Braingle: 'Next Word' Brain Teaser

Next Word

Series teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.

Puzzle ID:	#28416
Fun:	(2.84)
Difficulty:	(1.49)
Category:	Series
Submitted By:	jessjspieks

What word is missing?
begin inch chapel elastic ==?== cellar arisen end

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Last 2 letters
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wizofaus Feb 02, 2006	Or induce, invoice, injustice, interface...
jessjspieks Feb 02, 2006	No, wizo, the letters are ic not in. Nice thought though
jajed1127 Feb 02, 2006	What about icicle or icy?
jessjspieks Feb 02, 2006	yeah, anything along those lines...ice was the first one i thought of and the shortest, so i figured it could be any form of
redraptor50 Feb 03, 2006	WELL DONE, liked it a lot
boodler Feb 03, 2006	My first thought was icicle, then, like the guy who stayed up all night wondering where the sun had gone to, it dawned on me!
jessjspieks Feb 03, 2006	actually, it couldn't be icicle because the next word starts with ce.....silly me
stargal305 Feb 03, 2006	I liked this one alot! good one!
pawz73 Feb 04, 2006	I thought that, even though it said "word", there were supposed to be two words in between because of the double sets of dashes, so I'm thinking icon & once. Then I read it over again & realized you were only asking for one word. Yes, ice was the first word that came to mind. Good one.
RedAngle65 Feb 11, 2006	well done!!!!!!!!!!!! RedAngel
jessjspieks Feb 11, 2006	Sorry for any confusion Pawz , should have clarified that a bit better. Sounds like you figured it out anyway with another answer though. Way to go!!
zonahobo Feb 12, 2006	That was pretty neat and a cool refreshing end to puzzeling on Braingle today .. Good one!
Neferjeane Mar 13, 2006	I got it immediately! Terrific teaser.
GebbieRose Jun 17, 2006	That was a clever one! Nice job!
eggface Mar 07, 2009	I thought it was a word with five letters, the instructions weren't very clear!
pcledrew Mar 07, 2009	Actually, in every word combination other than this one it was the last two letters of the word prior to given word 'x' at the beginning of the next word, thus the word must be ice, no other word has ic at its beginning and ce at its end to my knowledge.
Provlear Mar 07, 2009	I needed the hint, and though I got ice immediately, I thought there ahd to be more. yet I still can't think of any begins with "ic" nds with "ce" words... if ice is the only answer, then this is superbly done.
doehead Mar 07, 2009	Very very easy!!!
crazy10man Mar 07, 2009	Hate to rain on your parade, but according to your rules, the correct word would be icce, not ice -- I figured it was ice though.
bookworm91 Mar 07, 2009	@ crazy10man: I hate to rain on YOUR parade, but the teaser is correct. elastIC iCE cellar - fits the pattern. Very clever! I usually avoid language teasers because, well, I suck at them. But I enjoyed this one (though I didn't get it), and maybe I'll start trying out the language category more often.
bookworm91 Mar 07, 2009	Apologize for the double post, but I just realized this is in the Series category... which I also normally avoid for the reason mentioned above.
auntiesis Mar 07, 2009	I found it very easy, but I thought I was wrong because ice only has 3 letters and there seemed to be 4 dashes plus the question mark. Since I couldn't come up with a word of 5 letters or more, I figured ice was correct. Slightly confusing, but a good one. Thank You.
gaylewolf Mar 07, 2009	I loved it! Just enough thinking involved! I'd like to see more along this line!
bluefever101 Mar 07, 2009	I had my face an inch away from the screen and I figured it out! YAY! YAY ME! HEHEHE!
avonma Mar 07, 2009	The others used 2 letters from each word, so I gave up. I thought of ice, but that seemed too short. (I always make things too complicated!)
teri12265 Mar 07, 2009	I thought we needed 2 words, so I came up with icicle and lettuce.
davidrools Mar 07, 2012	Very good teaser. I was skeptical about "ice" being the answer, because it shares the "c," but the last word, "end" would have to share the "n" if the pattern continued (though I can't think of any words that start with "nd")
Rainbownerd Mar 07, 2012	hard but fun