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Shack
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A challenge
Can you think of a combination of letters where substituting in all of A, E, I, O or U for its vowel, makes it still a valid word?
For example pat, pet, pit, pot, put are all words, as are bag, beg, big, bog and bug.
However for this challenge, you must think of one that's at least 4 letters long. And it has to be a "normal" word rather than some obscure one that you had to look up before you knew it existed.
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:47 pm |
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: A challenge
Does it have to be a four letter word with a single vowel or are one or more allowed?
Chic = Choc Cham = Chum Chat = Chit Char = Cher (does that count?) Chap = Chip, Chop Clap = Clip, Clop Chaw = Chew, Chow (I'm from Appalachia, so...)
This? Or does it have to be a four letter word where filling in the vowel slot with every vowel is still a word, meaning 5 words.
And is something like... Fail = Foul = Feel = Foil allowed?
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:22 pm |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
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Re: A challenge
Tits and tots.
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:31 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Corpse wrote: And is something like... Fail = Foul = Feel = Foil allowed? You're only allowed to change one vowel such as pat, pet, pit, pot, put Technically I would allow it if a word had two vowels in it and the same one was changed every time, for example foil and fail, but I think it'd be nearly impossible to find any of those that complete the full set of all five vowels (in that case fuil, feil and fiil won't work). Actually fool, foul, foil, and foal comes pretty close, but dies on foel.
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:31 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Tits and tots. You need all 5 vowels for it to count, I believe tats and tuts are technically words in an obscure way, but tets is not. Plus to win the challenge it has to be 4 letter word.
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:33 pm |
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: A challenge
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Tits and tots. Dick = Dack = Deck = Dock = Duck I didn't know what Dack meant, so I guess I can be disqualified though. But this works!
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:39 pm |
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Rev
Romosexual!
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32114 Location: the last free city
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Re: A challenge
BARE BEER BIKE BOSS BUCK
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:40 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Corpse wrote: Flava'd vs The World wrote: Tits and tots. Dick = Dack = Deck = Dock = Duck I didn't know what Dack meant, so I guess I can be disqualified though. But this works! Good effort but I'm going to rule dack is too obscure
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:47 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Rev wrote: BARE BEER BIKE BOSS BUCK You can only change one vowel with the other letters the same, Bake and Bike would work together for example but not buke, boke and beke
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:50 pm |
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Rev
Romosexual!
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Re: A challenge
Shack wrote: Rev wrote: BARE BEER BIKE BOSS BUCK You can only change one vowel with the other letters the same, Bake and Bike would work together for example but not buke, boke and beke I HATE THIS GAME
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:02 pm |
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: A challenge
Last - Lest - List - Lost - Lust
This is the closest I got (today) with the least obscure word included. I was going through my DVD/Blu-ray collection (which I alphabetize) looking for four letter words in the titles and stopped on The Last Unicorn. I'll do "M" to "Z" tomorrow.
I suppose you could say "Lest" is obscure, anyway, and perhaps so, but it's much less so than the many other four letter words I came up with while working on this. "Lest we forget" is said fairly commonly, I feel. Is it a normal word? Probably not.
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:00 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Corpse wrote: Last - Lest - List - Lost - Lust
That one definitely counts and is one of the ones I had
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:05 pm |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
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Re: A challenge
More, mire, mere, mare, mure.
Mure works in scrabble.
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:07 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Flava'd vs The World wrote: More, mire, mere, mare, mure.
Mure works in scrabble. Too obscure on mure for me
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Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:14 pm |
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GuybrushX McMurphy
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Joined: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:28 pm Posts: 2795 Location: Germany
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Re: A challenge
Ball, Bell, Bill, Boll, Bull Mall, Mell, Mill, Moll, Mull
If either Boll or Mell doesn't count, you're the modern-day Putin.
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Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:45 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
GuybrushX McMurphy wrote: Ball, Bell, Bill, Boll, Bull Mall, Mell, Mill, Moll, Mull
If either Boll or Mell doesn't count, you're the modern-day Putin.
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Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:10 pm |
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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
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Re: A challenge
Pack Peck Pick Pock Puck Tack Teck Tick Tock Tuck
Last two I came up with by going through the alphabet once over, but each have an iffy word (Pock and Teck), but less iffy (especially Pock) than many other attempts (not that hard to get 4/5 on many words).
How many did you come up with, Shack?
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
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Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:51 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Corpse wrote: Pack Peck Pick Pock Puck Tack Teck Tick Tock Tuck
Last two I came up with by going through the alphabet once over, but each have an iffy word (Pock and Teck), but less iffy (especially Pock) than many other attempts (not that hard to get 4/5 on many words).
How many did you come up with, Shack? Other than the Last/Lest/List/Lost/Lust, I have two more not mentioned yet where the fifth word seems good enough to count. Plus a 3rd one that might count as it has a word most known for having a dash in the middle, but it seems defendable enough to use the first part of it only. Pock as a short way of saying pockmark seems like it might be valid, although I still haven't seen the word used that much, I don't know as much about skincare as some people though. I'd vote against Teck.
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Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:09 pm |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
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Re: A challenge
Does pier to peer work? I have my wordle cap on.
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Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:11 am |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Thegun wrote: Does pier to peer work? I have my wordle cap on. Yes but the goal is also for the word to work with a, o and u
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Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:25 am |
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Thegun
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Re: A challenge
Alright pear and pour.
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Sun May 01, 2022 3:36 am |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Thegun wrote: Alright pear and pour. Need all 5 at once by only changing the same vowel eg last, lest, list, lost, lust
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Sun May 01, 2022 12:07 pm |
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Alex Y.
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Re: A challenge
Shack wrote: You're only allowed to change one vowel such as pat, pet, pit, pot, put Pats, pets, pits, pots, puts
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Mon May 02, 2022 3:35 pm |
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
Alex Y. wrote: Shack wrote: You're only allowed to change one vowel such as pat, pet, pit, pot, put Pats, pets, pits, pots, puts True
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Shack
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Re: A challenge
My other answers were
Mass, Mess, Miss, Moss, Muss
Hack, Heck, Hick, Hock, Huck
Borderline: Mash, Mesh, Mish, Mosh, Mush (Only if you consider "mish mash" two different words)
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