Braingle: 'What Word 5' Brain Teaser

What Word 5

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Puzzle ID:	#34948
Fun:	(3.06)
Difficulty:	(1.49)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	grungy49

I have 7 letters.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7

Letters 1-2-6-3-5-4-7 mean the thickness of something.
Letters 7-2-4-5 mean a legendary large, hairy creature that is said to inhabit the Himalayas.
Letters 7-2-3 mean something that is said to show approval, which you wouldn't be saying if you were trying to 1-2-6-7 something.
Letters 4-5-2-1 mean that everything is equal.

The whole word means a predetermined course of events.

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Comments

cuteandditzy Jan 20, 2007	Took me a few minutes. I liked it alot. Great job!
Sand-Storm Jan 26, 2007	Ditto of above message
mosca Jun 18, 2007	Really fun quiz. Liked the wordplay!
J-Mac May 19, 2009	First word - did you mean DENSITY for thickness? I don't get DESTINY there. Jim
J-Mac May 19, 2009	Whoops - seeing double, methinks! Jim
pengzoid May 19, 2009	good teaser, i like the ones i can get.
elentir May 19, 2009	I know this is nitpicking a little - but the thickness of something is not an accurate definition for density. A 2" sheet of styrofoam is much thicker than a 1/2" sheet of steel, but the steel is far denser.
4princesses May 19, 2009	Good point to the above comment. I enjoyed doing this, but it was easy with the clue about the entire word. Got that right away!
builder May 19, 2009	elentir, you are right , but outside of that box is the density or thickness of a liquid. Ez quiz Took more time to read it than solve it
elentir May 19, 2009	I don't think it even holds for liquids. From what I understand, and I may be wrong in this assumption, thickness equates to viscosity in liquids. If so, honey is far thicker than mercury. And again, mercury is far denser.
Mill89 May 19, 2009	elintir is correct. Viscosity is resistance to flow, or thickness, of a liquid. Density is, literally, mass/volume. It could very loosely be defined as the how heavy something is, but it's a bit of a stretch to equate it to thickness. Still, it was a fun quiz.
doehead May 19, 2009	Are we discussing the teaser or the density of some peoples brains?
kwelchans May 19, 2009	I liked this one. The density thing is a little nitpicky.
tonedog May 19, 2009	I don't think the density thing is nitpicky. I think that especially as it was the first clue and I am probably not the only one who went about it by trying to solve each clue in order, that it would have been nice if the clue wasn't outright wrong. As several people have pointed out the definition of density is not in any way a means of describing the thickness of something. As such without the last clue I would have never gotten this one, b/c I would have never considered "density" as a possible answer to the first clue.
bradon182001 May 19, 2009	I agree, but it is still a valid point to solving the teaser correctly. Good job, nonetheless. Thanks for posting.
auntiesis May 19, 2009	I guess I went about it all wrong. I got Yeti first, then yes, that helped me get deny, and from there I had it made. I got it right, I enjoyed it.
wordmama May 19, 2009	I don't think there was a wrong way to go about solving this. Although yeti probably would've gotten me there, taking longer, I went straight to the last word, destiny, and just fit the others in to check them. Fun & easy. Thanks for contributing.
Jimmymo May 19, 2009	EZ PZ. Fun though!!
kwelchans May 19, 2009	I enjoyed this so much I went back and did all your other "What Word" teasers. Loved them all!
j279 May 19, 2009	I thought this was a fun teaser and I enjoyed doing it, but I agree with what has been said about density NOT being the thickness of something. Density is the mass divided by the volume... how is that a thickness???
kwelchans May 19, 2009	From Roget's Thesaurus: density noun The quality, condition, or degree of being thick: compactness, solidity, thickness. See thick
j279 May 19, 2009	Well, I dealt with taking density measurements and analyzing density at my last job, and I have never heard of it meaning the same thing as thinkness...
j279 May 19, 2009	oops, I meant "thickness", not "thinkness".
FatHead May 19, 2009	That was way too easy! At least with that last clue.
Bastet May 19, 2009	Very easy, but a lot of fun. It reminded me a little of a cryptogram, but with numbers instead of letters.
nogoodnames May 20, 2009	I thought the last one was same.
Babe May 19, 2012	You people are way to smart for me. I had no idea what we were supposed to do with those numbersa, but then I am the oldest here and out of the loop.
tripleteam5 May 19, 2012	good puzzle due to unique way to solve.. and this to naysayers LOL
thecatladycac May 19, 2012	I came up with the word "density" right away, and solved the rest in short order. It didn't even dawn on me that density might not accurately fit the clue, until I read the other comments - then I had to think back to my high-school physics class (well over 50 years ago) and I guess they are probably right. I wonder why that was the first word that popped into my head? I found the teaser easy, but since I love word games, also found it interesting and unique. - I give it 5 stars!!
iggy39 May 19, 2012	Thought it was fun and had no problem solving it at all. I liked it.
dsjt May 21, 2012	RE: DENSITY I believe the Thesaurus reference of Density being equivalent to thickness is referring to the definition of density as a measure of ones mental capacity. Not a physical measurement of an object. i.e. "THICK AS A BRICK"