Daily puzzles/problems.

Ah, bird brain! Of course! It's a bit ironic that I didn't pick up on that.

You're supposed only to post the proposed connector, not the group itself. But what the hell.


Bird is not a group-of-three connection.

Neither's liturgical.

I have 2 groups of 5 at the moment.

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

I'm thinking "bird." (free)bird, bird(of song), bird(cage).

Oi Mick, I've been wondering all night, how'd you get "pig?" I can only find two, being pig(latin) and pig(pen).

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Seeing it was wrong I can reveal- Pig pen, Pig iron, and Pig ignorant I had never heard of Pig Latin.

See, the problem I always have with setting problems here is that if they're solved quickly I think, "Damn, shouldn't have made it so easy", and if they take a while I think, "Damn, the problem is probably badly set up."

The conversation at the moment is making think that 'free' was a bad clue - not attached sufficiently strongly to the word it's supposed to go with. So I'm going to make a small change to the problem....


Substitute 'cousin' for 'free'.....

This puzzle is firing on all cylinders. People are trying, for God's sake. If we each come up with three groups of five, and they're all different, imagine the fun we'll have paring them down together.


EDIT: "Liturgical" is out of the question, I guess?

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Originally Posted by billl

This puzzle is firing on all cylinders. People are trying, for God's sake. If we each come up with three groups of five, and they're all different, imagine the fun we'll have paring them down together.


EDIT: "Liturgical" is out of the question, I guess?

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Yeah. Should have said that. Have edited prior post to do so.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

I had never heard of Pig Latin.

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Evernay eardhay ofhay igpay atinlay? Aybemay stihay nahay ericanamay ingthay.

Here's a little side question, the answer to which I haven't verified but which sounds true. (In other words, I'd like it to be.)


Only one fully-functional spoken language was invented in the twentieth century. What was it? (And it's not Esperanto.)

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Originally Posted by MarkBastable

Here's a little side question, the answer to which I haven't verified but which sounds true. (In other words, I'd like it to be.)


Only one fully-functional spoken language was invented in the twentieth century. What was it? (And it's not Esperanto.)

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gotta be Klingon, right?

To be, or not to be...

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Originally Posted by billl

gotta be Klingon, right?

To be, or not to be...

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Yeah - isn't that brilliant?

What the ****

I saw a dictionary on sale recently--no way am I going to learn the language, but I still think I should've picked it up, oh well.

Two Things:

1) I'm still wondering if there's a rule about word position. For example, could "bird" form a group including both "bird brain" and "early bird"?

2) Is "Country" responsible for the group of three?

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Originally Posted by billl

Two Things:

1) I'm still wondering if there's a rule about word position. For example, could "bird" form a group including both "bird brain" and "early bird"?

2) Is "Country" responsible for the group of three?

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Yes.

And yes. (Smattering of applause.)

So - if 'country' is the group of three connector, what are the other three connectors for the groups of four?