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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?
My answer uses words with distinct letters in each (a condition of the previous puzzle) so as not to repeat the findings of another answer, which allows duplicated letters. Obviously there must be ...
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?
From @computer_goblin's list of 46659 nine-letter words, the maximum number of letters covered by three words is
If you instead consider only the subset of 43098 words that do not contain a capital ...
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Can you employ all 26 letters using three 11-letter, three 10-letter, or three 9-letter words?
I compiled a txt file containing all 9 letter words recognized by Merriam Webster. However, proper nouns are included as well (Designated by a capital letter). I also quickly wrote a code but due to ...
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Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters
Looking for three 8-letter word groups with 24 distinct letters.
I was unable to find a solution in a dictionary, but did find several by using other word lists. Most are 'suspect' but this one uses ...
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Three 8-letter words with at least 23 different letters
Searching a list of over 8000 eight-letter words with no repeated letters yields the following six triples, each with 23 distinct letters:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
Looking at the options B and C can be easily ruled out. Either A or D is correct.
S I L V E R -----> L E S I R V (123456 ---> 351264)
Similarly
NATURE -----> TRNAEU
So done! Its option (D).
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
Breaking up the encryption into steps I get:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
There is a typo in the letters 'LESIRU', it should be 'LESIRV'
The trick is to give each letter a number, and then cross reference it to the original:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
SILVER -> LESIRU
GOLDEN -> LEGOND
Now do the same for NATURE and use the second sequence of numbers to rearrange the resulting word:
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
It looks like there's a typo in the question:
If so, here is how I solved it:
Then the answer is:
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