Can you spot the word link?

dreamdaisy
dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
edited 11. May 2010, 06:11 in Community Chit-chat archive
Are you able to spot the link between these words?

absorb, basic, card, done, elf, flag, gosh, hi?

That's the first set. DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Are you able to spot the link between these words?

    absorb, basic, card, done, elf, flag, gosh, hi?

    That's the first set. DD

    The link is that the first word begins with a and ends with b, the next begins with b and ends with c, and so on through the alphabet.
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  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    No I'm lysdexic! :roll:
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    joanlawson wrote:
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    Are you able to spot the link between these words?

    absorb, basic, card, done, elf, flag, gosh, hi?

    That's the first set. DD

    The link is that the first word begins with a and ends with b, the next begins with b and ends with c, and so on through the alphabet.
    I knew that :roll: well if you had given me longer maybe :)
    Love
    Barbara
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    mellman01 wrote:
    No I'm lysdexic! :roll:

    Aren't you supposed to be working :?: :?:

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,837
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    joanlawson wrote:
    mellman01 wrote:
    No I'm lysdexic! :roll:

    Aren't you supposed to be working :?: :?:

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    Ooh Joan :shock:

    Poor Mell :(

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I had a feeling that joanlawson would be there first. It's possible to carry on for most of the alphabet, can't do i-j, or y-z. X-y is permissable with, obviously x-ray. With such puzzles do I amuse myself in the wee small hours when the joints are making their presence felt. I am currently stuck on 3 syllable words ending in /er/, such as another, banister, cleverer, disaster. I get stuck on the usual suspects in these lists, j and k being the worst. Sorry I posted something so easy! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    dreamdaisy wrote:
    I had a feeling that joanlawson would be there first. It's possible to carry on for most of the alphabet, can't do i-j, or y-z. X-y is permissable with, obviously x-ray. With such puzzles do I amuse myself in the wee small hours when the joints are making their presence felt. I am currently stuck on 3 syllable words ending in /er/, such as another, banister, cleverer, disaster. I get stuck on the usual suspects in these lists, j and k being the worst. Sorry I posted something so easy! DD
    Sorry did you say easy :shock:
    Love
    Barbara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Sit and have a little think, and you will find that you can carry it on. I'll get you started: jerk, keel, loam. Now, can you find m-n? I can provide a clue if you can't. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    joanlawson wrote:
    mellman01 wrote:
    No I'm lysdexic! :roll:

    Aren't you supposed to be working :?: :?:

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    OOOOOP'S!!!
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Just keeping you in line, Mell :!: :D

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  • tillytop
    tillytop Member Posts: 3,460
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD I love word games too so, after a happy half hour with my dictionary this is what I have come up with (including definitions for words which I had never come across until today so no-one thinks I have invented them).
    NardO - Australian cloverlike fern
    OrloP - lowest deck of a ship
    P Q - not a clue
    QueeR
    RecesS
    SpraT
    TiramasU
    U V - not a clue
    VieW
    WaX
    XylopyrograpY - designs made on wood with a hot poker
    Y Z - not a clue

    Howzat?!! Tilly x :D
  • c4thyg
    c4thyg Member Posts: 542
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Tilly,

    What about simply UV as the abbreviation for ultraviolet or isn't that allowed.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I do make exceptions - no English word ends in/v/ alone, so /ve/ is permitted, along with /que/ so I include pique and - oh, mind's gone blank. Can't remember the u-v one. Blast. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben