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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Word Puzzle
What do each of the following words have in common?
chef
facade
hotshots
microscope
racketeering
indivisibility
unpremeditatedly
Answer: if you let a = 1, b = 2, and so forth, then each of these words has the property that the first half of the word sums to the same number as the second half.
They look like "additive squares"... But I only checked the first 4 ones.
ReplyDeleteNumerology is the answer :)
If every letter corresponds to its place in the alphabet, the sum of the first half of each word equals the sum of the second.
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ReplyDelete(Is there more than that?)
It was "hotshots" that almost gave it away. "Intestines" would've been a similarly easy clue. As would "horseshoer" and "teammate".
ReplyDeleteYes, that was deliberate. I thought it would be too hard otherwise.
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