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Word Grid 2
Arrange 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 words are: acrid, album, banjo, blind, brick, candy, caper, cumin, dream, flush, found, index, limbo, melon, miter, novel, plait, roast, thank, tiger, tuber, under, valor, waist, weird.
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.
One letter of each word is provided in the grid.
Row 1: r p o w l
Row 2: u m d e f
Row 3: x a b t p
Row 4: e c s r o
Row 5: d y v k e
The words are: acrid, album, banjo, blind, brick, candy, caper, cumin, dream, flush, found, index, limbo, melon, miter, novel, plait, roast, thank, tiger, tuber, under, valor, waist, weird.
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.
One letter of each word is provided in the grid.
Row 1: r p o w l
Row 2: u m d e f
Row 3: x a b t p
Row 4: e c s r o
Row 5: d y v k e
Answer
dream caper banjo waist albumunder cumin found tuber flush
index acrid limbo tiger plait
weird brick roast miter valor
blind candy novel thank melon
Common Letters
Rows 1 to 5: a, u, i, r, n
Columns 1 to 5: d, c, o, t, l
Diagonals 1 to 2: m, b
1) There is only one word with "x", so Cell 3.1 is "index".
2) There is only one word with "y", so Cell 5.2 is "candy".
3) Cell 5.4 contains "k" and must share a letter with "candy", so it is either "brick" or "thank". If it is "brick", then the words in Row 5 must share "c". Cell 5.3 would have to contain "c" and "v". There is no word with both those letters, so Cell 5.4 is "thank".
4) Cell 2.5 contains "f" and Cell 3.5 contains "p". The only combination of "f" and "p" words that share a common letter are Cell 2.5 being "flush" and Cell 3.5 being "plait". Cell 1.2 contains "p", so it is "caper".
5) The words in Row 3 must share "i". The words in Column 5 must share "l".
6) Cell 1.4 contains "w". It must be a word that shares a common letter with "caper" and "thank", so Cell 1.4 is "waist".
7) The words in Row 1 must share "a". Therefore, the words in Row 5 must share "n", the words in Column 2 must share "c", and the words in Column 4 must share "t".
8) Cell 5.3 contains "v", so it is "novel". Cell 5.5 contains "e" and must also contain "l" and "n", so it is "melon".
9) The only letter that can be shared by the words in Row 2 is "u".
10) Cell 2.2 must contain "u", "c", and "m", so it is "cumin". Cell 2.4 must contain "u", "t", and "e", so it is "tuber".
11) The words in Diagonal 1 must share "m".
12) Cell 1.1 is "dream". Cell 3.3 is "limbo". Cell 4.4 is "miter".
13) The words in Diagonal 2 must share "b".
14) Cell 5.1 is "blind". Cell 4.2 is "brick". Cell 1.5 is "album".
15) Cell 3.4 is "tiger". Cell 4.5 is "valor".
16) The words in Row 4 must share "r". The words in Column 1 must share "d". The words in Column 3 must share "o".
17) Cell 3.2 is "acrid".
18) Cell 4.3 is "roast". Cell 2.3 is "found". Cell 1.3 is "banjo".
19) Cell 2.1 is "under". Cell 4.1 is "weird".
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