Day 15: Halfway through the challenge!
Hi everyone!
Day 15 is here! How hard was it to get this far? You're halfway through!
For this day, I'm feeling a bit playful. And what is the word game par excellence? Scrabble!
This challenge is somehow related with Scrabble, in that I'm asking you to find as many words as you can with the letters that form a word. Say, for instance, that our word is WORD. Your goal is to find as many possible combinations with the letters W, O, R, D as you can. They must be accepted by the dictionary, of course! Some examples would be rod, dow, or row. With two letters, we could make the words or and do (but the longer, the better!)
The challenge, then, is the following:
- Give us as many existing words as you can made up of the letters in the words given below. Classify them by number of letters (in our example: 3 - rod, dow, row; 2 - or, do).
- And that's it. That's all we need!
And since day fifteen splits our challenge in half, the words we propose are
split
challenge
halves
It's ok if you find just a few! For the fiercely competitive, though, I'll let you know that the number of words you can make for each one is 32 words out of split, 67 out of halves, and a staggering 106 combinations out of the letters in challenge.
If this piques your interest, I suggest you try the super-entertaining New York Times puzzle Spelling Bee. You're gonna love it!
Have fun!
PS: ok, maybe you're too curious about that huge number of possibilities. I'm linking you here to the solutions. But don't check this until you've tried and read some comments by other players!
halves
split
challenge
Day 15 is here! How hard was it to get this far? You're halfway through!
For this day, I'm feeling a bit playful. And what is the word game par excellence? Scrabble!
This challenge is somehow related with Scrabble, in that I'm asking you to find as many words as you can with the letters that form a word. Say, for instance, that our word is WORD. Your goal is to find as many possible combinations with the letters W, O, R, D as you can. They must be accepted by the dictionary, of course! Some examples would be rod, dow, or row. With two letters, we could make the words or and do (but the longer, the better!)
The challenge, then, is the following:
- Give us as many existing words as you can made up of the letters in the words given below. Classify them by number of letters (in our example: 3 - rod, dow, row; 2 - or, do).
- And that's it. That's all we need!
And since day fifteen splits our challenge in half, the words we propose are
split
challenge
halves
It's ok if you find just a few! For the fiercely competitive, though, I'll let you know that the number of words you can make for each one is 32 words out of split, 67 out of halves, and a staggering 106 combinations out of the letters in challenge.
If this piques your interest, I suggest you try the super-entertaining New York Times puzzle Spelling Bee. You're gonna love it!
Have fun!
PS: ok, maybe you're too curious about that huge number of possibilities. I'm linking you here to the solutions. But don't check this until you've tried and read some comments by other players!
halves
split
challenge
So tough a challenge to me! After 20 minutes I have only found these:
ReplyDeletesplit
4: lips, slip
3: sit, lit, sip, pit
2: it
challenge
6: change
5: clean
4: hall, call, gall, gene, cell, hang, lane, gale
3: gel, lag, gee, nag, gal
halves
4: have
3: sea, has
Bye!
Thank you, Daniel! For a tough challenge, you did great! You can feel very proud!
DeleteDid you mean "such a tough challenge for me"?
So... Let me share with you my experience with this English-memory-patience challenge for me!
ReplyDeleteWhile I have worked on ALL of the previous challenges on a word document before submitting my answer, today I decided that I would write directly on the post.
The first time I did it, I was very happy. I also spent around 20 minutes and could fine a number of words to be proud of. Unfortunately, when I submitted my answer my internet connection stopped working and I lost it (when refreshing the page my answer had faded).
"Don't worry! Do it again! It's a way of challenging your memory, isn't it?" I told myself. So, I tried to do it again. I had the feeling I had missed a few words but it was still ok. So, the time came to submit it (again) and (again) there was a new internet failure.
I must admit I nearly flew off the handle at this point and then thought... "Ey! It's in your hand to turn this English-memory challenge into a Patience challenge! Why don't you give it a last go?"
So, this time I opened a Word document, worked on that (more memory work at this point, together with the patience one) and...et voilà! Here's my try!
Split:
5: spilt
4: spit, lips
3: lit, sip, tip,
2: it
Challenge
6: change
5: clean, angel,
4: cane, lane, lean, cell, call, hall, heal, heel, cage,
3: all, hen, leg, gel, lag,
2: en, el, an,
1: a
Halves
4: Have, sale, save, seal, heal,
3: sea, has,
2: el, es,
It's certainly been a tough, instructive and fun (at least for the first couple of times I tacked it) challenge! Thanks for it Bea!
Evelia, I'm so sorry, but I chuckled at your story! I'm sorry you had so many difficulties, but glad that you could see the silver lining! I love the fact that you aren't repeating words with Daniel!
DeleteGreat job!
Split:
ReplyDelete5: spilt
4: slip, tips, lips
3: lip, sit, tip, its, pit, lit, til
2: it, is
1: I
Challenge:
6: Change
5: angel, clean, legal, angle
4: hall, lane, call, gene, gane, heal, cell, cage, hang
3: all, can, age, leg, eel
2: an,
1: a
Halves
5: slave
4: have, save, sale, seal, heal
3: has, sea
2: as
I must confess that I looked some of the combinations on a dictionary to check if they were possible. Nice activity!
PD: what is the longest word in English (apart from that neverending name of a Welsh town, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch)?
I'm really glad you liked it, Miguel! And no problem if you're looking up the words in a dictionary! Actually, that's fantastic, as far as I'm concerned. Anything that helps you learn a new word!
DeleteAnd to answer your question, the longest word in English, theoretically, is the name of a protein, which has 189,819 letters and takes three hours to pronounce. But this is just a "theoretical word". The longest word in the dictionary, at 45 words, is the name of an illness, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, also known as silicosis.
I'm afraid that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch doesn't count, because it's Welsh ;) But who doesn't love that word?