Word Grid 6Arrange 25 five-letter words in a 5-by-5 grid. The five words in each row share a common letter. The five words in each column share a common letter. The five words in each diagonal share a common letter. There are 12 different common letters.
The grid cells are identified by row (1 to 5, top to bottom) and column (1 to 5, left to right). Example: Cell 3.2 identifies Row 3 Column 2. The words are: adobe, bugle, clang, dairy, devil, drift, glove, grimy, gruel, lofty, merit, mound, moves, nymph, pivot, plumb, prize, scrub, skirt, snail, spray, stove, thank, tribe, yeast. One letter of each word is provided in the grid. Row 1: y c g l u Row 2: a m d v i Row 3: s h p o r Row 4: e l b s k Row 5: o a i e t Answergrimy clang bugle glove grueldairy mound adobe devil drift spray nymph plumb pivot prize yeast snail scrub moves skirt lofty thank tribe stove merit Common Letters Rows 1 to 5: g, d, p, s, t Columns 1 to 5: y, n, b, v, r Diagonals 1 and 2: m, l 1) Cell 1.2 contains "c", and must be either "clang" or "scrub". Cell 3.2 contains "h", and must be either "nymph" or "thank". Cell 1.2 is "clang", since "scrub" shares no letters with "nymph" or "thank". The words in Column 2 must share "a" or "n". Cell 2.2 contains "m", but there is no word that also contains "a". The words in Column 2 must share "n". The only word that contains both "l" and "n" is "snail" ("clang" already used). Cell 4.2 is "snail". By similar reasoning, Cell 5.2 is "thank", Cell 3.2 is "nymph", and Cell 2.2 is "mound". 2) Cell 4.5 contains "k", and must be "skirt". Cell 1.5 is "gruel" (contains "u" and shares a letter with "skirt"; "scrub" would not fit, since the only shared letter with "clang" is "c", which only appears twice). The words in Column 5 must share "r". 3) The words in Diagonal 2 must share "l". Cell 3.3 is "plumb" (contains "l" and "p"). The words in Diagonal 1 must share "m" ("u" will not work, since there are not enough unused "u" words). Cell 1.1 is "grimy" (contains "m" and "y"), Cell 4.4 is "moves" (contains "m" and "s"), and Cell 5.5 is "merit" (contains "m" and "t"). The words in Row 3 must share "p" ("m" already assigned). Cell 3.1 is "spray" (contains "p" and "s"), Cell 3.4 is "pivot" (contains "p" and "o"), and Cell 3.5 is "prize" (contains "p" and "r"). 4) The words in Row 4 must share "s". Cell 4.3 is "scrub" ("s" and "b"). The words in Column 3 must share "b". Cell 1.3 is "bugle" ("b" and "g"), Cell 2.3 is "adobe" ("b" and "d"), and Cell 5.3 is "tribe" ("b" and "i"). 5) The words in Row 1 must share "g". Cell 1.4 is "glove" ("g" and "l"). 6) Cell 5.1 is "lofty" ("l" and "o"). Cell 2.4 is "devil" ("l" and "v"). 7) The words in Row 5 must share "t". The words in Column 4 must share "v". Cell 5.4 is "stove" ("t" and "v"). 8) Cell 4.1 is "yeast" ("s" and "e"). 9) The words in Column 1 must share "y". Cell 2.1 is "dairy". 10) The words in Row 2 must share "d". Cell 2.5 is "drift". Hide What Next?
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