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This word has 10 letters namely
1234567890
1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle
What is the word?
1234567890
1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle
What is the word?
Answer
GENERATION1234 carries heredity - gene
456 - is a period of time - era
567- is a pest - rat
890 is a charged particle - ion
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Clever! You stumped me on rat Good Job!
I Love It!!!
That was good! I didn't get it.
a little difficult but good!
I did not get it but it was a good one
Very good!! Stumped me too!!
i didnt get it but it was very clever
That was awesome! I got it right!
tnx guys this was my first teaser that was accepted. tnx for the very nice comments
easy and fun
I got it...no idea why....the only change I would make would be the title...something like "Talkin' about my...", but that would probably make it too easy....LOL at least for those have a clue why I suggested that title....
Great teaser! It was a little easy if you do crosswords a lot, but very cleverly done.
I got it easy, but the puzzle is so cleverly done. Good job
Great Job! Loved this one.
Great Job! Loved this one.
good one
Very nice!
Hello:
Altough this teaser was beyond my IQ, I rate it handsome. Enjoy your sunday, quack - quack
Altough this teaser was beyond my IQ, I rate it handsome. Enjoy your sunday, quack - quack
Great teaser but it is inaccurate. According to your answer, the word is 'generarations' Great teaser anyway though. Keep them up!
Very good i got this one first try.
Very easy but very good
i thought the pest was a fly
Jul 31, 2005
Riddlerman look at the numbers again. It isn't generaration because if you look it says "456" is a period of time and "567" is a pest watch the numbers
WHOA!!! That was a toughy...
That was really easy, but I still loved it.
Gosh . . . this one was tough. The only hard part for me was finding words that matched with the repeat #s and all that stuff . . .
I should've goten this... I'm in a Humanbiology course in college this semester, but I'm getting a D- so that could be why.
great one
CLEVER!
Jul 31, 2005
I love it!!! It was a lot of fun to do.
very easy but fun to figure out...nice!!
Very clever! I lucked out and guessed right the first time! Enjoyed it immensely!
very good, but I thought I was going to have to make a word from the letters, not from the words.
cute
OKAY..... whatever i get it but you are wayyyyyyyyyyy... toooo.... smart!!! we study that in class but way to complicated!!!!!
That was fun! I didn't get it til I read it a second time, but then I got it right away! Great job!
CLEVER BUT EASY
Nice one!
Clever and smart...
1234-GENE , 567-RAT , 890-ION. The first four and last three were simple. Had i known that a rat can also be considered period of time. It would have been no problem..................
I alrewady read it and i still couldn't remember it!
My brain couldn't get it. But I love it, good job.
good one...
Difficult, and i (stupid me) didn't get it. How does that work? Im sure it was a very good riddle tho.
Jul 31, 2005
Really good, but easy until the last three letters, probably because it isn't linked to another word.
whoa whew
sssswwwweeeeettttt!! That was awesome!! I soooo luved that one!!
This one is great! I would like to see more like this. It really made me think.
EVERYONE SEEMS TO THINK THIS WAS EASY! I THOUGH IT WAS PRETTY DIFFICULT!
i thought it was easy and fun
This teaser was quite fun.
good job. That was very hard, but very crafty. I must say, touche (little mark above the e)
EXTREMELY EASY; but also extremely fun. Enjoyed it. THANKS
Everyone else thinks that this was easy but I didn't get it. It was hard!
very easy, very cool.
That was a good one I would have never guessed.
Well done! I got it quickly, but it made me think a little. I liked the format. We need to see more of these...
Very cute. A bit on the easy side but, fun to think about and solve. Good one.
Very easy ,but I often enjoy just easy puzzles that are fus . yeah and I do the crosswords daily
smart and enjoyable
Gr8 teaser! very easy, but fun all the same.
This was a good way to end a good month of good teasers. Thanks.
Easy, but fun.
Woooow! That was good. Very enjoyable
A pest could be a BUG. The clue for RAT should have been something like VERMIN. Otherwise, pretty good teaser.
I found this very difficult. Was I the only one? Good teaser.
Nice one. Too much for before coffee, tho Didn't get it.
that was different. I liked it for a change. I got it too!
I'm always intrigued by the comments... and how we're all "wired" differently. What's easy and obvious for one, may be difficult or impossible for another... Most importantly, change the day, change the teaser, and the opposite is true! This one was easy and fun for me. Tomorrow I'll probably be on the other side! Thanks!
Good one, I got it! Yay!
Coach, what's wrong? you're usually so positive; if pest could've been bug, then what word would have been made with bug in that position? Its actually better for a teaser to have a clue that has more than one possible answer but only one answer that really WORKS!
Good teaser, thanks again!
Coach, what's wrong? you're usually so positive; if pest could've been bug, then what word would have been made with bug in that position? Its actually better for a teaser to have a clue that has more than one possible answer but only one answer that really WORKS!
Good teaser, thanks again!
easy peasy, loved it never get too many of the puzzles so this one was awesome for me!! put ant for # 3 BUT DIDNT NOTICE & STILL CAME UP WITH CORREC T ANSWER! GO FIGURE LOL
um...way too easy. im not usually great at them either.
I didn't realise that the words could overlap. The numbering scheme was funky!
I enjoy looking at words this way, fun and challenging.
i dont mean brag but I got it for 5 seconds!
I heart this one!
This one was easy for some of us older adults, but it does get everyone to think and spell, correctly! A Very unique and thought out teaser. Keep them coming!
Badger's right on - different strokes for different folks! Language is one of my favorite categories, so they usually come easily to me. Now LGIC is a different story!!!
I'm with you, iteachkids, this one was very easy for me, but I rarely get the logic teasers. That really is interesting how certain types of puzzles come easy and others are very difficult.
The "e" in gene and the "e" in era being one in the same threw me off. Just like the "r" in era and rat. Counting every letter makes 13, not 10. Did this not bother anyone else? I've never done this type teaser-are they usually like this?
At first, I thought that too, but check out the numbers. If number 4 is repeated in the next word, the letter is an overlap and not used again.
It' clever and easy but, you still have to work through it! Fun! Linda
I thought the pest was a " Fly" too..
WELL THEY ARE!!!!!!!
WELL THEY ARE!!!!!!!
Easy and fun
Wow....stupmed me!
Really cute, tricked me on the rat part!
Really cute, tricked me on the rat part!
Oooh... too tough for me. Nice teaser!
Quite a simple one for a crossword fan like me, but interesting all the same. Thanks for the nice clues!
Fun, pretty easy. More, more
Enjoyed it.
Fun and easy once I replaced "fly" for the pest with "rat"!
The overlap adn numbering scheme added a little challenge. Good job overall!
The overlap adn numbering scheme added a little challenge. Good job overall!
Got it this time. Still loved it.
Nice!
That's all I say.
Jul 31, 2006
BORING
I dont think it was very great, in fact i was dissapointed. i got the first three parts just as my first thought but then i disregarded them because i assumed that 1234567890 ment that each letter was different, so if 1234=gene then 2=4 so, yea.
I have to agree with Zealot. I'm not familiar with this type of puzzle so assumed my answer was wrong when two numbers ended up representing the same letter. But I was tired and guessed it anyway. Everyone says it's the right answer so there is something about the rules of this game I don't understand. I like the creativity that went into creating this teaser.
i found this teaser very fun but i thought it was hard. i got half of the clues but had to look at the answer. wonderful teaser. gets the little gray cells moving.
to both labs & utna... this is language not cryptography, and I thought the way it was written showed fairly clearly the numbering was relating to the position not the value of the letters. I actually found this really easy. I think "Talkin' about my..." would have been too easy as a clue.
What I'd like to see is a similar thing but with the letters scrambled. For instance 7645 being a rip (tear). Otherwise I had "Gene" straight away, "era" could have been "age", but I couldn't think of a pest which was "ge_". "Ion" was a bit of a stretch, but when you have "generat_ _ _" that limits the possibilities.
What I'd like to see is a similar thing but with the letters scrambled. For instance 7645 being a rip (tear). Otherwise I had "Gene" straight away, "era" could have been "age", but I couldn't think of a pest which was "ge_". "Ion" was a bit of a stretch, but when you have "generat_ _ _" that limits the possibilities.
I found that fun, and easy. I mean, I struggled with it, but then experienced the joy of realizing what it was, and then it was easy.
But yeah, I was a little slow while reading the clues, and the first one I got was ION (I'm a physicist, sue me). Then I went back and said, oh, hey, GENE! And then a time period starting with E... EON?
But then GENEON_ION didn't look like it was getting anywhere... so I thought more and came up with ERA ... but then I was screwed up by the numbers, and I was thinking I was looking for a three letter pest starting with A .... but GENERANTION made me reread the clue and I found the dirty RAT that was pestering me!
Fun! Fun! Fun!
Loved it. Had the wrog letters for 5 and 6 so had to re-work this one. But I had the answer so the re-work did't take long. Thanks. More please?
Really fun playing with letters! You could also have used ratio or ration. Great teaser!
Great teaser! Fun but good!!!
This one was really quite easy. For a moment I thought gene was wrong because of the 2 e's, but the rest of the answers proved that gene was correct. Nice one.
Good teaser. I didn't get it, could have used a clue because I didn't have one.
Very good,took me awhile to get this one.
Wow, got it instantly -- much faster and nore easily than usual. Must be the extra coffee I had this a.m. or else my brain's just working for a change. The last 3 letters had to be "ion", and then working backwards, the solution was a cinch.
I thought it was easy even though I didn't get "rat." Very fun!
I enjoyed it. Thanks.
I really liked this one! It took some thinking for me--I got ion first also, not because I'm a physicist, but an elementary school teacher. Then I got "gene" and I figured the letter before ion would be a t or an s and after that it was easy. Also, this teaser is so different from the other teasers of the day we've been having lately. Quite refreshing to have a change!
I got gene and ion because i tend to think scientifically. once you get that, you just try to think of a word beginning in gene and ending in ion....that's what made it easy for me. Good job though.
easy-peasy, but GREAT FUN!! Loved it! Thanks!!!
I totally agree with speedqueenkmw! I got all the clues correct except rat, but with using ant or any other 3 word pest it was still a 13 letter word. Nothing was said about running letters together or eliminating a letter so I do not think it was a good teaser to be so lacking in explanation.
I automatically assumed that the number was the position of the letter. It took me a minute to figure out that the pest was a rat - Even if it was fairly easy, it was Very enjoyable! Thanks for a good teaser!
I agree with Badger's comment from 2006, because today this one was simple for me.
Not sure where the difficulty in understanding he teaser is' I too just assumed that the numbers cooresponded to their placement in the word, The fact the writer made a point to not only state that there were 10 letters in the word, but to lay out the numbers to illustrate it. I enjoyed the teaser myself.
way too easy but it was a fun one.
Awesome!
Yay! Got this one!
Got it!
way too easy, but got a couple of cells working this morning!!
Fun & easy, thanks.
I just love these types of puzzles!
Well done!
I just love these types of puzzles!
Well done!
I couldn't get past my initial thought of 'era,' so stumped myself early on. I don't understand the multiple comments on being confused by the directions-they were clear and concise to me. I just wish I had persevered a little longer!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got this very quickly and did not find it very challenging.
Easy teasy. I like the teaser concept and format.
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