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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: As Easy as ABCD
by Sandy Wood - March 24, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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What comes after Math Monday? Text Tuesday? Okay, then. Following are three words, each of which are missing four letters. Your task is to fill in the blanks with four consective letters of the alphabet (think ABCD, BCDE, CDEF, and so on) to form words. The blanks in the example “_ _ D U _ T E _” could be filled in with A, B, C, and D to form the word “ABDUCTED.” Here we go:

1. _ O _ _ _ O L Y

2. _ E _ _ F _ L

3. _ _ _ I N I N _

Here are the ANSWERS.

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Comments (8)

  1. Shouldn’t the example word be “__DU_TE_”

    EDITORIAL NOTE: You’re right, Jack; there was a missing letter in the sample. All fixed!

    posted by Jack P. on 3-24-2009 at 7:59 am

  2. Relatively easy if you do it backwards.

    posted by Ed on 3-24-2009 at 8:08 am

  3. I liked this — it wasn’t very hard but it was kind of fun.

    posted by Jacquilynne on 3-24-2009 at 10:12 am

  4. Nailed it.

    posted by Will on 3-24-2009 at 10:15 am

  5. I actually got this brain game (I don’t get very many). I pride myself on knowing the alphabet backwards (comes from staring at the alphabet on the wall during elementary school), so this one was pretty easy.

    posted by Shelly on 3-24-2009 at 12:04 pm

  6. You know which video game character would be great at this game? _ie__if_l Joe.

    I’m very, very, unnecessarily proud of myself for that one.

    posted by Mike on 3-24-2009 at 1:26 pm

  7. How about

    _ _ _ ac _ ing

    _ uee _ e_ _

    posted by Dinosaur on 3-24-2009 at 1:55 pm

  8. RE: Mike – If you’re answer is Viewtiful Joe, since when do V and W come before T and U in the alphabet? I believe the point of this exercise is to use the consecutive letters in consecutive order — meaning T, U, V, W – in that order. Sorry, but Viewtiful Joe just doesn’t work here!

    posted by Fred on 3-24-2009 at 4:57 pm

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