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NOTE: We used Microsoft Word’s spell-check feature as a fair way to determine whether the words were legitimate. Your dictionary may contain more or fewer words that meet the requirements… and you know what? That’s okay.
tact, tart, taut, teat, tent, test, text, that, tilt, tint, toot, tort, tout, trot, tuft, twit
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My co-worker and I got 13 our of the 16. We can’t believe we missed that! Good game!
posted by Tricia on 7-28-2008 at 7:27 am
Taft.
posted by James on 7-28-2008 at 7:38 am
What about tsar or tzar? You forgot those. :)
Fun brain game though, I like the word ones.
posted by Forté on 7-28-2008 at 7:58 am
I am admittedly not good with word games, but I got 10. that’s good for me. I missed taut, text, tuft, tilt, tact, and tout. Thanks to my cryptaquote gaming, I did get “that”.
posted by gokarm on 7-28-2008 at 7:59 am
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I don’t think that tsar or tzar fit the criteria.
posted by GTrees on 7-28-2008 at 8:33 am
Yeah, I got all but “toot”! (And the later mentioned tsar)
I had taft too, but I wasn’t sure if it would count.
posted by Dave on 7-28-2008 at 8:34 am
Forte: Neither “tsar” nor “tzar” ends with the letter “T,” so they wouldn’t work.
That’s okay, though. I know it’s Monday morning. I might’ve done the same thing!
posted by Sandy on 7-28-2008 at 8:35 am
And yeah, with Taft being a proper noun, it was left off the list.
But to compensate, a mental_floss trivia tidbit that hits close to home: Did you know that our magazine’s senior art director, Winslow Taft, is related to President William Howard Taft?
It’s true. And no, they look nothing alike.
posted by Sandy on 7-28-2008 at 8:37 am
Wikipedia: Tsar
(also tzar and csar and czar)
“Originally, the title tsar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term…”
posted by Dave on 7-28-2008 at 8:37 am
Um, Dave… Regardless of the veracity of “Tsar” as a word, it still doesn’t _end_ with T! :)
posted by Jeff on 7-28-2008 at 9:03 am
tift
posted by andy on 7-28-2008 at 9:10 am
What a fun game! I actually got all 16 that you came up with, just by methodically going through the alphabet. Good way to get my brain going this morning!
Josh
posted by Josh on 7-28-2008 at 9:31 am
Tant – A small scarlet arachnid.
Tift – A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
posted by Todd on 7-28-2008 at 9:44 am
Oops… one more.
Toft – A homestead. A hillock.
posted by Todd on 7-28-2008 at 9:46 am
tost
which is basically just tossed…
posted by georgia on 7-28-2008 at 10:01 am
Piece of cake! Even came up with the rude one. Didn’t need spellcheck or a dictionary.
posted by Alice on 7-28-2008 at 11:01 am
TINT
posted by bILL on 7-28-2008 at 12:55 pm
teed – as in golf
posted by kendra on 7-28-2008 at 1:19 pm
14/16, but one of the words I missed was “tort”. And I’m a law student. My professors would not be pleased.
posted by Chad on 7-28-2008 at 1:31 pm
It’s amazing the people who want to throw in their two cents and not even pay attention to the rules of the game. Bravo twats!
posted by will on 7-28-2008 at 2:28 pm
What about the word “twit”?
posted by Jeffrey on 7-28-2008 at 2:55 pm
Ooops, just noticed it up there.
posted by Jeffrey on 7-28-2008 at 2:57 pm
What about Trot? I got 12 otherwise.
posted by Morgan on 7-28-2008 at 3:27 pm
What about “Trot”?
posted by Morgan on 7-28-2008 at 3:28 pm
TROT is on there.
posted by Jaime on 7-28-2008 at 4:03 pm
Toast. There are also a couple dirty words that fit the description that I won’t say.
posted by Steve on 7-28-2008 at 4:16 pm
Wow… I love how so many of the comments have words that either don’t begin and end with T (”tsar” and “teed”, for instance) or aren’t even four letters (my personal favorite being “toast,”). Gee. :D
PS: my reCaptcha is “de- Ballet.” I wonder if the computer is trying to tell my ballerina self something. O.o
posted by Allison on 7-28-2008 at 8:37 pm
Oh my God, I cannot believe I forgot toot, of all things. I got all the other 15, though.
And I do cryptoquotes, too, gokarm. Best word game ever.
posted by Delia on 7-29-2008 at 12:31 am
Missed tout and tuft. What’s with the tsar posts? Can’t they read the directions?
posted by Craig on 7-31-2008 at 12:21 am
TRET: 3d pers. s 1. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
n. 1. (Com.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.
posted by BunchOf Tubes on 7-31-2008 at 12:09 pm