them have something in common... What is it?
Bean, Iron, Bird, Notorious, Cannonball, Ripper, Prince, Zodiac, Clown, Slim, ...
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1answer
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What is a Parallel Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Parallel Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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Knit one purl one
Actually the title is completely misleading because this has nothing to do with knitting. Here is the actual puzzle.
Pull one.
Cost two.
Get off one.
Off the top of one.
Keep one up.
Bite one.
Drag ...
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My Exciting Travel Adventure
I have been working hard all year. You know what that means, it's time for a summer vacation! This puzzle will tell you where I am heading!There are three puzzle sets, with 9 clues each. Each set has ...
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1answer
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increase your knowledge
BEE, DON, EXAMINER, GLOBE, HORNET, RETRIEVER, ROO, STAR, SUN, TERRIER
These ten words can be paired up into five pairs according to a certain rule. How?
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What is a Foldable Word™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Foldable Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
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What is a Patternful Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Patternful Word™.
Use ...
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1answer
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My botched ordering task
I've messed up once again. I was supposed to put this group of words in order... Even though I'm sure I've alphabetized them correctly, I've been told that my solution is completely wrong! I can't ...
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Practical Chemo Opus
Herb Clark likes few substances, such as:
CARBON, NEON, SILICON, PHOSPHORUS, IRON, COPPER, ARSENIC, KRYPTON, ...
Find others per inclination.
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a difference of 29°
The eight words pictured here, along with their positions, can be divided into two groups of four words apiece. Identify the two groups and why each word-position combination belongs to its group.
I ...
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What do all of these pictures have in common?
What do all of these things have in common?
The answer is a simple word or phrase.
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1answer
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What gets past the bluegrass bulge?
Sort of in the style of that old classic, ‘What goes through the green glass door?’
What gets past the bluegrass bulge?
Blue does, but green doesn’t.
Grass does, but glaze doesn’t.
Bulge does, but ...
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1answer
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What is a 21 + 3113 Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word adheres to a certain rule I call it a 21 + 3113 Word™.
Text-...
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2answers
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What is a Scooby Word?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.Template taken from Rubio.
If a word conforms to a specific pattern, I call it a ...
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0answers
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What is a BS Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a BS Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is an IHC. word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an IHC. Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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Follow the path of relation through the grid #6
There is a relation between rectilinear-adjacent squares such that there is a unique rectilinear path from the top-left corner of the grid down to the bottom-right corner of the grid. Each square can ...
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1answer
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What should these be called?
On this site, rot13 is often used to encrypt comments so spoilers can be spoken about. Rot13 is a cipher, in which each letter is shifted 13 letters forward (or backward) in the alphabet.
There are ...
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What is a Computer Phrase™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a phrase conforms to a special rule, I call it a Computer Phrase™. Use the ...
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1answer
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What is a Rotting Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Rotting Word™.
Use the ...
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2answers
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What is a Transition Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Transition Word™.
Use ...
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1answer
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Can you find the missing words?
Given that:
$
\begin{gather}
\ \text{ art}\hspace{1em}\Leftrightarrow\hspace{1em}\text{phi}
\end{gather}
$
Can you figure out the words that are missing?
$
\begin{gather}
\text{imps}\hspace{1em}...
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What is a Vowelreuben™ Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Vowelreuben™ Word™.
Use ...
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3answers
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What is a Limited Word™
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Limited Word™.
Use the ...
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Can you name the Product Code™?
Given the product codes of 10 fruits and vegetables in the chart below, can you figure out the product code of Broccoli?
$
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\def\S#1#2{\Space{#1}{...
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Opposing Teams: Who did Dillon pick?
Rudy Estabrook and Dillon O'Donnelly are chosen captains of opposing teams in a language trivia contest. They were asked to choose team members from a pool of their smart friends.
Here is how it went
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Find The Common Pattern In These Words
You are a super spy, typing on your QWERTY keyboard, when suddenly you received an urgent call from your boss, Caesar. He had urgently called you, defying all protocols, as he wanted to inform you ...
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“I just can’t solve this easy puzzle!”
“Yuh can’t solve this easy puzzle?”
“Bah, it’s already solved!&...
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A unique word: Says Grandpa
"Very interesting word", said Grandpa. "Could be the only word with this property"
"What property?", I asked
"At least 9 letters long and first four letters are same as the last
four letters!
...
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What is a Plot Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Plot Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is a Baguette Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Baguette Word™.
Use the ...
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What is an ?????? Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an ?????? Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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One-thousand-four-hundred-seventy-four numbers get valued
Rows A through P, below, categorize the spellings of
one-thousand-four-hundred-seventy-four numbers that
have a straightforward numerical property to be deduced.
Spelled numbers of each row share a ...
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What is a Substantial Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Substantial Word™.
Use ...
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1answer
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What is a BFF Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a BFF Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is an HTM Word™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an HTM Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
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