Braingle: 'Word Jumble 4 - The Gemstone Series' Brain Teaser

Word Jumble 4 - The Gemstone Series

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Puzzle ID:	#29049
Fun:	(2.92)
Difficulty:	(2.29)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	brainster
Corrected By:	Winner4600

Unscramble the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form another word that is the answer to this teaser:

LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4
DONU Take letters 1 & 4

Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?

Answer

LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2 - QUAIL, take Q,U
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4 - TEPID, take T,E,I
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4 - STORE, take S,R
DONU Take letters 1 & 4 - UNDO, take U,O

Unscramble the above to get 'Turquoise'.

Turquoise is a beautiful blue gemstone known since ancient times for its beauty. Through today, it is believed to bring wealth to one who wears it. In some cultures, it is known to act as a talisman to avoid any untoward accidents or dangers in life.
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Comments

RedAngle65 Mar 14, 2006	GOOD ONE
jntrcs Mar 14, 2006	Way fun!
brainster Mar 14, 2006	Thanks guys! Glad you liked it!
iteachkids Mar 25, 2006	I only got it because I just did your two others and knew that you were on a precious stone theme ... GREAT teasers!!!
brainster Mar 25, 2006	Thanks I am glad you liked it!
thimblenoggin Apr 14, 2006	Nice Jumble Sixth Comment-Where in the world are you people and what time do you get up?
lmurray Apr 14, 2006	CHINA HOURS B 4 U
annie_hp_fan Apr 14, 2006	That was certainly a challenging one! I did enjoy it and look forward to doing your others.
coachpisco Apr 14, 2006	Never did well unscrambling letters. Good one though.
saleprice Apr 14, 2006	loved it... got words right, just took wrong letters out to sort till I read the whole thing again properly! well. it is early lol.
saleprice Apr 14, 2006	BTW thimble, I go to bed early & get up early too!
king_leonard Apr 14, 2006	i got it after a while but at least i got it! i guess thats all that matters! great teaser!!!
shawneeo Apr 14, 2006	I got it all except the final answer, i gave up pretty fast. I wished there had been a little hint or something for the final word, turquoise!, lol, I don't know, maybe after lots of scribbling I would've gotten that. Good going, thanks!
winbob423 Apr 14, 2006	Great teaser! I actually got this one right. Probably because I do the jumbles in the newspaper.
alis99 Apr 14, 2006	One of the best teasers ever i think!
bradon182001 Apr 14, 2006	Wow. I really liked this one, though I didn't get them all, or the answer obviously.Next time I'll try harder.
Rainfire Apr 14, 2006	Loved it! Just what I needed to get my mind workig this early!
vlerma Apr 14, 2006	Oh Brainster, what a gem. I loved it, and thanks for the history info on what I think is one of the most beautiful stones ever. I had a huge knuckle-buster ring made by a Native American at a National Campvention of NCHA in Colorado many years ago and it just grows more beautiful with age, just like me. Ha ha! Great teaser. I love thw word jumbles. More please.
RedAngle65 Apr 14, 2006	i love this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RedAngle65 Apr 14, 2006	Good one
Vigo95 Apr 14, 2006	i wasn't able to get tepid so i didn't finish
RedAngle65 Apr 14, 2006
choptlivva Apr 14, 2006	Good one Brainster!! Your directions were very clear, and that's so important in making a good teaser. Plus, the answer, turquoise was a more challenging word to unscramble than some. Good job!
cherokeerose Apr 14, 2006	i also did not get tepid so i did not get the answer...really good job though...
youdumbsavage Apr 14, 2006	pretty good teaser, i guess
iteachkids Apr 14, 2006	Note to Thimble - You were the FIRST to comment on this as Teaser-of-the-Day! All the comments before yours were added in March. See the categories to the left? You can go there to see teasers early and rate them before they get put up as T-o-D.
pacem Apr 14, 2006	Interesting. You can also unscramble the letters to get "quite sour"
azbee123 Apr 14, 2006	woohoo! amazingnesssssss!
tdbrsun Apr 14, 2006	Scrambles are always fun for me. This is a good one!
LadyBug4791 Apr 14, 2006	That was a great one. I couldn't get "tepid," so I didn't get the answer. But it was still a lot of fun.
ironduke Apr 14, 2006	I really enjoyed this one. Kinda tuff but fun.
cathym60 Apr 14, 2006	Good one!
POPS Apr 14, 2006	tHAT WAS fun wISH WE COULD GET MORE LIKE THIS.
thimblenoggin Apr 14, 2006	To Iteachkids: Thanks. I guess I got up too early to even notice the dates at the left today. At my age sometimes things we already know are puzzles!
syracuse945 Apr 14, 2006	nys... n the info of turquoises [i'm SO totali gess'n on spell'n here... ] was rili cool, 2... good job...
michelle3617 Apr 14, 2006	haha i ended up with quite sour instead of turquoise... whoops.
shawneeo Apr 14, 2006	yeah, i noticed the "sour" and "quite" thing too but I didn't think THAT was the answer! LOL!
brainster Apr 14, 2006	Thanks for your comments people! I think it's funny how nothing else enters your mind when you already know the answer you want to reach! I never thought of 'quite sour' even once! Interesting to see that many of you did!
brainster Apr 14, 2006	Also about the hint, I tried adding one through corrections, as I want to do another theme in my next Word Jumble set, but the correction was not approved. So I don't know how to make this easier!
bluehawk Apr 14, 2006	THIS ONE WAS NOT EXPLAINED VERY WELL. AT LEAST THATS MY THOUGHT.
RRAMMOHAN May 06, 2006	I too got 'quite sour'! A good teaser. Sorry for this late response.
ifarwe99 May 07, 2009	The third word in the series threw me because it can also be rearranged to spell "roset". That obviously did not help me to unscramble the final word
patiencewithaP May 07, 2009	Good one!
auntiesis May 07, 2009	I didn't notice the title, and has a hard time getting the final answer. The rest were easy, but very clever. Good one.
V_Bapat May 07, 2009	Surprisingly, I got this one pretty fast, that too without scribbling. Just read it on the phone and bingo!!! Probably because I do these daily morning jumble that comes in the newspaper.
Shadows May 07, 2009	This kept me busy for five minutes. I guess I cheated - I used the anagram machine thingy. Still, it was a fun teaser! Good job! By the way, the third word could also be "rotes". "Store" makes more sense.
Babe May 07, 2012	Yaaay! Good teaser! Lots of fun working it out! Very enjoyable.