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What is special about these four words?
what, hole, ales, test
what, hole, ales, test
Hint
This wouldn't work if the words were listed in a different order.Answer
If you take each corresponding letter from each word, the same words are formed again:What Hole Ales Test
wHat hOle aLes tEst
whAt hoLe alEs teSt
whaT holE aleS tesT
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Wow! That's a great one.
thanks! when i was thinking of it, the idea was to have the four words, and then take the first, second, third... letter of each to make four OTHER words, but they turned out to be the same words!! weird hey?!
What a great first teaser for you! Now you've got the highest average popularity on the whole site!
I was really impressed when I saw this in the editors section. Great teaser
Great Teaser!
That was pretty easy, but it must have been harder thinking of all the words Good Job!
Great one. Caught me completley off guard. Took me forever and I still couldn't get it.
what, hole, ales, test
You can also (almost) make words out of the first letter and the other words. What+hole (W+hole)=Whole. Hole+ales (H+ales) = Hales. Ales+test (A+test)= Atest (not quite attest) lol
You can also (almost) make words out of the first letter and the other words. What+hole (W+hole)=Whole. Hole+ales (H+ales) = Hales. Ales+test (A+test)= Atest (not quite attest) lol
If you take the first letter of every word and pair them and the second letter of every word and the third letter of every word and the last letter of every word and pair them up with each other then you will get the same words.
I think that this brain teser was a little 2 easy.
I liked this teaser A LOT
I was stumped on this one until I read the hint, honestly, very nice one
Wow! That was really really cool. It was so clever. Excellent
Nice i liked that one
That is so weird
Cool, man!!!!
Cool, man!!!!
WOW!! Good Teaser, I enjoyed this one!!
I thought it was "what", oh well maybe next time..
Fun teaser I definately needed the hint.
Fun teaser I definately needed the hint.
now that was good!!! i got it.
now that was good!!! i got it.
Better than good
I got it immediately Amazing set of words...kind of spooky actually....love it
I actually liked this one, I'm Angelli and I am kinda new here, can I join in?
harder pls...
Easy one but fun. Good job.
Great one! Clever!
I got it from d hint, yeah!!!!
I could not figure out what the heck you were doing. When I saw the answer I was like what the heck I get it now. good one.
I could not figure out what the heck you were doing. When I saw the answer I was like what the heck I get it now. good one.
very clever!
way simple...but clever. someone should try a five or six letter word with that.
Very good!
I did it this way:
what
hole
ales
test
what
hole
ales
test
Excellent!!
Dang! Fooled again! That was great!! Going into the favorites bin
Good Job, Well done. I got it!!
clevvahhhh. i like it.
Too tough for me, but I enjoyed finding out the answer!
Wow... That must've been the best teaser of the day yet! And I got it! WOOHOO!!!
very ingenious do more
very cool, it was easy if you think about it ... MORE PLEASE!
Eureka!!!
WHAT glory HOLE is this?!
We're rich, me boys!
Let's go to the fleshpots and enjoy the cabaret girls, wine whiskey and ALES!!
I can't think of anything else to do with all the gold.
Have I failed the TEST?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. This was such a lame-o braingle
WHAT glory HOLE is this?!
We're rich, me boys!
Let's go to the fleshpots and enjoy the cabaret girls, wine whiskey and ALES!!
I can't think of anything else to do with all the gold.
Have I failed the TEST?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. This was such a lame-o braingle
Lame, my big toe. It was BRILLIANT!
For those that didn't get my answer: Read the words vertically.
Exstremely clever, and in my faves.
I regret to say I did not figure it out
I regret to say I did not figure it out
very nice!! did u make that up??? if u did... im looking foward to more of ur teasers!!!
Great job, really loved this teaser. I did not get it though
wow! great one keep up the good work. WOW! im impressed
Good one! I liked it a lot!
Good job! I neva woulda got it! but thats just me...
I just thouht It was WHAT but I didnt think about the other words! Good one!
That's a great one!!! I'm gonna e-mail this to my friends!!!
i liked it... ..but... ...i didnt get it
good teaser though
good teaser though
Cool
That was pretty sweet.
One of the best teasers I have ever seen. And I GOT IT , wow. Great job Will be added to my favorites
One of the best teasers I have ever seen. And I GOT IT , wow. Great job Will be added to my favorites
Teaser of the day!
Great job, I added it to my favorites.
Great job, I added it to my favorites.
Easy but fun.
wow great one very clever
that is so cool
zzzzzzzz!!!!
wow...im speechless...
wow! that's Nifty!
Danced all around the answer, looking for something along those lines but still missed this one. I try to limit my time on language teasers. This is one of those on which I wish I had taken a bit more time. Good.
cool....zzzzzzzh
this was great! I was somewhere along the lines of the answer but I think i was thinking a little "too" hard... loved the teaser though...definitely going into lmy fav's...keep up the good work!
How serendipitous!
Good One indeed!
cool.
Love it!
Very well done, good job!
Sadly...*sniff*...I didn't get it...
i loved this one!! it is one of my firsts, but i loved it
if guys think this is easy than i must be relly bad at teasers or w/e this was but neways great job!!!!! it was awesome i just look at the answer cause i was nevah gonna get it
Yay! I actually got it!! That was good.
Excellent teaser!
That was an excellent teaser. Keep that brain workin' so you can come up with some more of those.
i actually got it! in like less than a minute haha
Good one. I got it right after I clicked on 'answer', but right before I looked at it...
I got lucky and saw it as a word square right off. Perhaps because we've had so many word square anagrams as TOTD recently! Always fascinating. I'm curious to see how many more get it this time, than three years ago. Thanks for submitting!
realy fun hint made it easy with out it i would never have gotten it
Good one. I wonder how many more words you could do that with. Hmmmm....
I got it before looking at the hint, but the hint confirmed my decision.We've had so many tricky ones lately, I sometimes doubt my first impressions. Thanks for the great teaser.
Clever teaser.
Oct 05, 2006
ok, ok. it's acceptable, but where did you come up with "ales"? Come on, a lot of people can come up with this "teaser".
For some reason, I saw the answer right away - but it was a fun and clever teaser.
Very clever, I got the `what` but couldn`t see the rest, WHAT a silly goose lol
I got the first word, but didn't realise that the other three wer also in positions 2-3-4-. Good one.
I was thinking slightly differently.
They form a "word square"!
They form a "word square"!
never had heard of a word square
maybe I'll get the next one
maybe I'll get the next one
So I like that one cuz it was simple and easy, not too hard. Or anything and it didn't waist my time like some of thee others that are fricken mailed t me!!!! Oh well have to go.
-Schmeldy9
-Schmeldy9
humm.....thats interesting.....good oone
That was a hard one! Not really good at word anagrams. Didn't get it at all. Not even with the hint!
It does make you wonder... GeniusBoy's overall score is zero. What's up with that? Not the first time I've seen this.
Is he even getting our comments or pithy remarks, or has he long since left Braingle? Genius Boy, are you out there?
Is he even getting our comments or pithy remarks, or has he long since left Braingle? Genius Boy, are you out there?
Oct 05, 2006
That was a great one.
hey!! Yes i am out here still!! just have been quite dormant on this site for.. erm.. a couple of years! hehe.. thanks for all your comments though, and hopefully ill be able to start being more active on the site soon! take care all
Nice!
lol sweeto
Did not get it BUT it was fun trying
wow good one i liked it alot i couldnt guess it but i still liked it i think most of these teasers are to smart for me but i still like it!
i am so bored so resond to this comment!!!!!!!!! ok? thanks bye!
Simple and fun, I like it
Very Cool~I liked this! And Jaxie just go away, you can't even SPELL Braingle! LOL!
How nice! I was trying to interchange one letter from any one pair of the given words and make new words, but this didnt work out well in all cases. This is a fine word square in a slightly different form and so put me off.
wow
anyone who thinks this teaser is easy is crazy. That teaser was incredible! I added it to my favorites. I could never come up with someting like that
Jaxie,since you're on this site,then I guess you're one of us now,huh? Welcome from all of us nerds!
Isn't the answer some kind of word square?? I liked it!
Very fun. I'd suggest one small improvement: say "What's special about **this set of** four words (without the asterisks). I think that'd be slightly clearer than the way it's worded now.
I'm planning on showing this to the students in my high school math class, where we're starting to study matrices. I bet they'll like it.
What's it called when you have a square of words like that? I know it has a certain name ...
Thanks again.
Jim G.
I'm planning on showing this to the students in my high school math class, where we're starting to study matrices. I bet they'll like it.
What's it called when you have a square of words like that? I know it has a certain name ...
Thanks again.
Jim G.
Very nice job and I sure wasn't expecting a word square, but enjoyed it anyway. More please.
I was sure I was stumped... clicked the answer link in the word of the day email, and while the page was loading I glanced down at where I had written my notes, to see if any last minute inspirations came to me.... and aha! I had written them like this:
what
hole
ales
test
and I saw WHAT down the first column! and HOLE down the second! then ALES and TEST! And I was like, wow, it's a word square, cool, and I got it! (Much like neomajic did, I presume.)
Before I got it, all I could think of was: "let's test what hole is for ales!" (because it would be a great excuse to open a beer and pour some down my throat!) (and because I didn't see the hint until after I got the answer)
what
hole
ales
test
and I saw WHAT down the first column! and HOLE down the second! then ALES and TEST! And I was like, wow, it's a word square, cool, and I got it! (Much like neomajic did, I presume.)
Before I got it, all I could think of was: "let's test what hole is for ales!" (because it would be a great excuse to open a beer and pour some down my throat!) (and because I didn't see the hint until after I got the answer)
got it without the hint
Very well written. I would have never thought of that.
awesome!!!
thats pretty neat
Wow, that's cool!
that was really cool
Good one! Thanks.
You can also put it in a 4x4 square, but it's basically the same thing.
WHAT
HOLE
ALES
TEST
Reading across or down gets you the same 4 words.
WHAT
HOLE
ALES
TEST
Reading across or down gets you the same 4 words.
I thought it was on the easy side.But it was interesting.
I couldn't get it till I read the hint. That gave it away right away. I thought it was a good teaser!
I used to love doing word squares, so I got it right away. Great job.
NICE!
It WAS easy, but fun! I don't know how you made it up, but it works, and that's neat!
AWESOME TEASER!!!! i luvd it!!!! i did't get it, but i feel insanely happy right now, so it must have been a good one. def going into my faves!!
AWESOME
It's good to see a clue, its answer in a common vein. Everyone seems to understand the clue and the answer. I have NO idea as to what either means. Common Ground is or could be nature's way. This Teaser made no sense to me at all. PM and explain. I don't like being the odd or only one OUT or ALONe
the question was "what is special about these words?", meaning, what special thing can you do with all of them? the hint said "this wouldn't work if the words were listed in a different order" meaning if you put the words in a square:
WHAT
HOLE
ALES
TEST and changed it
HOLE
TEST
ALES
WHAT they wouldn't say each other if you looked down each row
do u get it now?
-Hailee a.k.a. hubbamutt777
WHAT
HOLE
ALES
TEST and changed it
HOLE
TEST
ALES
WHAT they wouldn't say each other if you looked down each row
do u get it now?
-Hailee a.k.a. hubbamutt777
I agree with precious! Trust me, you are not alone. I enjoy the comments more than the teaser. All you people saying it is easy must have been doing this sort of thing for a long time. I had no idea what to even look for!
I didn't get this one, but I loved it!
Very clever.
Very clever.
great one. I loved it.
I had to look at the hint, then I got it real fast.
Clever clever.
I love this one! Very clever. I nearly gave up and looked at the hint/answer, then the pattern leapt out at me. This is worthy of the faves list.
Solved without hint
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