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Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

I sat next to a lady on an airplane recently who presented me with two puzzles. I wouldn't let her give me the answers. I asked for her email address and smugly asserted that I would email her the answers within a week. It's been a month. I haven't solved either and I've lost her email. You probably can't help me with the email part, but maybe you can help me with the puzzles:

1. What three letter combination begins the most words in the English language? (e.g. WAN_ = want, wand, wane, etc.)

2. The word NEWS contains the initial letters of "North, east, west, and south". What other common group of four starts with these letters? Hint: The "N" represents a two-word name.
Proper nouns are OK.

Sofis · Beautiful and Decadent

2. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

[This message has been edited by Sofis (edited 04-21-2002 12:49 PM).]

wordcross · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 6:12 pm Post subject: 3

1) "THE" This sounds like one of those riddles that has nothing to do with the question it seems to be asking, but rather the structure of the sentence.

Infintessimal IQ · Daedalian Member

Can a month go by without someone posting that riddle?
Obviously not

Pablo · Never Draws a Blank

OK - I'm an idiot. I haven't been tuning in to VSP obviously. I always was annoyed when someone posted a puzzle that was already stale from overexposure. So, I apologize and will take my consequence of being humiliated and will search through the old threads for the answer.