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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: All for One, and One for All, and 3 for 5
by Sandy Wood - November 10, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Good luck with today’s Brain Game:

By placing the same three-letter sequence into each of the five blanks below, you can form five different words. What are the three letters?

DO____AIL
COR____TE
K____CH
RI____ING
CO____OUS

Here is the SOLUTION.
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  1. Hmmm. Probably the easiest one yet.

    posted by J H on 11-10-2009 at 8:06 am

  2. VET!

    posted by Alex N on 11-10-2009 at 8:09 am

  3. Wow! I think that’s the quickest I’ve ever solved one of your games.
    Fluke guess!
    Third word can really throw off people.

    posted by J on 11-10-2009 at 8:14 am

  4. Ahh, the kvetch threw me off

    posted by Ryan Smith on 11-10-2009 at 8:25 am

  5. woohoo i got it! dovetail is what did it for me. dunno why

    posted by brandon on 11-10-2009 at 8:26 am

  6. Proper nouns like Corvette shouldn’t count. But I still figured it out.

    posted by Chad Cloman on 11-10-2009 at 8:27 am

  7. Chad, “corvette” was a word for a type of ship long before it was used as a proper name for the sports car and the vacuum cleaner. (It seems like I remember seeing a Corvette vacuum cleaner, anyway.)

    posted by Sandy Wood on 11-10-2009 at 8:44 am

  8. “Corvette” is not necessarily a proper noun. It was a type of ship long before Chevrolet adopted it. You might as well disallow “mustang” as a proper noun.

    posted by Lugh on 11-10-2009 at 8:50 am

  9. Got it. #3 had me thinking klatch for some reason, but dovetail brought it home.

    posted by Pylon on 11-10-2009 at 10:08 am

  10. I get it, tomorrow is Veterans Day. Hence, “vet”.

    posted by Chance on 11-10-2009 at 10:38 am

  11. Funny that “dovetail” is the one that gives it away for some of you. Of course, I’ve been humming “Glass Onion” since I keyed this in yesterday. :)

    posted by Sandy Wood on 11-10-2009 at 11:22 am

  12. VET? Actually I got that on the first one, and was proud of myself, I don’t usually do that good.

    posted by Sandie on 11-10-2009 at 12:23 pm

  13. Easy – had it on the 1st one. Vet for Veteran’s Day.

    “Trying to make a dovetail joint, yeah.” :)

    posted by Nerak on 11-10-2009 at 12:57 pm

  14. This was so easy because the first word only has one solution. DO___AIL can only be dovetail. This kind of problem should have clues with multiple possibilities, not words as singular in their construction as kvetch and corvette.

    If RI___ING would have at least made me look at the second word before I figured it out.

    posted by David on 11-10-2009 at 3:28 pm

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