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Twelve words:
a nearsighted ant sergeant negates an agent, denigrates estranged straightened gnat agents
a
an
ant
gnat
agent
agents
negates
sergeant
estranged
denigrates
nearsighted
straightened
An officer in an army of earthbound insects, suffering from poor eyesight, orders an informer to be dispensed with, and is harshly critical of an ex-couple of ...
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16 Words (Internationalize)
Sentence
Explanation:
I can assert with reasonable certainty that no longer chain exists (according to the dictionary that I am using to generate this). There are a huge number of variations of the chain starting with
but this one was possible to squeeze a grammatical sentence out of.
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I like this a lot!
The title is a clue since
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Final Report
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
The gang members are ...
The pet word ...
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He is from
My prefix is anagram
My infix is anagram
My suffix is anagram
My prefix prefix is a horned animal
My prefix infix is an enlightened animal
My prefix suffix is a worn down animal
My suffix prefix is the worn down animal
My suffix infix is a slimy animal
My suffix suffix is the horned animal
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Are you:
An anagram that sharpens your imagination
An anagram that don't ask for your permission
An anagram that is not very original
An anagram that is not very important
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Can you think of a 6+ letter word that is an anagram of itself?
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The brand is:
Because:
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For a word to be self-anagrammable, ...
"Obviously the number of letters will always have to be even". That's not true:
As usual with such questions top hits are found by scouring huge word lists. A 17-letter word I found is:
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Final answer
Continuing where Rand left off, we
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It is:
Me, I am what you do when you don't want to do something,
My anagram is noble,
My other anagram is necessary for life,
My homophone is not getting any bigger,
My homophone's anagram is proved false.
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Given the title, I'm gonna go with ...
Which anagrams to 5 words that (a) start with the different letters of the base word, and (b) are synonyms of words of your sentence.
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Nikola Tesla, decrepit in old age, aggrieved by ailments, but still doing his experiments causing filaments (as in a light bulb) to explode.
A lamest Tesla sat at last - laments ailments, fulminates filaments.
(10 words)
In a post-apocalyptic world, farm animal meat is a thing of the past. To retain its customers, driven away by ever-increasing ...
29
Look for patterns, such as ing, tion, re/er, de/ed, qu, est, un, th, etc.
Remove the letters in these patterns first, then see if you can use the prefix/suffix with the remaining letters. (If you can't, then try another prefix/suffix. Some words just don't have prefixes/suffixes, though.)
Look at only the consonants, since th hmn brn cn stll ndrstnd mst ...
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Finished crossword
No googling is required because
The final message is
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Thirteen words:
13 Universalists
12 Universalist
11 Antiviruses
10 Intrusives
9 Intrusive
8 Inviters
7 Inverts
6 Strive
5 Rivet
4 Tire
3 Tie
2 It
1 I
Slightly contrived sentence:
Universalists rivet intrusive antiviruses, inviters tie intrusives (inverts it), I tire; Strive, Universalist!
Translation:
Those seeking a universal approach to ...
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They are all
I’m guessing this means that the
The
Then
And the title:
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Fourteen words:
"Presentational toenail replantations entail senatorial alterations rationale", leant a relation, late, at alternations tea.
a
at
tea
late
leant
entail
toenail
relation
rationale
senatorial
alterations
alternations
replantations
presentational
A family member, at an afternoon event held to celebrate the swapovers (of a kind which ...
27
The original word was:
The individual translations are:
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Here are three pretty decent ones to take you up to five:
These are pushing it a bit:
And I think these are clearly impermissible:
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Didn't know this stack community existed, found it by chance when this thread came up in my feed, and I do love puzzles so I'm joining. Taking a shot at this one with this entry, one of my words is considered colloquial or obsolete though.
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Setal teals steal least-stale slate-stela Tesla tales.
9 words
"Bristly birds steal the least stale tales of Tesla that are written on a slate stela (stone slab)."
answered Aug 24 '15 at 18:12
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The suit should have a lot of folds
Contain a lot of metal discs
Please color it by using paint
Then decorate with flower leaves
And please adhere a crown with tape
Five items was I missing though
Replaced them with what I could find
King took the suit, and, going out,
Looked like the (?) man in town.
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There is a Wikipedia article concerning the longest word in English. The longest word there is ...
Unfortunately all words from the table in the Wikipedia article with lengths between 182 and 27 don't work for this puzzle, because each of them contains at least one non-repeated letter.
If you think this is too crazy and if place names are allowed there is ...
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The dots in between the squares...
These can be interpreted
There are also some other ways to extract similar arrangements of letters:
The data collected:
The next step needed heavy hinting for me to find it:
Unused information [hinted to be a clue to the step I did first]:
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12 in ascending order of length
I, in tin unit, unite minute pinetum, tumpline, penultima; manipulate planetarium planetariums
I, in a metal shed, combine a very small coniferous arboretum, a load-carrying strap and a logic game, and handle models of the solar system in a building made for such a model
I
in
tin
unit
unite
minute
pinetum
tumpline
...
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Are you and your archenemy:
Did you miss me? I hope you are alright.
And your closest person. What is he doing? Does he get any patients now?:
I also hope your elder girlfriend Nerie is fine.:
I am waiting for you at your home. And yeah, I have the key to the last part of your name.:
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The solution is
The crossword was first solved by @NeilW, and @Sconibulus solved the alphametic and the maze (go upvote them!).
For the Sudoku:
For the Anagram:
For the Logic puzzle:
Back to the Sudoku:
Finally to the Maze:
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This is a surprisingly hard task. I managed to find just three so far.
1.
2.
3.
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The
Needs to be upgraded!
Quick explanation of how to solve (lots of pictures for step by step solutions):
Solution to the nonogram:
Steps:
1:
2:
3:
The riddle:
Now
Solving the new sudoku:
Steps:
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
And from there we can fill in the rest as a normal sudoku:
Reading off the yellow letters gives
The initials are also ...
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