# Word puzzle fun **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970 "2004-06-30T23:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/21 "2004-07-01T11:18:00Z")
:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/22 "2004-07-01T15:24:19Z")
dorm dice wane price such crane Shucks, I didn’t even need the hints. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/23 "2004-07-01T15:29:33Z")
Thanks for elevating the level of discourse, **capn**! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/24 "2004-07-01T15:50:00Z")
My last post was an ill fated attempt at humor and undeniably not appropriate. My sincerest apologies. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/25 "2004-07-01T16:34:23Z")
Not a prob, **capn** – those who are still playing can take it as a hint. “Hmm, **capn** ’s list caused **twicks** to raise an eyebrow…” Thanks for a handsome apology. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/26 "2004-07-01T18:46:39Z")
so… dane lane shane wore would _work_? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/27 "2004-07-01T19:07:01Z")
Yup. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/28 "2004-07-02T12:28:57Z")
Okay boys and girls, maybe you can help with the following. I was straightening up last night and found the following list on a slip of paper: **PLAID** RAKED [the “R” overwriting something else, and the “K” overwriting a “C”, then the whole thing scribbed out; BAK (presumably on my way to BAKED, but this was also scribbed out; SLAKED changed to **STAKED** , which was thus the final version of the entry for that line. **WINES** Note: For the tinfoil hat crowd – this is clearly in my own handwriting, er, block printing, and it’s on a pad I use for shopping lists and the like. Okay, obviously (well, it’s obvious to me), I was working on a list of some sort of “Words that [something or other]” It also seems obvious to me that I was having a hard time coming up with additional examples – three words ain’t much of a list. The question is, of course – WTF was the premise I was playing with? Let me say a couple of things about how my mind works – I’ll put them in a spoiler box so if anyone’s still playing with the challenge above they won’t get any additonal hints: [spoiler]My tendency is to play with letter substitutions more than letter rearrangements. I am not a natural anagrammer. (Some people – like Merl Reagle, a name some puzzle aficianados might know – do it as naturlly as breathing. Not me.) For me, an early childhood memory is of spending all kinds of time trying to come up with combinations of letters that would be words if you fill-in-the-vowel with all five vowels, like MASS-MESS-MISS-MOSS-MUSS and PAT-PET-PIT-POT-PUT. I’ve got a long list (somewhere) of words that are still words if you drop the initial “S”: supper, switch, swallow, skill,… It goes on for two columns on a legal sheet. Some of this is stuff I end up being able to use at work – most of it is just for my own amusement. Anyway, the point is that that kind of letter-substitution thing is typical of about 90% of the wordplay stuff that I do in my head. It almost always involves self-contained words, not “take a letter from this word and put it in that word.” [/spoiler] So – any ideas where I might have been going with this? I’ll warn you now, _I do not know the answer to this_, but y’all seem like the right crew to help me with it. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/29 "2004-07-02T12:36:44Z")
Heh. You’re not going to believe it, but I looked at the list one more time, and the answer jumped out at me. I’ll leave it as a challenge, but I do know the answer now and can provide hints if necessary. Damn my brain works in some weird freakin’ ways. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/30 "2004-07-02T12:44:34Z")
are you just giving us PLAID RAKED WINES or is RAKED not in there? Or what? ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/31 "2004-07-02T12:45:48Z")
Oh . . . PLAID STAKED WINES sorry. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/32 "2004-07-02T13:33:23Z")
Was thinking about it as I drove to work. If I allowed proper nouns, CATHER CATHY would both work – but I don’t allow proper nouns, so that’s no good. I have work to do, and three people stacked up seeking my guidance, so I’ll be back later. Have fun… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/33 "2004-07-02T15:33:27Z")
Okay, here’s a few more: both brat chi dune edit fare fore pith pooh spied Hmmmm… hope I didn’t make it too easy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/34 "2004-07-02T15:47:34Z")
Add the letter “c” after the third letter in each word to form new word ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970/35 "2004-07-02T16:05:20Z")
Making the lovely and talented **capn** two for two. (Did the longer list make a difference?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-puzzle-fun/252970.md?page=1)