Braingle: 'Super Scrabble' Brain Teaser

Super Scrabble

Puzzle ID:	#28746
Fun:	(2.83)
Difficulty:	(3)
Category:	Other
Submitted By:	cnmne

Super Scrabble is a game for eight players. Two boards are used, and the two sets of tiles are combined. The players, in turn, can play on either of the boards. To determine the order of play, each player draws a tile. Howard drew "T", Betty drew "J", Walter drew "H", Lily drew "O", Fred drew "B", Nancy drew "F", and Jason drew "M". After drawing her letter, Alice asked, "Can anyone logically figure out what letter I drew?" After a few moments, Jason replied, "I know what letter you drew." He was correct. What letter did Alice draw? How did Jason know?

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Comments

sweetmama Feb 22, 2006	Hey that was a good one. I didn't get it, but I liked it. Thanks for the teaser!
mitzimesser Feb 22, 2006	I never would have noticed that in a million years. lol
Vigo95 Feb 22, 2006	that was great !!!!!!!!!!! i really liked that . i didn't get it , but i really liked it !
shortie Feb 22, 2006	This teaser was kool
The_best Feb 24, 2006	A bit too tough on the brain. Don't mind me just collecting points.
bookworm91 Oct 28, 2007	Very cool! I didn't get it, but it was most interesting. Good work!
mondayschild59 Oct 28, 2007	I'll agree with the majority, It was a great teaser, even though I didn't get it right. Thanks for posting. Monday~
fishgirlvu Oct 28, 2007	Yikes! That was tricky. I was way off.
moriarty94 Oct 28, 2007	That was the best of them all Great teaser. Nice use of extraneous information.
TotallyxRandom Oct 28, 2007	Wow, that was hard! But cool, I never would have thought of that!
Cubano Oct 28, 2007	Wouldn't it be a random letter?
rameherhard Oct 28, 2007
builder Oct 28, 2007	Yes Cubano it would be a random letter, but after she drew it she noticed that it was "logical" thus the S. Good job cnmne, way fun, Sunday morning was a good time for them to post this time consuming challenge.
cheesepie Oct 28, 2007	Favorited! I liked this one a lot, even though I didn't get.
doehead Oct 28, 2007	Tough one. Stumped me.
gaylewolf Oct 28, 2007	I would love to see if anyone DID get it - great teaser! Thanks!
Louie_da_fish Oct 28, 2007	yeah, I never came close on this one, glad to see I'm not alone
2ndhandrose Oct 28, 2007	Didn't get it , don't understand it. Do you mean to say that the players got to pick their letters while the letteres were face up. Rules were Vague I just don't get it ????????????? This was for me, a Weird Teaser.
Darkmisfortune Oct 28, 2007	This wasn't very sensical. If the boy had not seen the other cards that others drew he would not know that they had drawn the letter that could replace the first letter in their name to make a word. Logical could mean just about anything in this situation...
bradon182001 Oct 28, 2007	Ditto doehead. Really tough one.
Trishgal Oct 28, 2007	Tough.... but i enjoyed it THX
bookworm91 Oct 28, 2007	When you draw to see who goes first, you look at everyone's tiles. So they would have known what each other had. Hope that clears it up for those of you who are confused. ;) This one goes on my faves!
jzthebomb Oct 28, 2007	did not get it but great
lukeschett Oct 28, 2007	Whoa. That was hard.
974999gec Oct 28, 2007	Stumped me, but nice teaser
dreamlvr1432 Oct 28, 2007	good one. I couldn't even come close.
4demo Oct 28, 2007	I actually got it in less than 10 seconds! I guess once you do enough teasers, you do find a "pattern" or "trick" to the reasoning behind them. Great teaser!
rhnnp Oct 28, 2007	that one was tough but I thought it was good keep um coming
katjojo Oct 28, 2007	Good one!!
sayfaye Oct 28, 2007	Yes, I got it, too. And very quickly. Just a fluk, I guess.
luckylefty Oct 28, 2007	Clever! I completely missed that
Castle Oct 28, 2007	I wouldn't call that "logic", I'd call that a pattern. There would be no way to logically deduce which tile Alice had drawn.
composer Oct 28, 2007	Very clever (just like cnmne=sea anemone is clever...). And yes, there is logic to it.
fishhooky Oct 28, 2007	I agree with Castle, it is misleading to say the solution is logical.
tonedog Oct 28, 2007	I would actually take it a step further and say that to say it was "logical" is wrong. Pattern recognition and logic are two very different things. The only logical solution that I could come up with was that she drew an "A". I figured that b/c the only info you would have if she didn't show the tile is what other people drew and whether or not she goes first (assuming as is normal in most games that you draw to see who goes first and then the order of play is determined by seating position). Based on that info and the fact that she said that there was a logically deducible solution, the only tile she could have drawn was an "A" so she would go before the person with the "B"
Yorkshire-Boy Oct 29, 2007	It would be a logical deduction to recognise the pattern structure. once recognised, it then becomes a valid answer to the question of 'can anyone answer the question of what letter I got' (from Alice) and the obvious assumption is that everyone elses letters have been revealed.
tonedog Oct 29, 2007	It would be a logical deduction if someone was purposefully assigning letters but not when they are randomly drawn.
auntiesis Nov 15, 2010	Very tricky, did not get it.
mepapa Nov 15, 2010	I know that there are more than one of each letter in the game, so even though I got the reasoning, I got the wrong word. My word was Malice
dodgerh8ter Nov 15, 2010	I guess one mans logic is another mans ???? Based on your logic, Alice may have also drawn a blank. (lice)