bonanova Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 It's Saturday night, and being a puzzle writer I have no social life. So I make a list of a dozen things: 1. A destroyer of compasses 2. A massive herbivore 3. A peculiar behavior 4. A portrayal, as [if] perfect 5. A student of obfuscation 6. A way for water to disappear 7. An earth scientist 8. Some bilious organs 9. Some cell phones 10. Some foot doctors 11. Some groups of possibly heterogeneous things considered as a whole 12. Some people who study races I lazily let my pencil wander down through the list, three times, thus dividing each word into four pieces of lengths 2, 3, 4: AG BL GE GR ID PT VA [7] ACK ADD AGN ALI ASY BER CRY DEM EDI ERS ETH ETI GAL HIP HOP IDE IST ION IOS IZA LBL MUS NOL OGI OPH ORT OTA POP POR STS STS YSI ZAT ZER [34] CIST EGAT IONS OLOG RIES TION YNCR [7] Finally, I notice that if I take the 2nd letter of each word, I get something appropriate for this forum. What is it? [The words are nouns of equal length, and singular or plural as the clues indicate.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fabpig Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 2. IDIOSYNCRASY 8. GALLBLADDERS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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0 bonanova Posted June 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2012 All words are correct. And so the answer is ... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted June 24, 2012 Report Share Posted June 24, 2012 A great riddle! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted June 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2012 A great riddle! Perfect. Perhaps presumptuous on my part, but amazingly, that's what fell out. Seriously? Nah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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It's Saturday night, and being a puzzle writer I have no social life.
So I make a list of a dozen things:
1. A destroyer of compasses
2. A massive herbivore
3. A peculiar behavior
4. A portrayal, as [if] perfect
5. A student of obfuscation
6. A way for water to disappear
7. An earth scientist
8. Some bilious organs
9. Some cell phones
10. Some foot doctors
11. Some groups of possibly heterogeneous things considered as a whole
12. Some people who study races
I lazily let my pencil wander down through the list, three times,
thus dividing each word into four pieces of lengths 2, 3, 4:
AG BL GE GR ID PT VA [7]
ACK ADD AGN ALI ASY BER CRY DEM EDI ERS
ETH ETI GAL HIP HOP IDE IST ION IOS IZA
LBL MUS NOL OGI OPH ORT OTA POP POR STS
STS YSI ZAT ZER [34]
CIST EGAT IONS OLOG RIES TION YNCR [7]
Finally, I notice that if I take the 2nd letter of each word, I get something appropriate for this forum.
What is it?
[The words are nouns of equal length, and singular or plural as the clues indicate.]
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