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Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
Fu (--) am
Ed (--) ar
Dit (--) urch
Ju (--) eam
Ran (--) ese
Divi (--) bt
Pi (--) upt
Dro (--) rse
Tr (--) aze
Bud (--) nder
Fu (--) am
Ed (--) ar
Dit (--) urch
Ju (--) eam
Ran (--) ese
Divi (--) bt
Pi (--) upt
Dro (--) rse
Tr (--) aze
Bud (--) nder
Answer
Fuse - seamEdge - gear
Ditch - church
Just - steam
Range - geese
Divide - debt
Pier - erupt
Drove - verse
Tram - amaze
Budge - gender
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Another fun one Jazz! A couple of those were a little challenging, but fun to figure out. One of the first of yours I've gotten without any hints!
Thanks teddy...I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Nice brain exercise for 1 AM! Good job!
GREAT JOB! THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN.
HOW DO YOU KEEP COMING UP SUCH STIMULATING TEASERS?
YOU MUST HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON YOUR HANDS YOU ARE JUST PLAIN GOOD AT WRITING?
HOW DO YOU KEEP COMING UP SUCH STIMULATING TEASERS?
YOU MUST HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON YOUR HANDS YOU ARE JUST PLAIN GOOD AT WRITING?
Excellent! That was fun!!
this was fun jazz.
got em all.. ok i had to think a bit ... now i can goto bed satisfied
Evil-Genie-Ass
got em all.. ok i had to think a bit ... now i can goto bed satisfied
Evil-Genie-Ass
Thanks guys. Much appreciated!
IMURRAY: Thank you for your positive comments. They are appreciated too. I have the same amount of time as you...24 hours...for me, Braingle is a hobby and so, enjoy writing teasers (some good - some not so good).
IMURRAY: Thank you for your positive comments. They are appreciated too. I have the same amount of time as you...24 hours...for me, Braingle is a hobby and so, enjoy writing teasers (some good - some not so good).
Nice easy one...My brain is still intact !!!
good one jazz,
However, I got
RANCH CHEESE is that ok??
have a gr8 day, later gators, kitty
However, I got
RANCH CHEESE is that ok??
have a gr8 day, later gators, kitty
Good teaser. I didn't get them all, but enjoyed trying. Thanks for submitting it.
Easy for me JAZZ,but still interesting ! give you a 6.5 on that one.
Great teaser Jazz. I struggled on some, though I'm usually quick on word teasers. Thanks for making me work
Great teaser, I love the ones that are word knowledge based. I got FUEL and ELAM (part of babylon/iran) for the first one. I'm so glad Lmurray liked this one...so it seems we can please 'all the people some of the time' and 'some of the people all of the time'.
i saw this teaser before i logged in n i wondered if jazz wrote it. (at least i got that right.) got 5/5. keep em coming. this is one for the favs.
Kitty I don't think ranch-cheese works as you need an extra 'e' or you would get:
ran|ch - ch|ese
ran|ge - ge|ese
Hope that makes sense, nice teaser.
ran|ch - ch|ese
ran|ge - ge|ese
Hope that makes sense, nice teaser.
Jazz, as usual you have provided us with a very good teaser. Thank you . It's like having our own personal puzzle-maker.
I got most of them (yay me!), but I got ranch/cheese for some strange reason. lol I also can't believe I couldn't figure out budge/gender, even though the second of the 2 had been on my mind for a long time. lol
I appreciated the greater number of words to work on. It's funner with a lot to solve rather than just 4 or 5.
that was f der the circumstanc pecially for language people some of those words were pretty ea stemattically cool good ol' braingle
That was Cool. Got 6 of em'.
Those really make you think.
Good Job. Only wish I'd had more time to spend on it. Might have done better.
Fun TGIF
Those really make you think.
Good Job. Only wish I'd had more time to spend on it. Might have done better.
Fun TGIF
It was fun. Thanks a lot .for some reason on the last one I got budda/dander would that work?
i think it's buddHa not budda..
nice teaser.....
nice teaser.....
Jazz, I agree with one of the above posters. We have our own puzzle maker, and he certainly is a good one. These are so much fun even Imurray likes them. Good job.
Very enjoyable, good work!
Another great one for Jazz!
This was fun. Took some time to think them through.
For those who got "ranch/cheese" look closer, there's only one 'e' not 2 (ese not eese).
Keep these coming!
For those who got "ranch/cheese" look closer, there's only one 'e' not 2 (ese not eese).
Keep these coming!
Thanks alot for the nice comments. I do appreciate them. I'm not sure about the 'personal puzzlemaker' , but it's nice to know I giving some of you a brighter day.
Yikes!! I've never been very good at these. But I always love trying! You're so good at making these though. Nice job!
Just the right balance of difficulty and fun. Great job. Thanks.
I dont get it
While working on this, I also considered cheese, but noticed the missing 'e' ... and budda, but knew it started with 'bh'. I think there were a few more that 'almost' worked... I was starting to wonder if there were errors in the teaser and maybe I was actually right! Haha, but no, of course not, and I figured them out eventually. And it was fun! I like it when I have to work at the teaser a bit, and I especially like it when I can get it after doing so.
I really like these and find them challenging.
I'm ashamed of myself
I quit before I got them all!
Thanks for a good one, jazz!
I'm ashamed of myself
I quit before I got them all!
Thanks for a good one, jazz!
Fun...didn't quite get them all but very enjoyable!
Last one...How 'bout budDA and DAnder
Doh! Buddha has an "h" in it. NM
Excellent - I like these a lot Cheers.
This was really fun! I got them all except #5 in spite of trying many words on both ends. After I relunctantly gave up and checked the answer I thought, "Why didn't I think of that?" Thanks for a good teaser!
wow..that was good.. i was confused by the FU_ _ .. my simple mind got stuck on one word and i couldnt budge.. any fellow simple minds out there will know the simple word i was stuck on... i got bout half of the other ones, and genuinely enjoyed it THANKS!!
Very good. It just took too much time on some because it is late and my eyes are closing, but kept at it until the last two. Yawn!
Fairly easy, which was good for my brain today.
Medium challenge, maximum fun!
Ran(ch)cheese seems to me an acceptable answer tro #5. As for the person who suggested Bud(da)nder, the name is not spelled "Budda," but "Buddha".
Fun and easy teaser - got all of them right away. As for the words "range" and "geese", "ranch" and "cheese" is not an acceptable answer. The instructions clearly state you can only insert 2 letters in the blank. In order to get "cheese", you would have to insert "che". This was also noted several years back by a commenter.
I'll admit, I was too lazy to do this one, but it is a nice concept for a teaser. Only reason that I'm actually commenting is curiosity over the title... I don't get it. "Modern" Words? Why modern?
This was fun! I should've thought harder on Ran (--) ese...I was sure it was Ranch/Cheese...and figured the puzzle had a typo.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I wondered if "ckam" was a word.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got them all fairly quickly in 2016 and again this time.
That was fun; I love solving these, thanks Jazz!
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