h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can you guess the word, using all the letters? If not, which is the longest word you can come up with?

Note: there is an Upper Case and Lower Case line of thirteen letters. Please do not mix the letters from both lines, you may only use the thirteen letters provided on one line.

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A A E I N N N O S S T T U

a a e i n n n o s s t t u

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Not quite but

INSTANTANEOUS

is the word.

I forgot to add the above to my post above

That was fast, DD! Especially considering how long it's been since we had the 'real thing' (can you tell I'm bored stiff at my w*rk?)

So what's the second longest word? And the third?

Pooh. And I got that one, too. Just a minute too late.

Yeah IU was bored stiff quiet day

Well SENSATION is in there as well

This forum's been quiet for a while! I must bump the other quiz threads...

Annuitants is longer than sensation.

*Waits till they're down to the "shortest word" when she can pounce with "ant".*

a!

B

Poor Trillian failing to spot either a or I or does that not count due to the no capitalised words allowed rule.

There's SUSTAINS in it, as well as SOUTANE and SONNETS.

Why do you have to choose between capslock and non-capslock?

B'Elana, if memory serves me correctly, there were some discussions long ago that some people find it easier to see all the letters if they were written in lower case, while others preferred upper case - so to accommodate all, Greebs offered both options.

All - have patience with me please, I'm making the rules up along the way...

The longest word gives 3 points, second longest 2 points, and third longest 1 point.

Since I didn't tell you until now, I won't calculate the points in this thread until tomorrow. You'll have until midnight GMT tonight to post here.

Thanks for explaining, I wasn't sure about the reason, that's why I asked.

3 points: DD
2 points: Icy North
1 point: DD

Results listed here: A17877603

Objection! I didn't realise one person could win two prizes.

B

Ooopsie! Sorry, you're right Master B - Greebo's own rules state that:

Only the first elligible word posted by you will gain points, if you have posted an already used word, you may post again to get points for that week.

Once you have posted your word, you may not (unless your first word has already been posted by another researcher) post another word.

So... that means the points will be:

3 points: DD
2 points: Icy North
1 point: B'Elana

Tut tut. I was about to come here and disown that point myself.