sheath pirate ashamed brandy
These four words share a quality unlike most words. Observe them carefully and report what you think it is that they have in common. The person who gets the closest to the answer will be dubbed "king of the day with too much time on his hands." *Note- there are many relationships to guess but you will undoubtebly KNOW the answer when it hits you, so you may want to refrain from posting unless you simply want to help the next person*
I read this riddle in a bathroom reader and it frustrated the crap out of me.
easy, they descibe moods(or whatever):
(s) "heath" (p) "irate" (a) "shamed" (b) "randy"
just take the first letter off :)
Quote from: visy on Sun 06/06/2004 10:45:48
easy, they descibe moods(or whatever):
(s) "heath"Ã, (p) "irate" (a) "shamed" (b) "randy"
just take the first letter off :)
heath
n 1: a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers 2: (British) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
argh, it wasn't that, was it :)
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Could it be that they have verbs in them? "eat", "rate", "ashame" and "brand"?
Not one of those heureka!-solutions, just an idea.
All of the words have vowels in them! I WIN AGAIN!
while visy and andail have given good clues, no one has guessed it yet.
I believe you mean "visy, Andail, AND DGMacphee"...
sheath pirate ashamed brandy
Each word can be broken down into 2 anagrams, when rearranged, they yield the following secret message:
rand has made at by the ripe ash
I'm a bit confused though because I dug holes around al the ash trees in my yard and didn't find any treasure there.
Quote from: stuh505 on Sun 06/06/2004 19:14:26I'm a bit confused though because I dug holes around al the ash trees in my yard and didn't find any treasure there.
Silly, they weren't ripe.
WIT!
I agree with DGMacphee though.
Ok, I think I got it now.
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They can be broken down into four new words, by cutting of letters.
sheath heath heat eat at
pirate irate rate ate at
ashamed (ashame) shame sham ham am
brandy randy rand (or andy) and an
Andail, you basically have the relationship but you need to realize and state the method you are using to form new words. Also, there is an alternate way to dissect "brandy".
I [sort of] remember something like this (though I think it was different words) from somewhere in my past ...
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Is it removing one letter from the front/back at a time to make a new word?
Sheath > heath - heat - eat - at
Pirate > irate - rate - ate - at
Ashamed > ashame - shame - ham - am
Brandy > Brand - bran - ran - an
Yep, and then even "a".
Congrats everyone.
heh. cool puzzle, though given that logic it means DG was the first of anyone to get it right. Although he didn't explicitly say the letter 'a', he did give the game away. And is it just me, or is it weird to have a word game where the whole point of the game is to realise that each of them contains the letter 'a'?
Either way, it was fun to think over.
Quote from: Peter Thomas on Mon 07/06/2004 06:06:54
heh. cool puzzle, though given that logic it means DG was the first of anyone to get it right. Although he didn't explicitly say the letter 'a', he did give the game away. And is it just me, or is it weird to have a word game where the whole point of the game is to realise that each of them contains the letter 'a'?
Either way, it was fun to think over.
Uh.. get some more sleep and then re-read the posts. That wasn't the puzzle key. ;)
Yes it was. Shut up.
yeah, I know it wasn't the key.
But it obviously WAS, seeing as DG thought of it, and he has the thundering-typhoonish wisdom of Captain Haddock.
That's right, you floundering flobblegobbers!!
Just read the AGS-manual:
"Whenever a word game is introduced to the community, Daniel McPherson will always be the first to solve it. Even if it looks like another person presented the solution first, the credit shall go to Daniel McPherson."
so as we say: STFU n00bs, and read the freaking manual!!
sheath pirate ashamed brandy
A wild, drunken, pirate sex party.Ã, Do I win?
Edit: Andail seems to have it and I'm going to go with him until I can form my own idea.