Braingle: 'Case of the Missing O's' Brain Teaser

Case of the Missing O's

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Puzzle ID:	#41205
Fun:	(3.22)
Difficulty:	(1.64)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	Scubee

The letter "o" has been removed from the following words. Can you guess them all?

1) utdr
2) bnxius
3) drus
4) nlker
5) nmatpeia
6) ppsitin
7) rthdx
8) cckat
9) prtbell
10) vd

Hint

There are three o's missing from every word except #5 and #10.
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Comments

grilledcheese Mar 25, 2008	i got most of them! wooo
RGW4 Mar 25, 2008	totally got me on voodoo. I was only putting 1 or 2 in...good job!
aranara89 Mar 25, 2008	Got all except onomatopoeia. grrrr
suprfrek96 Mar 25, 2008	I suck, 3, 9, and 10 got me. The rest were easy.
tommysmo Mar 27, 2008	10! EZ but well done!
hipeople Mar 27, 2008	that ws awesome
sistersarah Mar 28, 2008	great teaser! i actually got most of them!!!!
Jessrox97 Mar 31, 2008	nice teser! I actually got some right!
Jessrox97 Mar 31, 2008	teaser
thisisme91 Apr 02, 2008	Nice one i got all but three...i thought D was the first letter LOL.
abrain Oct 03, 2008	great o words.
builder Oct 05, 2008	I agree with abrain, but too easy
FredS Oct 05, 2008	Good job, I don't have the patience to think up all those words.
dancer141 Oct 05, 2008	Nice job - I got most of them
vlerma Oct 05, 2008	Nice job, Scubee. I got all of them but one, and it was a almst impssible ne.
monkey289 Oct 05, 2008	couldn't get the last three... no idea what portobello is anyway! but great job!
malogalee Oct 05, 2008	that was a good one!! cant believe i got all of them!!! woo hoo
elwxxxswimchick Oct 05, 2008	hehe didn't get one of them...
jcann Oct 05, 2008	What an interesting and unique teaser! I got most of them after reading the hint--that helped a lot. But I didn't get #10 because I thought there had to be less than three, although the hint didn't say that. Thanks--it was fun!
Nicky101 Oct 05, 2008	That was so fun! Sounding it out definitely helped me, even though I ended up sounding like an idiot... .
phyllisa Oct 05, 2008	Very well written, but I got stuck on 8 & 10!!!!
phyllisa Oct 05, 2008	Very well written, but I got stuck on 8 & 10!!!!
FatHead Oct 05, 2008	I missed #9, but at least I tried! And I got the others right! (Yea me.) Good teaser.
avonma Oct 05, 2008	I misspelled onomatopoeia wrong (again), but at least I got 'em all.
avonma Oct 05, 2008	That was fun! Thanks!
GreenApples27 Oct 05, 2008	got them all except portobello? Never heard of it. Can someone explain what that is? voodoo was the easiest and I didn't get onlooker until a long time
kp52 Oct 05, 2008	It was to easy for me. But it was fun. Great teaser.
jmichalek0121 Oct 05, 2008	number three got me stuck for a minute. pretty stellar quiz.
jcann Oct 05, 2008	Portabello is a delicious mushroom.
jcann Oct 05, 2008	Sorry, spelled it wrong.
auntiesis Oct 06, 2008	Loved this teaser. Onlooker was the only one 1 missed, the rest were fairly easy. Very clever. Thanks
Barticus Oct 06, 2008	I got nine of them immediately; number 10 took some head scratching. 5, 8, 9, and 10 are all potentially hard. 8
zaya Oct 09, 2008	that was fun though seplling #5 right is a nightmare
Javian Oct 18, 2008	'Odorous' totally fooled me. Nice teaser.
gymboy09 Nov 08, 2008	Nice Teaser
mathgrant Nov 29, 2008	I got all ten. 3 was probably the hardest, but overall, I found it relatively easy, but fun.
Babe Oct 06, 2011	Very easy, but I like easy, and liked this one especially. Got them all.
HABS2933 Oct 06, 2011	LOVED it, as stated above, fairly easy. Got most of them just looking at them, a couple took a bit of thought, but for some reason orthodox stumped me, could not for the life of me come up with it. Was obvious once I saw the answer.
quads84 Oct 06, 2011	I feel like this one was a bit more original than most of the teasers I see. Fun, but easy. I finished all 10 in less than a minute!
gaylewolf Oct 06, 2011	Great teaser! I ttally lved this ne. (o's missing!) Thanks for a good teaser. Happy Thursday, friends!
doehead Oct 06, 2011	#5 evaded me, but the rest were pretty easy. G&S
wordmama Oct 06, 2011	Before the hint, I couldn't get any b/c I was trying to put in only one 'o', since there was no plural in the directions! After the hint I got eight of them easily; I missed onlooker and cockatoo! Fun!
davidrools Oct 06, 2011	got 'em all pretty quick, but very fun
auntiesis Oct 07, 2011	Good one but a tad easy.