Sandy Wood
Brain Game: In Training?
by Sandy Wood - August 25, 2010 - 7:30 AM

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Thanks for playing the Wednesday Brain Game. Enjoy:

When rendered as city and state, the name of
which U.S. city (population over 150,000) contains
FIVE unique double-letter sequences (such as “BB” or “UU”)?

Here is the SOLUTION.

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Comments (11)

  1. Sorry to be a smart aleck but I’ve found a sixer. Ladies and gents I give you…

    Coffeeville Mississippi!

    posted by parkylondon on 8-25-2010 at 8:54 am

  2. Coffeeville, Mississippi has 5 unique and 1 repeated set, but doesn’t fit the requires 150K population.

    posted by Ryan Smith on 8-25-2010 at 8:58 am

  3. I feel so smart! :)

    posted by jamie on 8-25-2010 at 9:58 am

  4. Dang, I was thinking HoLLywOOd, MiSSiSSiPPi…but it too does not fit the population reqirement. Oh well, I still feel a little smarter.

    posted by Cressdogg on 8-25-2010 at 10:15 am

  5. There’s got to be a city in Hawaii that fits the profile.

    posted by Nick on 8-25-2010 at 10:32 am

  6. I couldn’t imagine one in Hawaii that would be “In Training.”

    posted by Betsy on 8-25-2010 at 10:34 am

  7. Nick, I thought the same, but surprisingly most of the Hawaiian names don’t feature repeated letters

    posted by Ryan Smith on 8-25-2010 at 10:38 am

  8. Oh… that kind of TRAINing. Pardon me boys, but I feel like a caboose.

    posted by Mark on 8-25-2010 at 10:43 am

  9. Chattanooga, Tennessee?

    posted by Lisa on 8-25-2010 at 11:21 am

  10. Why is nobody seeming to get that the double letters have to be unique???

    Mississippi only has TWO combinations of unique double letters. Any city in Mississippi would have to have three combos, and they couldn’t be s’s or p’s.

    Do we need clearer instructions?

    posted by Lola on 8-25-2010 at 12:04 pm

  11. Wow, Lola. Lay off the coffee.

    posted by Michael on 8-25-2010 at 12:32 pm

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