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Icy North Started conversation Jul 12, 2005
This is a game where you have to solve the kind of word puzzles that you get in IQ tests.
Solve the puzzle, and then set one for others to solve.
Example: What word goes before each of the following words to make a new word: LEG, GUARD, BIRD, OUT
Answer: BLACK (Blackleg, Blackguard, Blackbird, Blackout)
So here goes:
Q. What word completes the first word and starts the second?
disc(4)drawn
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Icy North Posted Jul 12, 2005
That's correct, Bel.
Your turn... (I'm very relaxed about the format of these)
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 12, 2005
It's not as easy as you might think 
What word goes before each of the following words to make a new word:
beard,grass,stocking,stone ?
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Artisan Posted Jul 12, 2005
Phantom,Symptom.
What word precedes these words to make another,-
Throat, elephant,hot
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Icy North Posted Jul 14, 2005
white
Q. What word completes the first word and starts the second?
skip(4)pot
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Icy North Posted Jul 25, 2005
Hi Bel 
I'll post another question in that case
The answer was JACK (SKIPJACK, JACKPOT)
Another question:
Complete these common occupations:
**tician
***tician
****tician
*****tician
******tician
*******tician
(there is more than one answer for most of these)
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 25, 2005
ok, now here's the words I could come up with myself :
optician
politician
acoustician
I could either look them up nw, or wait until some more surface
Oh, and I'd never ever have solved the 'jack'
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Icy North Posted Jul 25, 2005
OK here are some clues:
***tician: somebody who tells you what to eat, or somebody who looks after dead people
******tician: Somebody who analyses data
*******tician: Plenty of famous German ones, including Gauss, Euler & Leibnitz
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Icy North Posted Jul 25, 2005
Both correct.
I suggest you post a new one, Bel. The last one's easy (with the clue) - somebody will get it soon.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 25, 2005
my brain's already in holiday mode, I'll have to think of something first 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 26, 2005
it took me so long to get back to you.
Name three words which can be read forwrds and backwards with the lettrs being in the same order (palindrome, I think they're called)
e.g.ANNA
(No proper names )
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Icy North Posted Jul 27, 2005
Tenet, Minim, Rotor
Which four-letter word can be placed before each of the following words to make a new word?
-age, -fall, -hold, -man, -loose, -plate
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 27, 2005
Which four-letter word can be placed before each of the following words to make a new word
back, bridge,knife,string
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