Braingle: 'Mix and Match #2' Brain Teaser

Mix and Match #2

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Puzzle ID:	#16288
Fun:	(2.97)
Difficulty:	(1.79)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	fishmed
Corrected By:	calmsavior

Here is a group of common three-letter words. Can you take these and turn them into half as many 6 letter words? Each three-letter word is used only once.

bar, bit, box, boy, car, day, den, dim, fly, hid, low, now, nut, pan, pea, sun, ten, try, win, wit

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Rowsdower Jan 27, 2004	Excellent teaser, Doc!
griphook Jan 28, 2004	love this
bbngk Feb 08, 2004	Hep Hep Hep Hooray
brenbeadsp Feb 23, 2004	excellent teaser, thanks
thebuddhawithin Feb 24, 2004	this is cool! but whats winnow?
fishmed Feb 24, 2004	winnow means to seperate chaff from grain, like wheat, or more plainly, to remove the undesirable portion of something. Glad you liked it.
quantumpbrane Apr 22, 2005	very clever. fun too.
peanut Apr 22, 2005	The perfect way to kick my brain into operation on a friday morning! But who or what is a lowboy???? Can't find it in the dictionary...
BabyK Apr 22, 2005	I like this 1
(user deleted) Apr 22, 2005	Isn't a lowboy a peice of furniture? This was a fun way to start the day. Not to taxing on the whats's left of my brain at the end of the work week
markmonnin Apr 22, 2005	you can mix up lowboy and barfly and get flyboy and barlow, which also six letter words. That's how I came up with the "incorrect" answer.
Chelsie Apr 22, 2005	That was fun! Although I got the answer...I had no idea what "lowboy" was
Kinergy Apr 22, 2005	This is one of the best puzzles I've ever seen on this site. It's very fun and difficult. I trapped myself by making CARBOY, which left box low behind. Had to check the answer out unfortunately.
Icykillamonkie Apr 22, 2005	Good GOOOD I want more!
(user deleted) Apr 22, 2005	This was lots of fun and not difficult enough to make my head ache! Thanks.
bayoubelle Apr 22, 2005	I really enjoyed this teaser...i was left with the words win and now...didnt know winnow was a word
(user deleted) Apr 22, 2005	a fun way to start the day.
erict1628 Apr 22, 2005	That's a nice teaser.
Melly13 Apr 22, 2005	I thought that was a good brain teaser, however, is "lowboy" really a word?
FulanitoGM Apr 22, 2005	Great teaser! I almost got them all right! Like Kinergy, I trapped myself by making an incorrect match, "lowpan." Someone help me out; is that a word?
donfrench Apr 22, 2005	markmonnin, Is barlow is a word?
donfrench Apr 22, 2005	lowboy: A low or short chest or table with drawers, often on short legs I found this using Google, entering define:lowboy. This is the best dictionary ever. So then I tried define:barlow, and sure enough: An optical element put before the eyepiece to increases the magnifying power of the eyepiece. Common barlows multiply the focal length of the primary, resulting in 2 or 3 times more power with the same eyepiece.
reznor2001 Apr 22, 2005	was doing good and then got confused when one of my options would have been lowboy. Didn't think that was a word. Good puzzle though, i love word games.
Muffintins Apr 22, 2005	Okay, that was good.
darthforman Apr 22, 2005
(user deleted) Apr 22, 2005	instead of lowboy and barfly, would two other acceptable words be: flyboy barlow
tamjp Apr 22, 2005	Loved the teaser and really loved the comments. I was stuck with win now and lowboy too. Also confused myself when I tried to make boxboy, another name for a grocery store bagger. Thanks for this clever teaser. I love word puzzles
picaza Apr 22, 2005	pretty easy but fun
kcelf27 Apr 22, 2005	The first one I saw right off the bat was boxboy. I'm surprised only one other person shared my find. Must be a regional thing. I'm on the west coast. Glad to learn new words too!!!
FeaerFactorY666 Apr 22, 2005	Some of the words didn't make sense....... Oh well.... I didn't get it............
vikingboy Apr 22, 2005	Nice job. Having a telescope, I had heard of Barlow, so I went with that and Flyboy.
mzbhavin Apr 22, 2005	This is really cute, I am going to try it on 7th graders on Monday really cute!
gamegirl Apr 22, 2005	I got them all but barfly and lowboy, didn't know how to combine those 4 into words I knew. This was the most fun I've had in a teaser, GREAT!!!!!
nvsourab Apr 22, 2005	This brain teaser is hard!!!
brain_dead Apr 22, 2005	NICE!!!
(user deleted) Apr 22, 2005	this one was almost too easy,but since I miss so many ohers I'll take it
drea_r_70 Apr 23, 2005	I got all the answers but 2, instead of barfly I had flyboy and insteadof lowboy i had lowbar but i got all the answers
froggygg Jul 29, 2005	Another great teaser! This time, I got all ten right!
Smudge Jun 20, 2006	a barlow is also a type of jackknife
Brainy_1 Oct 20, 2006	Oh yeah...I liked this!! It was fun!! Nice job!
lmurray Oct 27, 2006	THE DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY RATING ON THIS TEASER IS "OVER" RATED.
OldChinaHand Oct 27, 2006	Had to get out the quail and parchment for a couple of these. A fine teaser, thanks for the effort.
Lizzie713 Oct 27, 2006	Hehehehehehehehehehehe Great teaser It made me think Well done Thanks Again
nu_rob_roy Oct 27, 2006	I didn't get them all, but had fun trying. Good on you. You must really have gotten someone, he's still all mouth and still non productive at 318. Where are the teasers, Mr. genius?
cuteandditzy Oct 27, 2006	Nice job. Got them all except winnow. Figured it out when I read the comments.
bradon182001 Oct 27, 2006	Easy but fun. Good teaser.
schmedley9 Oct 27, 2006	WHATS A WINNNOW??? BUT GREAT JOB.
jaydeco Oct 27, 2006	That was fun and tricky!
coachpisco Oct 27, 2006	It was easy, but lots of fun. It doesn't have to be hard to be fun.
wordmama Oct 27, 2006	Easy but GREAT fun!! I enjoyed this the most of all the puzzles since I recently started adding to your comments. I knew lowboy and winnow; now I've learned barlow!! Bet it'll come in handy some day in one of the many word puzzles I live on!! Thank you, fishmed; more, more, more!
Pizzazz2u Oct 27, 2006	A quick and easy teaser, to get your mind into action. It is easy! But, to get your mind into action, what the he--!!
RRAMMOHAN Oct 27, 2006	Got Barfly and Lowboy by elimination. Rest were quite easy but interesting. Thanks!
zaya Oct 27, 2006	Enjoyed it, though difficulty rating is higher than it really is. Was left w/Lowboy at the end, which while its a word seems awfully obscure.
highway101 Oct 27, 2006	Boxboy is an old term that was used @ grocery stores. I think the gender friendly term is now bagger or sacker.
highway101 Oct 27, 2006	Oh sorry fishmed I didn't thank you for this one. I enjoyed it, but I love word scrambles.
BeckyD Oct 27, 2006	Ok, I admit... I ALSO got "flyboy" and "Barlow." Although, according to the answers, these weren't correct, they could still be used... so even though I got most of them right, but missed these two, I still think I got them ALL right!! And the reason I got Barlow, is because I also have a Barlow knife handed down to me from my grandfather. And I DO know what a "Flyboy" is!!! And, in my opinion... again!... Imurray needs to stop being so doggone NEGATIVE!! I mean, hey, if you don't like these teasers, then stay away!!
jcann Oct 27, 2006	My mom used to always call the tall dresser in their bedroom a highboy and the one with the mirror a lowboy, so I didn't have any trouble with that word. My dad was an accountant at a furniture manufactuing company, so I guess maybe that's why it was a common word in our house. I like these teasers. It took some real thinking to come up with so many words that equaled exactly three and then six letter. Good job, fishmed.
POPS Oct 27, 2006	One of the best I have seen Very creative and fun Thank you I will save this one for sure
OhEmGee Oct 27, 2006	this took too long i dont have that much time people
jabdr1 Oct 27, 2006	Good one! Not a slam dunk but very doable with a little effort. Thanks Fishmed
ngalvin Oct 27, 2006	New to the site. Great fun, but what's up with Imurray? Thanks fishmed!
saleprice Oct 27, 2006	Like this one, thx fishmed... Got boxcar or boxboy leaving nothing for lowboy and although I know what winnow is I did`nt get it lol
yousuck666 Oct 27, 2006	ooh sexy
vlerma Oct 28, 2006	fishmed this was great. So much fun. More please.
jelnova Oct 28, 2006	i knew highboy and lowboy, my dad's dresser and my mom's dresser just like someone else noted. I had one false start because I used wintry as a word and then had to think again, but i got it. I was going to send it to a homeschooling mother I know but I don't think she'll leave dimwit or barfly in, not for the age kids she has! fun and nice (unlike some posters!)
speedqueenkmw Oct 29, 2006	didn't get pantry, duh really enjoyed this one, let's have more
tdbrsun Oct 29, 2006	I was thinking barboy??? but, I did get some of the words. I think this was a good one! Thanks
Qrystal Dec 05, 2006	Cool teaser. I got stuck in WINTRY gloom, and thus couldn't find the PANTRY... and there seems to be no such thing as "PANNOW" so I decided to give up. I also went with barlow and flyboy. Yay for astronomy and barlow lenses!
piano_player May 31, 2007	whats a winnow?
fishmed Jun 14, 2007	Winnow means to separate, such as wheat from chaff, by use of blowing air, as wheat is heavy, while the rest is light and just blows away.
elentir Oct 27, 2009	I too came up with flyboy and barlow, since I own a telescope and frequently use barlow lenses. Fun quiz!
doehead Oct 27, 2009	Another one for the kiddies. Way too EZ.
auntiesis Oct 27, 2009	Fun and easy. The first one I got was barfly, and I thought I might be wrong, but it worked out right. Thanks for a good one.
doehead Oct 27, 2009	I didn't mention about it being another old repeat, because I don't want to get shannmo's dandruff flared up.
shannmo Oct 27, 2009	ooohhhhhh!!!! I am so hurt by that!!!! Oh why do you have to slam me soooooo much!!! ooooHHHh waaaahhhh1 oh it hurts it hurts OOOHHHHHH!!!!!!
leroyleroy Oct 27, 2009	EASY AND FUN
doehead Oct 27, 2009	SUCCESS
shannmo Oct 27, 2009	sarcasm
doehead Oct 27, 2009	MORE SUCCESS
here2 Oct 27, 2009	I got Barlow and Flyboy, but for very different reasons. I had heard the band Barlow Girl. Now I have an idea of what a Barlow actually is. thanks for the quiz!
hubbamutt777 Oct 27, 2009	no offense, but THAT WAS SO CONFUSING! ! ! ! ! i forgot that each word could be the first OR last letter. ooooooops!
fishmed Oct 28, 2009	Here2, my family actually know the girls from Barlow Girl. Their family and ours homeschool and we were in the same Christian theater group. Their father taught classes, as did my wife. So both taught both our kids and the Barlow ladies at a tender age.
Babe Oct 27, 2012	I got them all but a couple because I had boxboy instesd of lowboy. You know, boxboy from the grocery store. It was a fun to do teaser. Thanks for that.
gaylewolf Oct 27, 2012	I loved that one! That type of puzzle is right up my alley. Thanks for a good one!
cutebug Oct 27, 2012	Very very easy,but interesting.
HABS2933 Oct 27, 2012	I agree with cutebug, very easy but lots of fun. I didn't even think of boxboy as some others did, I got lowboy straight away as I own two highboys so knew straightway what a lowboy was.
thecatladycac Oct 27, 2012	I printed out the 3-letter words and crossed them off as I used them. I wrote down the new words as I matched them. I had no trouble coming up with the correct new words, but because of the process I went through, I gave it a medium difficulty. All in all, a very enjoyable puzzle which included some fun words (barfly, dimwit) and maybe old fashioned words (lowboy). Thanks for submitting!
jeRussell Oct 27, 2012	Carboy and wintry for misdirection.