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Full
Wood
Town
Town -
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Blue
Love
Love -
Hard
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Hard
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Wood
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You are correct on the first 2!
I am confused, are they saying there is only one four letter prefix to form a compound word? Is there ant connection betwwen the four Word 1s?
what about, many which work with the first hint.
Summary
almshouse
backhouse
bakehouse
bathhouse
beerhouse
birdhouse
boathouse
brewhouse
bunkhouse
chophouse
clubhouse
coalhouse
cookhouse
deckhouse
dollhouse
dosshouse
farmhouse
firehouse
flophouse
freehouse
gaolhouse
gatehouse
jailhouse
longhouse
malthouse
oasthouse
penthouse
pesthouse
playhouse
poorhouse
roadhouse
safehouse
shithouse
shophouse
showhouse
toolhouse
townhouse
treehouse
warehouse
washhouse
workhouse
Each set of words contains four words where the same common four letter word can be added to the beginning of each word to create a common compound word or phrase. The purpose is to guess what that word might be using as few of the words in the set as possible. So for set 1, try and guess the compound word for that set using the word house. Then expand set 1 to get the second word in that set and see if your four letter word also works there. If not, guess another four letter word that applies to both words so far. Each set uses a different four letter word.
Word 4 is: main
I couldn’t get word 3 even after all four clues but got the other 3
An example for this type of puzzle might be Jam, Frame, Knob, Handle - the word that could go before each of those would be Door.
You got it!
What got me is when hints are hidden I assume it can be solved without them, but for this it is impossible
To be honest there are lots of these puzzles that have starting hints. I haven’t been posting those for the most part, but if you guys want me to I can include them in spoilers.
Now that we’re not going through 7 of these a day I’m much more willing to type the little extra.
I couldn’t get the answer with all 4 clues on that group, however in retrospect I see that it was a fair puzzle.
I use that word that you don’t use. It’s ordinary enough to me. It means the significant street in an area that has the most businesses & reasons to be on that street. Often in small towns, it is the only place to be. If you are ever traveling by car and need to stop in a small town for food or gas or a drink, you better search out the main drag.
It’s certainly 1000 times more common to me than Eider. Sorry, I’m not gonna get off that one. It’s too amusing to me.
Huh, never heard/used it. The more you know!
I prefer no hints, unless no one responds
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I get a quarterly magazine that has 5 puzzlers in each issue. Would there be interest in adding these in from time to time? These typically tend to be quite a bit harder than the ones from the calendar.
Yes!!!
Eider is a word that is not uncommon in crossword puzzles (because it has a bunch of fairly common letters in it). I’ve also been told by my mom that Eider down also was fairly commonly known back in her day as being the filling for really good quilts.
OK. One from their Spring issue
Solve the following cryptic addition
in a base less than 10:
ALL + ALONE + AT = NIGHT
The usual rules apply: each letter
represents a different digit and
there are no leading zeros.
—Journal of Recreational
Mathematics
btw, the magazine I get is The Bent, from Tau Beta Pi.
Oh. I threw away the Summer issue and it’s not online yet, so I don’t have the answer right now.
Fun times posting the problem with no solution