3x3x3 - Not Lifelike for Adequate Situations

[Werebear]

Boy, I hate these... mostly because I'm not good at them, but I can't help trying to do them. Here's ONE. *Grin*

India, Invisible, Well - Ink

Werebear

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Time flies like the wind. Fruit-flies like a banana.

[Quailman]

Might as well post the list within this thread, not that I have anything to contribute right now.

angle
bitter
blank
chance
charity
chicken
city
gag
hammer
human
hurricane
india
invisible
jack
lip
man
mate
original
post
potato
red
saturated
shade
slippers
sum
tax
well

[Quailman]

Except maybe
FAT: Saturated, Chance, Lip
CHECK: Blank, Sum, Mate

[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 04-23-2002 01:35 PM).]

[Werebear]

Hurricane, Shade, Post - Lamp

[Logain]

Well...since it's been posted, I might as well add what I've got. I started this last night and I feel close...but not sure:

Unused
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human
well

Level 1
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check(blank,mate,sum)
ruby(red,slippers,jack)
fat(saturated,lip,chance)
light(shade,post,invisible)
order(tax,gag,original)
rubber(hammer,chicken,india)
sweet(potato,bitter,charity)
weather(man,hurricane,???)
wide(city,angle,???)

Level 2
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Tuesday(ruby,fat,...)

[Werebear]

Hmmm... alternate list -

Chance, Saturated, Lip -Fat
Red, Slippers, Jack - ruby
Mate, Blank, Sum - Check
Hurricane, Post, Shade - Lamp
India, Invisible, Well - Ink
Tax, Gag, Originals - Order
Potato, Bitter, Charity - Sweet

UNUSED
Angle, Chicken, City, Hammer, Human, Man
(edit - not sure if CheckSum is a real word)

Werebear

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Time flies like the wind. Fruit-flies like a banana.

[This message has been edited by Werebear (edited 04-23-2002 01:49 PM).]

[Werebear]

along with the above, hammer, human, man - head.
That leaves Angle, City, Chicken. Oops.

Werebear

[Orbiting]

How about:

Chance, Saturated, Lip -Fat
Red, Slippers, Jack - ruby
Mate, Blank, Sum - Check
Hurricane, Post, Shade - Lamp
India, Invisible, Well - Ink
Tax, Original, City - Sin
Potato, Bitter, Charity - Sweet

UNUSED
Angle, Chicken, Gag, Hammer, Human, Man

[Werebear]

Oh, BTW, the perfect third for "Tuesday" would have been "Prince", from Mr. Rogers. *G*

Werebear

[Werebear]

WORDS THAT GO WITH CHICKEN...
Liver, Lips, Rubber, Run, Coop, Spring, Farmer, Egg, Little, Funky, House, Fried, Salad, Super, Pox, Wire, SanDiego, Feed (yes, I know some are pretty far stretches...)

[makemeok]

angle, gag, hammer - reflex?

reflex, lamp, ?? - arc?

super also goes with human and man...

[Quailman]

What about chicken$h1t? Except I don't see two other matches for that one...

[Werebear]

Well, we already have Head Order, Headlamp, and Fathead.

Werebear

[Orbiting]

OK then:

Chance, Saturated, Lip -Fat
Red, Slippers, Jack - ruby
Mate, Blank, Sum - Check
Hurricane, Post, Shade - Lamp
India, Invisible, Well - Ink
Tax, Original, City - Sin
Potato, Bitter, Charity - Sweet
Chicken, Human, Man - Super
Angle, Gag, Hammer - Reflex

So then you got
Super, Ruby, Fat - Tuesday
...

[Werebear]

Lamp, Sin, Reflex - Base?

[Quailman]

Just a thought on the first level:

Chance, Chicken, Lip -Fat

Saturated, Human, Man - Super

It doesn't change the next level, but I think it is a bit neater.

[Werebear]

ooooh, Quailman! nice job!

[Werebear]

Here's what we have so far (let's hope we're really at level 2!)

Fat
ruby
Super -- TUESDAY

Check
Lamp
Ink
Sin
Sweet
Reflex

Lamp - floor, lava, magic, Aladdin's, brass, oi, gas, propane, table, bulb?
Ink - Blot, Laster, Ribbon, Jet, Black?
Check - Point, Bag, Over, Point, Reality, double, Out?
Reflex - Automatic, conditioned, time, -ive, acid, test, base, instant

...did I mention I hate these things?

Werebear

[makemeok]

check, ink, sweet - spot

[Orbiting]

leaving us with:
Reflex, Sin, Lamp - ARC?

[Quailman]

Reflex ARC, Arcsin, Arc Lamp

Rats. I see Orbiting just posted this.

[Quailman]

Black Tuesday (9/11/01), Black Spot (Leaf affliction), Black Arc????

Of course this was first posted long before 9/11.

[ZutAlors!]

Tuesday WELD, spotWELD, arc WELD

[Werebear]

ummm.. what's a Tuesday weld? *confuzzled look*

[ZutAlors!]

Try WHO was Tuesday Weld. Or look her up at the IMDB.

[This message has been edited by ZutAlors! (edited 04-23-2002 04:46 PM).]

[Snatch]

Black Tuesday, black spot, black ink - Black could be right still...

[Quailman]

Ink was a second-round word. For the last round, the words were ARC, TUESDAY and SPOT

[Quailman]

I typed this for your original new topic, fetus, so here's the explanation you requested.

A tribond is 3 words that go together with a fourth common word. An example might be Corn, Steak, and Black, which all match up with Pepper. The match may come before or after.

A 3x3 takes that to the next level, by giving nine words that represent three tribonds. An example might be Dog, Cob, Sweet, Cube, House, Round, Eye, Lamp, Plague. The first, second and third groups of three would lead to the words in the previous example. Of course, the list is generally alphabetized. The tricky part is determining how the words are grouped.

A 3x3x3 has 27 words which must be whittled down to 9 and then 3 and then 1 final answer. It gets more difficult as there are often multiple possible combinations that seem to fit. But there's generally only one right way to get to the final answer. When posted in the VSP forum, the person who wrote it generally posts progress as tribonds ae solved.

If the puzzle is clean, the constructor won't reuse words in any round. This isn't a rule, though, since these were created in the GL.

Does this help?

[edit: STOP DELETING POSTS, Fetus!]

[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 04-26-2002 01:34 PM).]

[fetus]

ok, ok, sorry. i started to get the hang of it by reading the suggestions to this puzzle. thanks for the help though!

[cyberthug_assassin]

um can someone explain how to do these.
i m relatively new
but if i knew how to go about solving it then that would help
appreciate it

[cyberthug_assassin]

oh maybe i should have read the thing by quailman
well ill set to it
even though this is my typing class time

[Mr. E]

hurricane, human, jack- eye
angle, sum, tax- math
hammer, city, man- carpender
red(sea), saturated(liquid that cannot dissolve the solute), India(ocean)- water
mate, gag, lip- sex
potatoe, bitter, chicken- food

[Mr. E]

invisible, shade, slippers- concealment
post, well, original- ornament

[groza528]

Quail's example has been driving me nuts. Has anybody come up with a second word to go with 'bubonic?'

[Werebear]

Mr. E

First: 3x3 puzzles are not solved in the fashion you were attempting. The word that makes up the set of three is not a word RELATED to the three, like in your example of "Invisible, Shade, Slippers" relating to CONCEALMENT. The word that binds the set is a word that can be attached to the three, such as "Chance, Saturated, Lip" giving the word "Fat" - Fat Lip, Saturated Fat, Fat Chance, or "Hurricace, Post, Shade" giving the word "Lamp" - Lamppost, Hurricane Lamp, Lamp Shade". The keyword and the hint words combine.

Second: the puzzle has been solved. You may feel free to solve it yourself, of course, that's why we try and put answers invisible - so as not to spoil the fun for those who wish to try it on their own. Merely highlight the post, or edit it, and you will see the invisible text - which will prove or disprove your personal answer.

Third: Once a puzzle has been solved, people are not really interested in helping someone solve it. The solution is contained in the messages above. If you think the answer is wrong because you have achieved an answer of your own, or if you have a better solution, or if you don't understand how the answer was gotten, that would be a good time to post.

Please don't be discouraged, most of these puzzles are solved as a team, one person building off another's work. I have great respect for one who decides to tackle these on their own.

Werebear

[Werebear]

Ummm.. groza... Quail's answer is right there in the post, in bold.

quote:

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A tribond is 3 words that go together with a fourth common word. An example might be Corn, Steak, and Black which all match up with Pepper.

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A 3x3 takes that to the next level, by giving nine words that represent three tribonds. An example might be Dog, Cob, Sweet, Cube, House, Round, Eye, Lamp, Plague.
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Werebear

[groza528]

So it is. I didn't realize the original tribond was the same as the following 3x3. Of course I was attempting a joke, because black clearly goes with plague rather than bubonic, but I still didn't notice. Thanks Flea Motel.

[Mr. E]

Thanks Werebear I did not realize the puzzle was solved. Also, this was my first attempt at 3x3x3's puzzle.

[Werebear]

No problem, Mr. E - you might want to check out the 3x3 puzzles in the main puzzle archive here...

[benisbest]

ok guys this is my first time at this but i thought up some more answers for the first level but they dont quite jive whith what evryone else has buti thought id just throw them out here it goes

being(bitter, human, well)
head(potato, chicken, hammer)
fat(saturated, lip, chance)