Braingle: 'Crafty Words' Brain Teaser

Crafty Words

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

Puzzle ID:	#17658
Fun:	(2.84)
Difficulty:	(3.1)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	fishmed
Corrected By:	horse_luver

Take the list of words below and arrange them into 3 sentences that all have something in common. Each word is only used once each time they appear in the list. ('A' can be used 4 times as it's in the list 4 times.) Punctuation is not an issue in this teaser.

A, A, A, A, ANIMALS, BAR, BAT, DAN, DROOP, I, I, IN, IN, IS, IT, NET, OR, POOR, SAW, SLAM, TEN, WAS

What are the sentences and what do they have in common?

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Answer

The three sentences are as follows.

WAS IT A BAR OR A BAT I SAW?
TEN ANIMALS I SLAM IN A NET.
POOR DAN IS IN A DROOP.

The common factor? All are palindromes.
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Comments

froghop833 May 16, 2004	Hooray I finally figured one of the "difficult" teasers out! Nice idea!
jimbo May 17, 2004	Nice combination of ideas. Haven't seen those palindromes beofre.
jmcleod Jul 15, 2004	That was a great teaser. I would like to see more like that.
vbfreak55 Jul 17, 2004	way too hard for me!
dalt88 Feb 27, 2005	to hard
DummyisDumb Mar 01, 2005	DAM'N!!!! H-A-R-D D-R A-H
exterminator Mar 20, 2005	n teaser!!!!!! i bet einstien couldnt figure it out.
bigSWAFF_69_ Mar 25, 2005	WOOOOOOOOOOOO PHUHCN WOOOOOOOOOOOO I GOT A HARD ONE WOOOOOOOOOOOO PHUHCN WOOOOOOOOOOOOO YAY
darthforman May 18, 2005
junk_kid Jun 03, 2005	hard but very fun
SummerStorm Jun 23, 2005	Very difficult. Nice work!
katjojo Mar 14, 2008	Too haard for me.
Meganan Mar 14, 2008	Should have a very hard rating I coildn't figure it out but that didn't make it less fun.
bradon182001 Mar 14, 2008	Very hard. Too much for me to handle at 70 am. Will be interested to see how many have the same reaction. Thanks for posting this mind scrambling teaser.
builder Mar 14, 2008	Wow! It took me a minute to even figure out what kind of hint racecar was.
bookwrmKP Mar 14, 2008	2HARD4ME!!!!!!!!!! nice teaser, i guess though
jabdr Mar 14, 2008	Way over my head...and the hint only confused me more I spent a long time trying to make sensible sentences as opposed to palindromic (?) phrases BUT - the brilliance to come up with something like this is incredible.
Marianogf777 Mar 14, 2008	Great Teaser!!!!! A bit hard, but so much the better cuz last teasers were increasingly simple.
auntiesis Mar 14, 2008	Too hard for me. Tried to use racecar as the thing they had in common, and got nowhere.
Trishgal Mar 14, 2008	My goodness I have a headache...and still never figured it out though it was good it was a bit hard
mondayschild59 Mar 14, 2008	I started out slow but finished it in the end. All three right this time. Thanks for the teaser. Monday~
zaya Mar 17, 2008	No idea where to start on this one