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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Seven Down
by Sandy Wood - July 2, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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First off, I thought you brave puzzle-solvers (and fans of the National Treasure film series) would enjoy this article from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. After more than 200 years, a mathematician successfully decrypted a code text that had been sent to Thomas Jefferson.

Today’s Brain Game isn’t nearly as difficult; you’ll start with a single letter of the alphabet and build into a seven-letter word. You’ll accomplish this by adding one letter of the alphabet to the mix with each entry, and (if necessary) rearranging the existing letters, to form new words. (Example: I, IN, NIP, PINS, SPINE…) Good luck!

1-letter word: a type of boat
2-letter word: a Weekly magazine
3-letter word: see first clue
4-letter word: a baseball team
5-letter word: a diving aid
6-letter word: a math aid
7-letter word: an Italian liqueur

Here is the SOLUTION.
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Comments (10)

  1. U, US, SUB, CUBS, SCUBA, ABACUS, SAMBUCA

    posted by Jeff on 7-2-2009 at 8:18 am

  2. I got it slightly different

    U
    US
    SUB
    BUCS (which is a nickname for the Pittsburgh Pirates)
    SCUBA
    ABACUS
    SAMBUCA

    posted by Ian on 7-2-2009 at 8:21 am

  3. I got it as well…..happy to get one once in a while!

    interesting recaptcha: demount weekly

    what do you suppose that means!?

    posted by Sandie on 7-2-2009 at 9:25 am

  4. I’m with Sandie – nice to get one wihtout hurting my brain! It’s the last day before a holiday weekend, so I’ll take it! That was fun…

    posted by Josh on 7-2-2009 at 9:43 am

  5. Yipee! I too got the right answers! Something to put a smile on my face ahead of a day off from work!

    posted by Carolyn on 7-2-2009 at 2:27 pm

  6. I got all but the last one. I am not familiar with that spirit.

    posted by Brian on 7-2-2009 at 2:42 pm

  7. I got one!! that was fun. :)
    I think we should have more word games!

    posted by Lindsey on 7-2-2009 at 5:33 pm

  8. These are definitely my favorite! I think you should come up with a bunch of these, keep them in reserve, and use them whenever you get the urge to use another poem wot you writ yourself. :)

    posted by Nick on 7-2-2009 at 9:22 pm

  9. I can get behind anything that leads to sambuca, especially in my coffee.

    posted by Louis Rodriguez on 7-2-2009 at 9:32 pm

  10. Got them all except the first and last

    posted by Acacia on 9-21-2009 at 2:40 am

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