Sandy Wood
Brain Game: As Easy as ABCD
by Sandy Wood - July 10, 2008 - 6:30 AM

ANSWER: You’d add L, M, N and O to form the word “LUMINOUS.”

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Comments (11)
  1. Wow, I got one.

  2. luminous…wasnt that had to figure out especially with that “..us” being there

  3. Nice job, Adrienne!

    That’s what we shoot for. Some you get (and feel good about), some you don’t (and learn something). It’s best to have a mixture of the two.

  4. Yay, I love the word ones because I actually have a change of getting them right (all that dictionary perusing coming in handy)! I still try the number ones though, just in case. Keep it up, Sandy!

    reCaptcha: Sousa standing–that just sounds awesome. :-D

  5. luminous….that one was easy.

    hey my recaptcha is “what happened”
    that’s what I really want to know…what happened???

  6. I got it! yay.

    it was interesting to figure out. I got the O first, since “ous” is a common word ending. worked backwards from there.

    I’m very pleased with myself. :-]

  7. I always liked the word facetious because it had all the vowels in order…

  8. YAY this is the first one I’ve ever gotten right!

  9. Sandy: I worked this out the same way as jenny. Usually I just cheat and check the answer, especially if it’s a math/number question. Anytime it’s a word or some sort of vocabulary, though, I actually give it a shot.

  10. I hardly ever get these, today’s must just have been super easy.

  11. what about ‘almost’ and ‘chintz,’ which have all 6 letters in order?

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