Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 2 miles and consonants are worth 3 miles.
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Puzzle 198
Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.
The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.
Can you determine what the 10 words are?
rbr ent ard man tor rbo
and ban con erf dst dli
fly spa dra dif hai ght
per all fis ove ush hea
new gon fer wat her duc
Hints
The first letters of the words are: W, O, B, H, D, F, C, N, H, D.
Answers
wat + erf + all = waterfall
ove + rbo + ard = overboard
ban + dst + and = bandstand
hai + rbr + ush = hairbrush
dif + fer + ent = different
fis + her + man = fisherman
con + duc + tor = conductor
new + spa + per = newspaper
hea + dli + ght = headlight
dra + gon + fly = dragonfly
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Puzzle 199
For each of these words, using only the letters of that word, what is the longest word that can be found?
Every letter must be used at least once, and no other letters can be used.
For example:
taper = repeat · tapper · parapet · pretreat, and many more. But what is the longest word?