It’s that time again…
What is the significance of the following list? Either put your answer in a spoiler box for those who come along later, or add a few more examples.
ACHE
BATH
CARP
DUMB
EAST
FETE
GARB
HOOP
ICKY
JOLT
KILN
LIFE
MINX
NEXT
OUST
PULP
RUDE
SLAY
TOUT
UMPS
VILE
WORK
YANK
ZING
They each start with successive letters of the alphabet?
You can take out the third letter and make another word
And Alice nails it. Three hours! Yay! I should post these on Saturday mornings more often!
You got to get up pretty early in the morning to fool me… or I just always wanted to say that. You gotta make these harder, twicks- I coulda done that even without coffee, but fortunately I didn’t have to.
They’re not intended to be all that hard – I’ll just randomly think of a bit of word manipulation (that one started with “WORK”), fill it out to a list, and post it here – because this is MPSIMS, and what else can I do with something that M&P but S it?
I will give you “Bah”, but is “Ums” a word? I think I would have gone with “undo”.
I’m a stickler on no proper names and no foreign words on these, which made “u” tricky – and Q and X impossible.