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Octogenarian
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All of the words in List A have something particular in common. There is a member in List B that shares this same common thread. What is the member from List B that does?
List A
Octogenarian
Hexagon
December
List B
November
Apropos
Binnacle
List A
Octogenarian
Hexagon
December
List B
November
Apropos
Binnacle
Hint
Hint: "I think I might expand my customer base, but not next month."Answer
The member of List B that shares the commonality with those in List A is BINNACLE.The words in List A all begin with a BASE abbreviation.
OCT=OCTAL (Disguised as OCTogenarian)
HEX=HEXADECIMAL (Disguised as HEXagon)
DEC=DECIMAL (Disguised as DECember)
BIN= BINARY (Disguised as BINnacle)
Hint:
I think I might expand my customer base, but not next month.
BASE of course, was the key word, and by saying 'NOT next MONTH' you would know the answer was not November. Left w/ two choices. You would have to (of course) have caught on to the first three letters sequence. APRopos was there as a decoy. (Just in case you were still thinking months: APRil)
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Comments
Good one. Being a mathematician I spotted it straight away. Probably a good thing I didn't go for the hint.
A Mathematician? That explains it! You think the hint would have threw you for a loop huh? It's like that sometimes.
Ahoy there Mate ! The ship's compass points to a genius. That's YOU.
Thanx Griphook! However, a real Genius would have devised a method by now, where he can come up with a really hard teaser and not have it watered down by the Editors to a "Column A" "Column B" situation (I applied their suggestion, and it backfired). Oh, wait.....someone has already done that......YOU!
Thanks. Once in a while, I still look at my many rejected teasers and smile. :-)
May 21, 2003
Good teaser! I fell for this one... I thought they were all words that had the beginnings of latin numbers as prefixes and chose November. Oh well.
Unfortunately, hexa is from the Greek for six. Nevertheless, substitute 'Classical' for 'Latin' and the answer given by anonymous is infinitely better than the 'official' one.
Good job and keep them coming!
Nice, I was thining latin roots, because of the apprpos, and dec, hex, oct, nov.
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