Sandy Wood
Brain Game: On Broadway
by Sandy Wood - September 2, 2010 - 7:30 AM

bloghead_braingames.jpg

September is here, and right on schedule. When the month arrived, my trivial brain got right to work, wondering why September is the only month with two common abbreviations (Sep. and Sept.). While I didn’t know the answer, it did help me come up with today’s Brain Game.

Only two standard English words fit the pattern

_ _ _ _ S E P _ _ _ _

One of them is “antiseptics.”

What’s the other?
Here is the SOLUTION.
Pages: 1 2
« Previous Post   -   Next Post »
Click here to get a Risk-Free issue of mental_floss magazine
Comments (9)

  1. Got it within 10 seconds. Good one!

    posted by Jack on 9-2-2010 at 8:15 am

  2. Glad I finally looked at the solution… no way I would EVER get that…

    posted by StevenQ on 9-2-2010 at 8:27 am

  3. I’m with StevenQ, no way I was getting that. Not while I’m thinking of the same pronounciation of -sep- as in antiseptics

    posted by NukeGuy on 9-2-2010 at 11:23 am

  4. I figured that, Nuke, which is why I thought it was a worthy puzzle. It’s funny how you can hear it with the “sep” pronunciation and not even fathom that it’s something completely different.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 9-2-2010 at 11:32 am

  5. Figured it was a compound word… and still didn’t get it. Nice one.

    posted by Mark on 9-2-2010 at 11:45 am

  6. according to crossword-dictionary.com
    these three words fit the profile:
    CREASEPROOF
    GREASEPAINT
    GREASEPROOF

    They also included Cheese Pizza, which I liked, but was two words.
    :(

    posted by Lola on 9-2-2010 at 12:07 pm

  7. Thanks, Mark; and good ones, Lola! Those two words weren’t in my main dictionary, but I’d certainly count them as correct.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 9-2-2010 at 12:15 pm

  8. Transeptals!

    posted by Keith on 9-2-2010 at 2:21 pm

  9. Cheeseparer.

    posted by Harri on 11-8-2010 at 1:48 pm

Comment

commenting policy