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Congratulations to Meri, who successfully figured out the answer to edition #14 of our Weekend Genius Challenge:
Our question was to find the common link amongst these words:
bicentennial, hallucinogen, hitchhiker, reincarnation, unfamiliar.
The answer was that each word could be spelled using a string of atomic element symbols:
Bi + Ce + N + Te + N + Ni + Al
H + Al + Lu + C + In + O + Ge + N
H + I + Tc + H + H + I + K + Er
Re + In + Ca + Rn + At + I + O + N
Un + F + Am + I + Li + Ar
Nice job Meri, and thanks to all the participants who kept coming up with more and more plausible answers. See you next weekend!
Comments (7)
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You can also do “Crack Whore”
Cr Ac K Wh O Re
Shockingly, I didn’t do so well in chem…
posted by Steve on 1-7-2008 at 12:12 pm
The heck? I consider myself a pretty smart guy, but how do you even start thinking about that being the solution?!!?
posted by Dan on 1-7-2008 at 1:14 pm
Brilliant! Just about the best solution I’ve ever seen, to anything!
posted by Mike Jackson on 1-7-2008 at 1:23 pm
Wow! Very Impressive, Meri!
posted by JaneM on 1-7-2008 at 1:54 pm
Thats Crazy Smart Observationalism.
posted by joe on 1-7-2008 at 2:49 pm
I won! Wow! I can’t believe it!
:-)
posted by Meri on 1-7-2008 at 6:27 pm
I remember seeing that guess and thinking, “No Way In Hell”…shows what I know. Congrats, Meri. Well played!
posted by Johnny Cat on 1-8-2008 at 12:18 am