Conundrum alphabet

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:03 am

jasoncullen wrote:My sincerest apologies if KINESCOPE has appeared before. Mind you, no-one seemed to have got it so there was no feeling of de ja vu amongst the forumites

Indeed. I've never heard of it, less used it in a conundrum alphabet.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:41 am

Here is another one of my conundrum alphabets. My apologies if these conundrums have either; been repeated in this forum, shown on TV or are too easy (although I think this alphabet is more difficult than the previous one I made) After a lot of stick from some unruly forumites, I have decided to give conundrums that are accepted by CountMax only and none from my own dictionary - which is unreliable

Enjoy and no cheats please

1. DINEGOLLY
2. GOONYRULE
3. OKIMGRASS
4. INTICEADI
5. SOYAGUNGE
6. IWATCHTOE
7. FAMEBORIS
8. RUINDREAM
9. ARAMTHEFT
10. RIDEHARRY
11. DOLEMOVER
12. VIKCLOSET
13. SUEFORGED
14. DARTQUEER
15. SWEATINNS
16. COILNODDY
17. COMETIGER
18. TOADVOTER
19. RANDYBEST
20. REETGOONS
21. BOOMINGLY
22. BUNCEJAIL
23. UNOISEGUN
24. IRISSOAPS

N.B. There is no conundrum for the letter "X" and for "Z" - for obvious reasons

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:16 pm

I tried to restrict myself to 30 seconds for each so hence my rather dire performance, the only ones I did get were some well known countdown-type words/ conundrums.

YODELLING
KISSOGRAM
UNMARRIED
HAIRDRYER
VELODROME
QUARTERED
GEOMETRIC
ROTOVATED (I think this is actually ROTAVATED so

- didn't want to check in case that's considered cheating

)
BYSTANDER
OESTROGEN
MYOGLOBIN
JUBILANCE
PSORIASIS

I will probably have a longer look later.

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:07 pm

FRAMBOISE and TAWNINESS.

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:22 pm

05. SYNAGOGUE
09. AFTERMATH
12. LIVESTOCK
23. INGENUOUS? something like that.

Which leaves: C D E N W

02. GOONYRULE
04. INTICEADI
06. IWATCHTOE
13. SUEFORGED
16. COILNODDY

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Sun May 04, 2008 12:21 am

Which leaves: C D E N W

02. GOONYRULE - NEUROLOGY
06. IWATCHTOE - WHITECOAT
16. COILNODDY - CONDYLOID

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sun May 04, 2008 12:58 am

Ooooh. I just got 'D', quite surprised too I didn't get this earlier.

04. INTICEADI - DIETICIAN

That now just leaves 13. SUEFORGED, which must begin with 'E'.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:35 am

if it's not EGOSURFED then it should be

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sun May 04, 2008 10:25 am

David O'Donnell wrote:ROTOVATED (I think this is actually ROTAVATED so - didn't want to check in case that's considered cheating )

According to Countmax both are acceptable.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:11 am

Well done everyone who took part. They are all correct

. Mind you, I thought these were more difficult than the last alphabet I did (but apparently not judging on the speed you forumites got them!)

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun May 04, 2008 1:45 pm

N.B. I am putting together a general knowledge quiz in the "Off-topic" section of the forum. It is under the name "How Smart Do You Think You Are?". Have a look at them and see how many you can get right

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:49 pm

jasoncullen wrote:Well done everyone who took part. They are all correct . Mind you, I thought these were more difficult than the last alphabet I did (but apparently not judging on the speed you forumites got them!)

It was a good selection of words.

I bet you couldn't do a Goatdown Conundrum Challenge though using each letter

.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:40 pm

No I will leave a goatdown conundrum to someone else

Be my guest Joseph

I will post another of my conundrum alphabets at the end of the week

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sun May 04, 2008 11:40 pm

jasoncullen wrote:No I will leave a goatdown conundrum to someone else Be my guest Joseph I will post another of my conundrum alphabets at the end of the week

You are better than me JaCu at setting these conundrum challenges

. Surely you can come up with something

.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:18 pm

Here is another one of my notorious conundrum alphabets. My apologies if these conundrums have either; been repeated in this forum, shown on TV or are too easy (although I think this alphabet is more difficult than the previous ones I made) After a lot of stick from some unruly forumites, I have decided to give conundrums that are accepted by CountMax only and none from my own dictionary - which is unreliable

Enjoy and no cheats please

1. BIZIFOMED
2. VIOLETTIM
3. NATPROVED
4. REUSEZIPS
5. THEREPOXY
6. YALEBELCH
7. GINTREATY
8. SOFAURINE
9. PERDYHOVE
10. IBEGAICON
11. IWANKREEM
12. HUGDELAMP
13. EROTICISM
14. NEETTHUMP
15. DAILYMACH
16. IMATCHSON
17. LOATHEBUB
18. FRONTRIBS
19. CATYMOVES
20. QUEERJACI
21. HOAXEDLIP
22. MARRYQUEN
23. IDONTOXEN
24. IFORAPRON
25. OKWRAPPER
26. TRAKSONGS

N.B. Conundrum number 13 which is scrambled as EROTICISM has a valid word mixed within it. So it is not the word for the letter "E" so there is no confusion

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:50 pm

I can get a few, so it mustn't bee too hard

01. ZOMBIFIED
04. SUPERSIZE
06. BELLYACHE
09. OVERHYPED
13. ISOMETRIC
14. UMPTEENTH
15. CHLAMYDIA
16. MACINTOSH
18. FIRSTBORN
19. VASECTOMY
22. QUARRYMEN
25. PAPERWORK

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Fri May 09, 2008 8:36 am

I can only add a few more and some I flat out guessed so they could be wrong.

LEITMOTIV (I assume this is a variant spelling, LEITMOTIF is more usual, I think)
DAVENPORT
ABIOGENIC (This is a guess!)
WINEMAKER
HETEROPYX (Another guess!)
KNOTGRASS (A half guess but I think this is a herb).

Those looked a bit tricky JaCu, I hope there aren't loads of science ones in there, I hate the science ones

Martin Gardner · Post by **Martin Gardner** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:50 am

That leaves us with:

7. GINTREATY - YATTERING?
8. SOFAURINE
12. HUGDELAMP
17. LOATHEBUB
20. QUEERJACI - JACQUERIE or JACQUIERE for a guess, I can't think what else would work!
21. HOAXEDLIP
23. IDONTOXEN
24. IFORAPRON - RAINPROOF

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:55 am

HEXAPLOID (another guess after not finding a satisfactory -poidal ending)

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:06 am

Very tricky this one Ja Cu. Hats off to you

Only got 10 over about 10 mins. Of which the only unsolved one is 8. SOFAURINE = NEFARIOUS

Damian E · Post by **Damian E** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:07 am

8. NEFARIOUS

12. GALUMPHED

ENDOTOXIN?

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:11 am

XEROPHYTE

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:20 am

By my reckoning the only one left is LOATHEBUB which by process of elimination begins with T.

TABBUHOLE? (Sounds dirty)

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:32 pm

I have a vague recollection of TABBOULEH as being something I may have eaten.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:24 pm

Oh you're a clever bunch

. Between you all, you managed to get every single one correct despite being quite difficult and obscure. Here are the full classified answers below;

1. BIZIFOMED - ZOMBIFIED
2. VIOLETTIM - LEITMOTIV
3. NATPROVED - DAVENPORT
4. REUSEZIPS - SUPERSIZE
5. THEREPOXY - XEROPHYTE
6. YALEBELCH - BELLYACHE
7. GINTREATY - YATTERING
8. SOFAURINE - NEFARIOUS
9. PERDYHOVE - OVERHYPED
10. IBEGAICON - ABIOGENIC
11. IWANKREEM - WINEMAKER
12. HUGDELAMP - GALUMPHED
13. EROTICISM - ISOMETRIC
14. NEETTHUMP - UMPTEENTH
15. DAILYMACH - CHLAMYDIA
16. IMATCHSON - MACINTOSH
17. LOATHEBUB - TABBOULEH
18. FRONTRIBS - FIRSTBORN
19. CATYMOVES - VASECTOMY
20. QUEERJACI - JACQUERIE
21. HOAXEDLIP - HEXAPLOID
22. MARRYQUEN - QUARRYMEN
23. IDONTOXEN - ENDOTOXIN
24. IFORAPRON - RAINPROOF
25. OKWRAPPER - PAPERWORK
26. TRAKSONGS - KNOTGRASS

Thanks to all who took part. The next instalment of my nine letter anagrams will come next week

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Tue May 13, 2008 2:01 am

jasoncullen wrote:Thanks to all who took part. The next instalment of my nine letter anagrams will come next week

See if you can come up with a set of conundrums that all but one conundrum have more than one answer each, different letters of the alphabet, and the remaining one has a single answer which needs to be solved first in order to solve the others through process of elimination

.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:59 pm

Joseph Bolas wrote:
jasoncullen wrote:Thanks to all who took part. The next instalment of my nine letter anagrams will come next week
See if you can come up with a set of conundrums that all but one conundrum have more than one answer each, different letters of the alphabet, and the remaining one has a single answer which needs to be solved first in order to solve the others through process of elimination .

That would be one heck of a conundrum alphabet Joseph

. But also one heck of a banging headache afterwards

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Thu May 15, 2008 5:04 pm

JaCu wrote:
Joseph wrote:
JaCu wrote:Thanks to all who took part. The next instalment of my nine letter anagrams will come next week
See if you can come up with a set of conundrums that all but one conundrum have more than one answer each, different letters of the alphabet, and the remaining one has a single answer which needs to be solved first in order to solve the others through process of elimination .
That would be one heck of a conundrum alphabet Joseph . But also one heck of a banging headache afterwards

It would be one heck of a conundrum JaCu

, but we could do with a tough challenge

.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:10 pm

So my conundrums are not challenging Joseph? Right a different style conundrum alphabet will appear here over the weekend. Watch this space...

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:18 pm

I hope it's hypergoatnundrums.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:24 pm

It depends Jono. Does the forum prefer hypergoatconundrums or the usual nine letter anagrams with a phantom letter "S" in all of them to make it more difficult? Let me know asap

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:22 pm

Hypergoatnundrums are proper fun but proper hard to prepare. Ask Neb. As for the phantom S, well, I don't think that will cause too many problems. In fact, it will make it easier..

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:25 am

Here is another one of my notorious conundrum alphabets. My apologies if these conundrums have either; been repeated in this forum, shown on TV or are too easy. Sorry that it is one of my usual, boring alphabets but I have got a lot of revision to do at the moment so I don't have much time to do a hypergoatconundrum or something more challenging than usual

Sorry Joseph and Jono

Enjoy and no cheats please

1. BOOMBLAZE
2. UHOTMOULD
3. UNTILECHO
4. LOOZICHIP
5. RAPEDPONG
6. HIDTHINGS
7. DOLICLERK
8. ARGENTFOX
9. TROUTSTEM
10. STRAYDICK
11. REFSAGAIN
12. LALAQUEER
13. INSECTBOY
14. DANERAVED
15. WONGTHING
16. HEARTARTS
17. WROLLQUIK
18. DANIBORJA
19. BIGIHERBS
20. COMDEACON
21. HISINSECT
22. MONIWANKS
23. WIFEROPER
24. SAUNAPLEX
25. WHANKALOT
26. MIXPULLET

Told you they were easy!

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:46 am

Nice selection

. I think I've got 10 of them

.

01. BAMBOOZLE
03. TOUCHLINE
06. HINDSIGHT
07. ROLLICKED?
13. OBSCENITY
15. NIGHTGOWN
17. QUILLWORK?
19. GIBBERISH
23. FIREPOWER
26. MULTIPLEX

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:51 am

All correct so far Joseph

. But leave some for the other forumites to answer now

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sat May 17, 2008 8:59 am

jasoncullen wrote:All correct so far Joseph . But leave some for the other forumites to answer now

I will

.

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:13 am

2. LOUDMOUTH
10. YARDSTICK
11. SEAFARING

Thats all for now

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:49 am

All good so far Dinos

. Any other contributions from the forum?

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:55 am

Oh, excellent. I finally get to answer one of these before all the easy ones have disappeared.

8. XENOGRAFT ?
21. ITCHINESS
22. KINSWOMAN
24. PANSEXUAL ?
25. WALKATHON

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:09 pm

Only a couple of these jumped out at me but I can add:

UTTERMOST
VERANDAED
EARTHSTAR

Might have another crack in a bit.

GODPARENT was another one I think.

That leaves:

4. LOOZICHIP
12. LALAQUEER
18. DANIBORJA
20. COMDEACON

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:25 pm

Is 20 COMRADECY?

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:25 pm

Are you a Deicide fan, Jason?

It took me a while to see CACODEMON which I only got owing to a brief teenage dalliance with thrash metal. I cracked and checked the answers to the other three so I am out of the game. One of which I should have got but I hadn't heard of the other two.

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Sat May 17, 2008 1:26 pm

Corby wrote:Is 20 COMRADECY?

The 'nipper' hasn't been online in months so that jibe is wasted, unfortunately.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:15 pm

Ones to find;
5. RAPEDPONG
4. LOOZICHIP
12. LALAQUEER
18. DANIBORJA

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:20 pm

David O'Donnell said, "Are you a Deicide fan, Jason?"

I'm not a fan of anything I don't understand

But I'm Roman Catholic if that helps

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:45 am

5 is DOGNAPPER,

LOOZICHIP must begin with Z
LALAQUEER with A (I assume starts AQU...)
DANIBORJA with J (JABORDIAN?)

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun May 18, 2008 1:52 pm

DOGNAPPER is correct, Dinos

. JABORDIAN is incorrect though. Two left to find now everyone

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:04 pm

Here are the full classified answers to the last alphabet. Well done to all who participated

1. BOOMBLAZE - BAMBOOZLE
2. UHOTMOULD - LOUDMOUTH
3. UNTILECHO - TOUCHLINE
4. LOOZICHIP - ZOOPHILIC
5. RAPEDPONG - DOGNAPPER
6. HIDTHINGS - HINDSIGHT
7. DOLICLERK - ROLLICKED
8. ARGENTFOX - XENOGRAFT
9. TROUTSTEM - UTTERMOST
10. STRAYDICK - YARDSTICK
11. REFSAGAIN - SEAFARING
12. LALAQUEER - AQUARELLE
13. INSECTBOY - OBSCENITY
14. DANERAVED - VERANDAED
15. WONGTHING - NIGHTGOWN
16. HEARTARTS - EARTHSTAR
17. WROLLQUIK - QUILLWORK
18. DANIBORJA - JABORANDI
19. BIGIHERBS - GIBBERISH
20. COMDEACON - CACODEMON
21. HISINSECT - ITCHINESS
22. MONIWANKS - KINSWOMAN
23. WIFEROPER - FIREPOWER
24. SAUNAPLEX - PANSEXUAL
25. WHANKALOT - WALKATHON
26. MIXPULLET - MULTIPLEX

The ones forumites couldn't solve are;
12. LALAQUEER - AQUARELLE
18. DANIBORJA - JABORANDI
4. LOOZICHIP - ZOOPHILIC

Another alphabet will appear in the middle of the week

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:04 pm

jasoncullen wrote:The ones forumites couldn't solve are;
12. LALAQUEER - AQUARELLE
18. DANIBORJA - JABORANDI

Another alphabet will appear in the middle of the week

Who solved ZOOPHILIC

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:34 pm

jasoncullen wrote:David O'Donnell said, "Are you a Deicide fan, Jason?"

I'm not a fan of anything I don't understand But I'm Roman Catholic if that helps

Ah, you're a wee fenian like myself! You have an Irish surname, are you like young Mr. Travers and have links over here in Ireland? Deicide are a thrash metal band that are endlessly banging on about satan, cacodemons and the like.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:51 pm

David O'Donnell wrote:
jasoncullen wrote:David O'Donnell said, "Are you a Deicide fan, Jason?"

I'm not a fan of anything I don't understand But I'm Roman Catholic if that helps
Ah, you're a wee fenian like myself! You have an Irish surname, are you like young Mr. Travers and have links over here in Ireland? Deicide are a thrash metal band that are endlessly banging on about satan, cacodemons and the like.

Yes my grandad was Irish

. No I'm not really into Deicide type music myself

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:47 pm

Here is another one of my notorious conundrum alphabets except bigger and more challenging. My apologies if these conundrums have either; been repeated in this forum, shown on TV or are too obscure. This time there are a MEGA 52 conundrums to be solved (2 conundrums for each letter of the alphabet) and 2 of these conundrums is the plural version of an 8 letter word.

Enjoy and no cheats please

Also, please do not answer too many in one go because it spoils it for the other forumites who haven't seen this new alphabet as quickly as you

1. TAXIVIDEO
2. CLAIMWISH
3. GITBREEZE
4. RARETOWNS
5. DOLEBRAIN
6. HIAJOULES
7. POOFATHER
8. CRITIAURA
9. ATITSEYES
10. GILDEDHAT
11. BLOATMICE
12. IEATTHORN
13. SOARKITES
14. CRABWELLS
15. VAGUEWIDE
16. BOATERJUG
17. SEEMOTHER
18. CHECKPAJA
19. OATIKLEIN
20. RIBIVASES
21. APRONPETE
22. NITECREEP
23. SCOOPNAME
24. LIECOBLES
25. TOEPRAISE
26. BIMIHONEY
27. BREEDSTAR
28. SAMEDANCE
29. QUEERCLAD
30. RAIDFREEK
31. POURCUNTY
32. GERMYCLAN
33. HANATEXTS
34. IGOMULLER
35. TRACEMOLE
36. QUELMICKI
37. GETITSIZE
38. GRAPEDIRT
39. YOUDITHER
40. OMUCHNINE
41. GAMBLEFIN
42. STARIMORN
43. SAXAMONTH
44. RUNBREATH
45. KARTERJEW
46. TRICQUEEN
47. DRIVEMICE
48. SAVERIDGE
49. FATIFROGS
50. RATITEXTS
51. CAPSULATE
52. SCIENTIAL

N.B. The last two conundrums are real words but there is another nine letter word mixed within them. So please don't confuse them for the actual anagrams

Joseph Bolas · Post by **Joseph Bolas** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:59 pm

I could only see 14 of them, so these might be tricky ... for a change

02. WHIMSICAL
04. NARROWEST
06. JAILHOUSE
13. SCREWBALL
17. THREESOME
22. EPICENTRE
23. MOONSCAPE
29. LACQUERED
31. UPCOUNTRY
32. CLERGYMAN
35. LATECOMER
38. PARTRIDGE
41. FLAMBEING
44. HEARTBURN

Ben Pugh · Post by **Ben Pugh** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:00 pm

Quick glance, GRAVESIDE, LACQUERED and PERIOSTEA jumped out at me.

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:05 pm

Excellent so far Ben and Joseph

. Don't do anymore for the time being Joseph (you probably couldn't even if you tried

)

N.B. Check out my new "Pick 'n' Choose" quiz in the Off-topic thread of the forum. Be brave

David O'Donnell · Post by **David O'Donnell** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:33 pm

I had a quick go too hence the guesses

.

1. OXIDATIVE (guess)
5. BANDOLIER
7. HEATPROOF
8. URTICARIA
10. DEADLIGHT (guess)
14. SCREWBALL
15. WAVEGUIDE
24. BELLICOSE
27. REDBREAST
28. DAMASCENE
37. ZEITGEIST
42. RAINSTORM
45. JERKWATER
47. VERMICIDE
49. GRAFFITOS (guess)

Edit: There were a few more guesses like OBJURGATE, QUIRECENT and JACKPEACH but they sounded absurd.

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:59 pm

3. ZEITGEBER
9. YEASTIEST
43. XANTHOMAS

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:05 pm

David O'Donnell wrote:I had a quick go too hence the guesses .

1. OXIDATIVE (guess)
5. BANDOLIER
7. HEATPROOF
8. URTICARIA
10. DEADLIGHT (guess)
14. SCREWBALL
15. WAVEGUIDE
24. BELLICOSE
27. REDBREAST
28. DAMASCENE
37. ZEITGEIST
42. RAINSTORM
45. JERKWATER
47. VERMICIDE
49. GRAFFITOS (guess)

Edit: There were a few more guesses like OBJURGATE, QUIRECENT and JACKPEACH but they sounded absurd.

A great attempt David. OBJURGATE is actually correct but your other two in the edit bit are incorrect

Number 49 is also wrong. Thanks for having a go David and now let the rest of the Countdown clan do some thinking

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:06 pm

Richard Brittain wrote:3. ZEITGEBER
9. YEASTIEST
43. XANTHOMAS

All correct Richard well done

JasonCullen · Post by **JasonCullen** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:08 pm

By my reckoning there are now 18 unsolved conundrums left. No cheating people