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Word Jumble 4 - The Gemstone Series
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?
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,UPDIET 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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GOOD ONE
Way fun!
Thanks guys! Glad you liked it!
I only got it because I just did your two others and knew that you were on a precious stone theme ... GREAT teasers!!!
Thanks I am glad you liked it!
Nice Jumble
Sixth Comment-Where in the world are you people and what time do you get up?
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That was certainly a challenging one! I did enjoy it and look forward to doing your others.
Never did well unscrambling letters. Good one though.
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.
BTW thimble, I go to bed early & get up early too!
i got it after a while but at least i got it! i guess thats all that matters! great teaser!!!
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!
Great teaser! I actually got this one right. Probably because I do the jumbles in the newspaper.
One of the best teasers ever i think!
Wow. I really liked this one, though I didn't get them all, or the answer obviously.Next time I'll try harder.
Loved it! Just what I needed to get my mind workig this early!
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.
i love this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good one
i wasn't able to get tepid so i didn't finish
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!
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!
i also did not get tepid so i did not get the answer...really good job though...
pretty good teaser, i guess
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.
Interesting. You can also unscramble the letters to get "quite sour"
woohoo! amazingnesssssss!
Scrambles are always fun for me. This is a good one!
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.
I really enjoyed this one. Kinda tuff but fun.
Good one!
tHAT WAS fun wISH WE COULD GET MORE LIKE THIS.
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!
nys... n the info of turquoises [i'm SO totali gess'n on spell'n here... ] was rili cool, 2... good job...
haha i ended up with quite sour instead of turquoise... whoops.
yeah, i noticed the "sour" and "quite" thing too but I didn't think THAT was the answer! LOL!
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!
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!
THIS ONE WAS NOT EXPLAINED VERY WELL. AT LEAST THATS MY THOUGHT.
I too got 'quite sour'! A good teaser. Sorry for this late response.
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
Good one!
I didn't notice the title, and has a hard time getting the final answer. The rest were easy, but very clever. Good one.
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.
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.
By the way, the third word could also be "rotes". "Store" makes more sense.
Yaaay! Good teaser! Lots of fun working it out! Very enjoyable.
Great teaser. I had fun with this one! Thanks for posting!
nicely done
Good one. I was thinking turquoise, b/c of the title, but for the last word I had "UDON", like the noodles, and couldn't figure out the N. Should've rethought that!
Very nice. I hate to admit that even after getting all the correct anagrams, I failed to come up with turquoise. I could not think of any gemstones with "qa" other than aquamarine. Great teaser.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got all of the words and the answer very quickly.
That was fun, thanks!
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