Someone linked to this handy page on countdown wiki a while ago, which lists 7-letter words which are never the max (because each one only contains 2 vowels and the addition of any vowel will give you an 8-letter word).
But according to Mark Tournoff's book, there is also an "8s which are always winners" list... and I wondered if anyone could find a link for me (I've tried, but failed)?
8s which are always winners
-
- Enthusiast
- Posts: 327
- Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:18 am
Re: 8s which are always winners
By "8s which are always winners", do you just mean 8s to which you can't add any letter to make a 9? There'll be literally thousands of them surely?
-
- Enthusiast
- Posts: 327
- Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:18 am
- Martin Gardner
- Kiloposter
- Posts: 1492
- Joined: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:57 pm
- Location: Leeds, UK
- Contact:
Re: 8s which are always winners
I'd interpret that to mean an eight letter word that doesn't give a nine or any other eight, therefore it's a darren. Or possibly an eight that never gives a nine, no matter what the other letter is. Yes, that makes more sense.Clare Sudbery wrote:Someone linked to this handy page on countdown wiki a while ago, which lists 7-letter words which are never the max (because each one only contains 2 vowels and the addition of any vowel will give you an 8-letter word).
But according to Mark Tournoff's book, there is also an "8s which are always winners" list... and I wondered if anyone could find a link for me (I've tried, but failed)?
If you cut a gandiseeg in half, do you get two gandiseegs or two halves of a gandiseeg?