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Letter Juggle 4
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Eat - Fact
2. Fist - Spam
3. Ham - Smock
4. Tilde - Food
5. Sale - Cranking
1. Eat - Fact
2. Fist - Spam
3. Ham - Smock
4. Tilde - Food
5. Sale - Cranking
Hint
1. Accomplishment2. Twitch
3. Fake
4. Water terms
5. Position
Answer
1. Feat - Act2. Fit - Spasm
3. Sham - Mock
4. Tide - Flood
5. Scale - Ranking
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yay first comment. sorta hard.
at - facEt also works for #1.
@2big2fail: no it doesn't; at and facet don't have remotely similar definitions
Good Teaser, thanks
For #1 feat and act also works.A feat by anyone is an act by them as well
For #1 feat and act also works.A feat by anyone is an act by them as well
e.g. a feat of kindness is an act of kindness.
e.g. a feat of kindness is an act of kindness.
Haha got them all
It took a minute but I got them without the hint.
Well done, thanks for posting.
Takes too long to figure out. It is a good one if you have the time.
quite tactical..act and facet can go through for #1
Nope, perodavis, that won't work for #1, because "act" is not a synonym for "facet".
Enjoyable and just the right level of difficulty. Took no more than 5 minutes to solve.
Mmm SPAM
I liked this one - got all but 1. Should have tried a bit harder and longer! Have a great day!
Easy and fun. Doubt it took much time or thought for you to make it, but I did say fun, so I guess that is the point, right? No creation points though, hehe.
And, @kasiecom, suggesting the given answer as an alternate answer is not exactly a significant comment.
Enjoyed it! Thought it'd be one of the ones where they all wind up on the same side, so was tickled when I started 'seeing' the answers as they are-
@eighsee - actually these do take some time and thought, first to come up with the concept, then to go through a thesaurus looking at hundreds of synonyms to find a pair that can exchange a letter and still be words.
good teaser, wasn't quite sure about scale-ranking
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Woo Hoo! Me & my daughter LOVE these!
Fun & easy thanks!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got all of them very quickly. Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Brainglers.
This is wonderful! Quite solvable, but far from obvious. I would think coming up with these puzzles would be quite challenging, and these are terrific and entertaining. They are not just words that fit the pattern. Great.
Not sure I agree with all of these being synonyms, but I enjoyed it, nonetheless. Good teaser!
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