Q: Starting in Montana, you can drive into South Dakota and then into Iowa. Those three states have the postal abbreviations MT, SD, and IA — whose letters can be rearranged to spell AMIDST. The challenge is to do this with four connected states to make an eight-letter word. That is, start in a certain state, drive to another, then another, and then another. Take the postal abbreviations of the four states you visit, mix the letters up, and use them to spell a common eight-letter word. Can you do this?I'm using a list of states directly connected by physical roads/bridges. This leaves out states that might legally touch on a map (e.g. UT-NM, AZ-CO, MI-MN, NY-RI, etc.). But even still, I'm not convinced there is only one answer. I guess it comes down to your definition of "common".
Edit: Unless there is some further restriction, I have at least 6 words that I consider common, 3 more if you allow an added S.
A: Common words:animator (IA-MO-AR-TN) condemns (SD-NE-CO-NM) diamonds (ND-SD-IA-MO) diocesan (SD-IA-NE-CO) dioramas (SD-IA-MO-AR) flagrant (AR-TN-GA-FL) nominate (NE-IA-MO-TN) ornament (AR-TN-MO-NE) ransomed (SD-NE-MO-AR) Less common words:contused (UT-CO-NE-SD) diaphone (IN-OH-PA-DE) eduction (ID-UT-CO-NE) galavant (GA-AL-TN-VA) magneton (NE-MO-TN-GA) mediants (MT-SD-NE-IA) moleskin (NE-KS-MO-IL) moralism (IL-MO-AR-MS) nomadism (SD-MN-IA-MO) nonmetal (NE-MO-TN-AL) saintdom (SD-IA-MO-TN) tangrams (MS-AR-TN-GA) Uncommon words:coenamor (CO-NE-MO-AR) domaines (SD-NE-IA-MO) makimono (NM-OK-MO-IA) martagon (MO-AR-TN-GA) matronal (MO-AR-TN-AL) monecian (CO-NE-IA-MN) takingly (IL-KY-TN-GA)
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Thursday deadline. Thank you.
I am foggy on this one – just too many possibilities to check out. I have an answer, the word is a real one, but not common. I am searching no more.
ReplyDeleteI have an answer with an uncommon word also.
DeleteI now have two answers, one, a "common" word.
DeleteI have six answers... I will not look for more.
DeleteI have one word that is defined by a more common word. Not sure acceptable but sent in.
DeleteI posted on Sun Jan 31, at 06:05:00 AM PST on last week's thread:
ReplyDeleteStart with the postal abbreviation of the starting state, append, in order, the abbreviations of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th states. Now break that string into just a few chunks and rearrange those chunks to get the word. When you discover the answer, you'll be amazed how FEW chunks it takes!
Two surprises this morning. Surprise #1 was the small number of correct entries for cutie-pie. Surprise #2 was that the route to my answer was independent of interstate traffic. Like Blaine, I expect alternate answers to be found. I assume ron is on the case.
ReplyDeleteI have 11 valid words so far, with 6 that I'd consider common.
DeleteAlmost like postal codes and the USPS, the answer is something of a lost art.
ReplyDeleteI could probably think of a non-TMI hint, but I'd rather not monkey with it.
ReplyDeleteIf proper nouns are allowed, I have an geographic answer that I'm partial to.
ReplyDeleteYour award for this is a lapel pin IF you are chosen.
ReplyDeleteIs CovidNut a word?
ReplyDeleteIf not, it should be. Maybe it will be the 2021 Word of the Year.
ReplyDeleteThrough sheer dumb luck and by a small miracle, I got this very quickly. I've been to three of the states but not the fourth. Given all the possible combinations, I can see how this could drive Blainevillians crazy.
ReplyDeleteHmmm... I wonder if the NPR stations start with a K or W
DeleteOr maybe both...
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ReplyDeleteMy legitimate word is fairly common, especially in certain circles.
DeleteMy answer can rearranged to a legitimate 8-letter word, a proper noun, and a word with mostly foreign connotations.
DeleteI found two common 10-letter words that can be made by driving through 5 states.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle suits me to a t, which if you place in front of the intended answer, you get a word, phonetically that’s very relevant here.
ReplyDeleteMore proof that there is more than one answer, because that is not true for my word.
DeleteThanks for the good wishes, Dr. K. I actually "got" the call about 15 years ago but I was serving on a jury and gave NPR the courtroom number because I had no mobile phone. Of course, the call came when we were at lunch so I missed it. The courtroom staff who answered the phone were thrilled that I had "won," though. -LT
DeleteOuch. That must have hurt. At least you had the courtroom staff's moral support. I got the call about a year ago, after 30 years of submissions. A year later, I'm still a bit incredulous. And, somehow, we're on another thread. As Robert Frost once wrote in anticipation of our digital world, "...way leads on to way."
DeleteHere is--I hope--an oblique clue (to my answer, anyway; there may be other answers): 1929, 1975, 2007, 2013, 2015.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed listening to the on-air puzzle contestant, Gary St. Germain.
Siz, I think you and I have the same answer. (But I’m not so sure that Word Woman or Snipper and I do.) One way of determining that we have the same answer (warning: anagram alert): if you anagram the 8-letter word, among some other anagrammed solutions, you can get someone who’s been fooled.
DeleteDr. K, Not sure I understand your instructions. Can you anagram your answer to a three word phrase for a skinny male bovine?
DeleteNo, Siz, not "a three word phrase for a skinny male bovine," not that I can see. I guess we may have different answers after all. My answer does angram into several different 2- and 3-word phrases. One of the 2-word phrases, as I said above, could be defined as "someone who's been fooled," but any more precise info and I might get Blainesmacked. I'm beginning to think that this puzzle will be Will's Tower of Babel.
DeleteI might have the same answer as Dr. K, if the 2-word phrase applies to only some fooled people and not others. BTW my answer also anagrams to a 2-word phrase for the rectification of persons who have misbehaved.
Delete-LT
Yes, Unknown (LT), we have the same answer.
DeleteThanks for confirming, Dr. K. It was the only common word I could come up and doesn't seem to fit a lot of the clues here so I was beginning to wonder if my route-finding might be flawed. -LT
DeleteUnknown (LT), I was wondering the same about my answer after I'd begun to see all the subsequent posts that seemed to suggest different answers. I won't be surprised if there are several correct answers (above, I called this puzzle "Will's Tower of Babel") , but I wonder how the person or persons at NPR who choose the winner can know all of them. Anyway, best of luck. Not to jinx it, but, maybe, tomorrow, about 3 p.m., the phone will ring, and....
DeleteThanks for the good wishes, Dr. K. I actually "got" the call about 15 years ago but I was serving on a jury and gave NPR the courtroom number because I had no mobile phone. Of course, the call came when we were at lunch so I missed it. The courtroom staff who answered the phone were thrilled that I had "won," though. -LT (mistakenly replied to the preceding post when I first posted this)
DeleteDon't get so worked up. The word is very common... especially right now.
ReplyDeleteMore so last year, right?
DeleteI think last year's answer is the intended one. But there are so many right answers...
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ReplyDeleteI wish eco was here to express the disdain of sensible folks for anagrams.
ReplyDeleteI do like postal codes however, especially ones that can be made into words in order (e.g., CODE and MADE).
There are seven eight-letter ones should you eschew rearranging and try to find them instead.
At least the PM didn't lock himself into the no alternative room.
I have 38 total words at least 20 of which are "common" (I think!). I have one word that I can get with two different paths--the two (unordered) sets of 4 states are not exactly the same, although they overlap. Also, I have (at least) one path that gives two different common words.
ReplyDeleteAnd, several involving 5 states, one for 6 states, and one for 7 states. None for 8 states.
DeleteI have an answer. Maybe I should go for two or three. If that is too much information, Blaine may remove my post.
ReplyDeleteUsing an online list of states that adjoin - excluding boundaries over water - my computer found about 2 dozen paths that make words I know, not counting the same paths in reverse. I didn't think of roads ... but maybe a tractor could do them.
ReplyDeleteI've been slowly checking states with tenuous boundaries. So far all driveable, but not done yet.
DeleteI didn't find quite as many as you guys above, but I have a small word list and a limited vocabulary. So I found 18 with 10 that I would consider common.
ReplyDeleteA straight line between two state capitals is a little over 700 miles and goes through the four answer states.
ReplyDelete(For one of several valid answers.)
DeleteOnly 350 answers last week. This week is easier.
ReplyDeleteI found last week's answer much faster. Had to work today.
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DeleteI remain frustrated. Last week's was truly easy as pie.
DeleteI thought that was surprisingly low, too.
DeleteTeam DDX elected to brute force this one. There are a very large number of neighboring state relationships, but it is a finite set. Crunching and anagramming postal abbreviations provides at least 14 answers with many more "uncommon" words. There is an interesting geographic feature that almost all of these answers have in common. I'll be interested to hear Will's comments as he said he knows of only one answer.
ReplyDeleteDidn't screen "drive to" road maps, but last time I checked, we had not yet erected walls between states, although natural barriers may exist. Do ferries count?
My count so far:
Delete7 common words
3 common plural words
9 less common words
2 less common plural words
7 uncommon words
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28 total
So, Blaine, the question is: Are you going to submit 28 times, or do an all-in=one?
DeleteBlaine, can you confirm that for one the 3 common plural words, that when you appended together, in order, the postal abbreviations for state #'s 1,2,3,4 into a single 8-letter string, you were then amazed to see how few chuncks into which you had to divide it in order to re-arrange them into that plural word?
DeleteYes, that was a spectacular discovery you made
DeleteUsed a 330k word dictionary. The 1.6mm dictionary probably contains a lot of uncommon words. My 14 word screen was words that I have uttered in 63 years or that I can imagine using in a sentence. Toothless anteaters are not among those. Got up to 41 words that I could Google from page 1 of 3. Learned a lot about botany and entomology. Two more pages of results to analyze, but there are way more answers than states if you go uncommon. So many words, yet so few "answers". How does one answer this puzzle?
DeleteI've spent too much time on this. Have a good week folks
ReplyDeleteHere is a common eight-letter word made up of four postal codes for states NOT contiguous but also NOT mixed up: MAINLAND
ReplyDeleteSome time ago, I devised some mnemonic aids with which to remember the names of the state capitals. To remember the 4 state capitals beginning with B, my thought process went "B > the insect bee > bees make honey > 'land flowing with milk and honey' > milk > milkmaids > the land of those maids >>> B > MAIDLAND
DeleteSo the 4 state capitals beginning with B are Boston MA, Boise ID, Baton Rouge LA, and Bismark ND!
I wrote a little program that found 24 words. About 7 of them are quite common. HARD to know the intended answer.
ReplyDeleteToday’s puzzle -- on air.
ReplyDeleteOne answer was PIECE of paper, PIECE of cake.
An alternate answer is SHEET of paper, SHEET of cake.
Let's keep the PIECE. We don't want no SHEET.
DeleteI know what a sheet cake is, but what's a sheet of cake?
DeleteMaybe when someone celebrates their birthday in bed.
DeleteAlso, Will rejected "piece of mind." I wish I had been there to give him a piece of my mind.
DeleteI have been asked, when throwing large parties and events, if I would like to purchase one or two sheets of cake, in addition to a tiered cake.
DeleteMore importantly, I sent it into Lord PuzzleMaster as an alternate answer and he wrote back:
Nice!
I didn’t think of that.
Thanks, Ben.
—Will
So it's a go.
My antipathy to anagrams kicked in strongly with this challenge for some reason, so I have only been reading the posts here.
ReplyDeleteMy equal dislike for Will's giving short-shrift to alternative answers over the years is no secret.
This week seems to be a bonanza for such, over the top even.
After reading about the author of the puzzle, I am thinking some misunderstanding will have to be resolved.
Search his name.
If the dozens of answers claimed so far are correct, then the guy described in this article (copy and paste) seems very unlikely to have submitted it.
Deletehttps://today.cofc.edu/2012/06/12/derrick_niederman/
Or maybe he just didn't think it through. He and Will are buddies and he has submitted puzzles before.
DeleteI looked him up as you suggested. based upon his background, I'm not even close to being in his ballpark. The only analogy I can think of is to wish you all happiness and if not to suggest Lexipro since I happen to be a retired shrink.
ReplyDeleteClark, I agree with you fully on your assessment of this annoying puzzle, but as to your solution to our predicament, wouldn't suicide be a more permanent solution?
DeleteI found a very interesting.article about the author of this puzzle.
DeleteSDB, Suicide has been defined as a very permanent solution to a temporary problem
DeleteI think it was popularized by William Shakespeare.
DeleteSsurprised that Will and Derrick thought they could stare at a map and conclude that there was only one answer when there are so many permutations. Would have thought that Derrick would have been more analytical and written a program. Neighboring state lists abound and then you just need to "connect the dots".
DeleteSpot on. No way Derrick, a math professor, ought to look at a US map, knowing even a little programming, and proclaim only one answer. Please dig a little deeper, Dr. π.
DeleteReminds me of a GAMES MAGAZINE contest. No matter how well you answer, someone has one better.
ReplyDeleteI finally got an answer that works with a common word.
ReplyDeleteSo, what is the analogue of this question that has the longest reasonable solution? With or without repeating a state?
ReplyDeleteI've got a seven state solution. The plural of which you need to enter the country.
DeleteI woke up early this AM after a dream and there before my mind's eye was an eight letter common word. Working backwards, I got the states. Sometimes I don't know how my head works. Some weeks ago, WW told me to let go and back off if a puzzle was a tough one. But what happened this AM is a bit much!!!
ReplyDeleteDid you wake up in the same home in which you fell asleep? Or were you four states away and holding car keys?
DeleteWeird, isn't it?
DeleteI am not saying this is what you experienced, but I do know it is possible you were provided with the solution by one of your spirit guides. You know, the ones you don't believe exist.
DeleteMy spirit guide did exist and is now a spirit...Sigmund Freud!
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DeleteIt goes back to your previous posts even prior to this week.
Deletesdb: I think mine is on vacation lately. I think sometimes the brain works on things like a computer and then spits out the answer at a later time.
DeleteNatasha,
DeleteI do not know for certain, but I do not believe the brain thinks. I believe the brain is simply the organ that allows us to think while we are in the physical body. I wish the scientific community would pay more attention to the evidence that points in this direction, instead of spending so much energy in defending the popular understandings which frequently have no evidence to back them up. Being closed minded is never in our best interest.
SDB: Too bad you are not research person to look into the matter. I feel the same way, that the brain thinks.
DeleteDo you read when you dream? I read interesting books and papers but do not recall them in the morning. New phenomenon for me.
That is very interesting. I have not heard of this phenomenon before. I suspect you are out of your physical body when you are doing this and that your brain is not involved.
DeleteSDB: Oh, I did not this was not common for dreams. I may keep a tablet nearby to record what I have read, if possible. The print is sometimes like it is magnified and large font. I have travel out of body before and seen things as they were happening in places far away. Verified them the next day. Strange.
DeleteFirst sentence is unclear.
DeleteSDB: I did not know that it was unusual to have "reading" dreams. I left out Know. Should proof.
Deletesorry.
I just googled it and most say it is impossible. I love that kind of nonsense by people who think they know about something they know nothing about. Others said they could read while dreaming. I suspect they are asleep and out of body and somehow reading, but I am only guessing. I would like to know more about it from people who experience it.
DeleteSDB: I only know what I experience. Maybe I will be able to write down what I am reading and that may help clarify a bit. I do know that when I have space traveled I saw things things that I would never have know about in any other way. No one seems interested in explaining what this is all about. I just live with it and feel "special". It is so amazing to do these things.
DeleteNatasha,
DeleteI don't know much about the space traveling, but I have known about it. I would love to learn more about it. I do remember an older woman telling a group I attended about finding herself very far out in space and finding it fascinating, but then stopped by an entity who asked: "What are you doing way out here?" She was then directed back to her body. I wish more people would open up about their experiences. One who did was Lord Dowding who is responsible for preventing Hitler from invading England. His is an amazing story. He also was experiencing these kinds of things, but was open about them. Of course the public thought him nuts, but he considered getting this information made public was more important than his role in WWII. Shhhh! Don't tell jan.
Sdb: wow, I need to read about him. Thks. I recall once floating above my bed near the ceiling. It was scary. I have not been in outer space. I just end up somewhere suddenly on earth.
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This woman, I mentioned, described speeding out into space farther than we probably can imagine, and then being confronted and sent back, but gently. She was believable. And, BTW, I am very good at discerning who is a fraud and con artist. I do not understand why so many others do not see through their deceit.
Do you have her name? I also read minds and get messages about future for people. All without asking. Just spontaneous. Have friends from ballet and nursing with similar abilities. Seems we pick up on each other automatically. We can identify others who are similar without asking.
DeleteI do not have her name.
DeleteI have had flying dreams. So may be astral. Fun. That is why like to do leaps in ballet. Flying. Have a ftiend who is nurse and big administrator. She sees a lady ghost who lives in her victorian house. Her son sees her too.
DeleteThere's a 5 state path that makes a pretty reasonable word. And a 6 state path that makes a ... word that's in the dictionary. These involve 11 different states.
ReplyDelete... And a path of 7 different states that makes a 14-letter word that's ... in the dictionary. Well I wouldn't use it, but Google gives it nearly 9 million hits.
ReplyDeleteIn my 6-state and 7-state solutions, if you start each of these two paths with the state that is the last alphabetically of all the states involved in both solutions, then the first five states, in order, are the same for both.
DeleteThe answer became obvious when I went to church.
ReplyDeleteI believe we may have the same answer.
DeleteOne of my answers is churchy, too.
DeleteI found a churchy one too, but didn't think it was 'common'...so I kept going and think I have WS's intended common answer now.
DeleteFlagrant means obvious. A diocesan presides over a church diocese.
Delete<<< What is this icon that suddenly appeared in my search bar? How do I make it disappear?
ReplyDeleteChange the profile photo on your Blogger profile?
DeleteHaha.
DeleteHow do I get it to go away from the search bar?
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DeleteAlso wrote a program for this one and found 51 answers, at least several which I consider common.
ReplyDeleteAlso found several common 5-state words and even a common 7-state word-- although I must add that writing a program made this puzzle very "non-enigmatical" ;)
DeleteWe couldn't find a solution beyond 7 states, although we drove to 14.
DeletePerhaps the bloggers should consider • nondisarmament and continue to fight the good fight?
DDX,
DeleteI would agree, but please do not choose a mace as your weapon of choice so as not to upset the easily rattled Plantsmith.
DDX, you clever little bastard! I thought you had actually slipped the 14-solution to 7 states into your last post - and, in fact, NONDISARMAMENT is obtainable with a journey through 7 states.
DeleteOnly NONDISARMAMENT has NO ENTRY in Wiktionary! It has DISARMAMENT, but not NONDISARMAMENT.
I didn't say it was an answer. The blog spell check wasn't buying it either. I just used it in a sentence. And apparently the negative form of disarmament conveyed some meaning since I got some responses. We switched from nondisarmament to disarmament last week with the SALT extension.
DeleteTo use a double negative, the 7 state solutions can be non-nonenigmatically found in this forum. There is one real one. I was just rounding out the 3 possibilities.
DeleteBTW, I am the father of the clever little bastard. CLB's are handy when you need one.
DeleteAnd you are a CLB for noticing and reverse engineering.
DeleteTalks like a word, walks like a word. Maybe it's a word?
DeleteI have been roaming around my house, with my head in the clouds, thinking about this eight letter word. Happy to have finally arrived with a solution, without driving myself crazy.
ReplyDeletePoops. I keep second guessing my word. The spelling is not so common, and the hints here all point elsewhere. I actually am driving myself crazy with this puzzle. Which is great! It's a fun one this week.
DeleteI was getting sick of monkeying around and almost gave up.
ReplyDeleteFinally, I got the answer. I was beginning to conspicuously doubt my puzzle solving ability. Here's a hint: Red Skelton.
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ReplyDeleteDon't recall removing the comment and don't recall what the comment was.
DeleteI happen to enjoy a difficult puzzle. Well, at least if it is also presenting a nice reward at having solved it by employing (at $15 an hour) a little logic in the process. So, this one certainly meets the first requirement, but I am not exactly Basqueing in the effulgent warmth of the second. All I can really say about this puzzle is that it is well stated.
ReplyDeleteCanadians are nothing but a bunch of stockey hicks.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Mr Malaprop
ReplyDeleteI think you may have me confused with someone else. I am Mr. Spoonerism. Good mourning anyway.
DeleteYou may have noticed Dr. Fauci
ReplyDeleteis becoming just a bit grouchy.
——So let's cut the gab,
——and now take the jab.
It's only a little bit ouchy.
And as to you violent men,
if you really want normalcy then,
——cut out the crap,
——and take of the cap.
and make America great again.
I was struggling to do this in my head until I could finally sit in front of a computer and call up a map, and it was smooth sailing from there.
ReplyDeleteTry THIS MAP.
DeleteNice map. I did mine the old-fashioned way and wrote in the postal abbreviations.
DeleteBy Emi Loca.
ReplyDeleteAmazing mace, how sweet the sound
Of spraying dyed debris
It does cause loss to those who hound,
Does blind those tailing me.
It's mace that I keep in my purse
Where others would keep keys
When strangers try to talk, converse
I give my mace a squeeze!
It's mace that all my stalkers fear
The purple, burning foam
How precious did that mace appear
When I was followed home.
This man, he claimed to know me well
I doubted what he said
So when he spoke, I gave him hell
And now his eyes are red.
Though some may call me paranoid
I say, I've just begun
All public contact I'll avoid
('Til I get my handgun!)
Oh, pepper spray, how I praise thee!
You keep men in their place
Thank Jesus for small weaponry -
Thank God's a-macing grace!
Yes you keep men in their place.
ReplyDeleteI'm imagining a 3-word headline tomorrow, with a structure, an answer to this puzzle, and a color.
ReplyDelete“...’tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.”
DeleteSomething tells me that the PuzzleMaster is holding on to at least ten variants already, including a five-state variant.
ReplyDeleteLike others, I went back to the map and (more) quickly found another answer (that I’m sure is included in the variants noted above). In this one, the jumbling is less complex - no commingling of state postal codes - just switching the order of the 2 letters in 3 of them.
ReplyDeleteNot very happy w my solution: Wiktionary calls the word "dated" ... but the time approaches so here goes.
ReplyDeleteHey, JeremyC, it took me until Tuesday, but I urge you to investigate my clue: Red Skelton.
DeleteI got "takingly" (IL, KY, TN, GA) which at least a few others got. Then I stopped looking. Some of the answers are better ... clearly there were more than one possibility.
DeleteO.k., here's another hint: A certain actor whose name has been referred to in the last few months has also given a "patriotic" screed on this subject.
ReplyDeleteReferred to in this forum as a puzzle answer, that is.
ReplyDeleteDo OILMEN eat LOMEIN in MOLINE? (IL, MO, NE)
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't sound AMORAL. Arkansas...well, you can figure it out
DeleteAfter hitting my head against the wall since Sunday, the answer (or at least an answer) came to me. :-(
ReplyDelete...My head became CONTUSED (UT+CO+NE+SD).
DeleteANIMATOR from Iowa (IA), Missouri (MO), Arkansas (AR), Tennessee (TN)
ReplyDeleteFLAGRANT from Florida (FL), Georgia (GA),Arkansas (AR), Tennessee (TN)
NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, NEBRASKA, SOUTH DAKOTA—> NM + CO + NE + SD—>CONDEMNS
ReplyDeleteOne of many possible answers, it seems, and I’m interested to see the other solutions and their clues’ explanations.
My first clue: “could drive Blainevillians crazy” —> Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills, South Dakota
My second clue: “1929, 1975, 2007, 2013, 2015” —> release years for various films titled “(The) Condemned”
Third clue: The anagram of “condemns” I hinted at—“someone who’s been fooled”—was “conned ms.”
Unknown’s anagrammatic “2-word phrase for the rectification of persons who have misbehaved” was “cons mend,” which further convinced me we had the same answer.
I considered as a musical clue “the Beatles” (—>”Rocky Raccoon”—> ”Somewhere in the black mining [or is it ‘mountain’?] hills of Dakota…”) but thought better of it.
Note also that "our" solution can be created from the other direction too, using MN in place of NM. We should get extra credit, no? Glad to hear you already got the call last year -- after 30 years you were more than entitled. BTW we ended up on a different thread yesterday due to my bad in replying to the wrong one. But Frost still had it right. -LT
Delete(PS Amazing number of indisputably common words I managed to miss, even using an anagrammer! Quite chagrining but a fitting illustration of the proficiency of Blainesvillians.)
I completely missed the MN solution. I think that after I solved it quickly but then learned that there were multiple answers (what Will say about that?), I simply sat back to watch the verbal fur fly.
DeleteIt's also interesting how many of the common-word solutions (e.g. CONDEMNS, DIAMONDS, and a bunch more of ron's solutions) include SD and/or IA, which are also contained in the "amidst" example in the prompt. One wouldn't normally expect to see that, another feature that makes this week's puzzle somewhat anomalous. -LT
DeleteCO, NE, SD, IA --> DIOCESAN
ReplyDelete《Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa》
The letters can also be arranged to spell the proper noun OCEANIDS and the Portuguese word for cocaines or CODEINAS.
FLAGRANT
ReplyDeleteMATCHMEN
GALAVANT
MORALISM
CO + NE + SD + MN -> CONDEMNS
ReplyDelete> A straight line between two state capitals is a little over 700 miles and goes through the four answer states.
Yup.
> I'm imagining a 3-word headline tomorrow, with a structure, an answer to this puzzle, and a color.
I was hoping for "HOUSE CONDEMNS GREENE".
So was I. Hence, the quote from Hamlet.
DeleteCONDEMNS can go through either of two states: Minnesota (MN) or New Mexico (NM).
DeleteSo I've learned, ron, from Unknown.
Deletejan, HOUSE CONDEMNS GREENE was a delight.
Delete1. North Dakota (ND) to South Dakota (SD) to Iowa (IA) to Missouri (MO) → NDSDIAMO → DIAMONDS. The “intended answer” ?
ReplyDelete2. South Dakota (SD) to Iowa (IA) to Missouri (MO) to Tennessee (TN) → SDIAMOTN → SAINTDOM
3. South Dakota (SD) to Minnesota (MN) to Iowa (IA) to Missouri (MO) → SDMNIAMO → NOMADISM
4. Illinois (IL) to Missouri (MO) to Arkansas (AR) to Mississippi (MS) → ILMOARMS → MORALISM
5. South Dakota (SD) to Nebraska (NE) to Iowa (IA) to Minnesota (MN) → SDNEIAMN → SANDMINE
6. South Dakota (SD) to Nebraska (NE) to Iowa (IA) to Missouri (MO) → SDNEIAMO → DOMAINES
7. Idaho (ID) to Utah (UT) toColorado (CO) to Nebraska (NE) → IDUTCONE → EDUCTION
8. Utah (UT) to Colorado (CO) to Nebraska (NE) to South Dakota (SD) → UTCONESD → CONTUSED
9. Georgia (GA) to Tennessee (TN) to Kentucky (KY) to Illinois (IL) → GATNKYIL → TAKINGLY
10. Louisiana (LA) to Arkansas (AR) to Missouri (MO) to Illinois (IL) → LAARMOIL → AMARILLO
The hell is a sandmine?
DeleteIf he drove the other direction would have gotten sandmite
DeleteI wrote, “I am foggy on this one – just too many possibilities to check out.” Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana produce DIAPHONE, the noisemaker within a foghorn.
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DeleteRob: I liked your clue. I knew I had the correct answer when I read it.
DeleteOh, how nice. Yes, it's good to get that sort of confirmation from a hint that gives no one else a clue where to look.
DeleteHere is what I submitted last Sunday, and a few additional notes at the end. For 4 states, I have a total of 54 words, of which at least 25 are common words.
ReplyDeleteSubmitted: We list solutions for 4, 5, 6, and 7 states. In each case, we give a word, followed by a sequence of distinct states so that one could drive from one to the next in the order given. A few words occur twice because there are paths between distinct (unordered) sets of states that give the same word. All words are in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, and so are considered to be common words.
Four states (27 path/word combos, 25 distinct words, 24 distinct paths):
ANIMATOR, AR, TN, MO, IA
CONDEMNS, CO, NE, SD, MN (there are two paths to get this word)
CONDEMNS, NM, CO, NE, SD (there are two paths to get this word)
CONTUSED, UT, CO, NE, SD
DIAMONDS, MO, IA, SD, ND
DIAPHONE, DE, PA, OH, IN
DIOCESAN, CO, NE, IA, SD
DIORAMAS, AR, MO, IA, SD
EDUCTION, ID, UT, CO, NE
FLAGRANT, AR, TN, GA, FL
GALAVANT, AL, GA, TN, VA
MADRONES, AR, MO, NE, SD (same path also gives RANSOMED)
MAGNETON, GA, TN, MO, NE
MAKIMONO, IA, MO, OK, NM (there are two paths to get this word)
MAKIMONO, MN, IA, MO, OK (there are two paths to get this word)
MEDIANTS, MT, SD, IA, NE
MOLESKIN, NE, KS, MO, IL
MONADISM, MO, IA, SD, MN (same path also gives NOMADISM)
MORALISM, MS, AR, MO, IL
NOMADISM, MO, IA, SD, MN (same path also gives MONADISM)
NOMINATE, IA, NE, MO, TN
NONMETAL, AL, TN, MO, NE
ORNAMENT, AR, TN, MO, NE
RANSOMED, AR, MO, NE, SD (same path also gives MADRONES)
SAINTDOM, TN, MO, IA, SD
TANGRAMS, AR, MS, TN, GA (same path also gives TRANGAMS)
TRANGAMS, AR, MS, TN, GA (same path also gives TANGRAMS)
Five states (12 path/word combos, 10 distinct words, 10 distinct paths):
ADORNMENTS, AR, TN, MO, NE, SD
ALKALINITY, AL, TN, KY, IL, IA
ALKYLATING, AL, GA, TN, KY, IL
DECISIONAL, CO, NE, SD, IA, IL (same path also gives LIDOCAINES)
DEDUCTIONS, ID, UT, CO, NE, SD (same path also gives DISCOUNTED}
DISCOUNTED, ID, UT, CO, NE, SD (Same path also gives DEDUCTIONS)
DOMINANCES, CO, NE, IA, SD, MN (there are two paths to get this word)
DOMINANCES, NM, CO, NE, IA, SD (there are two paths to get this word)
EDUCATIONS, UT, CO, NE, IA, SD
LIDOCAINES, CO, NE, SD, IA, IL (same path also gives DECISIONAL)
ORNAMENTAL, AL, AR, TN, MO, NE (there are two paths to get this word)
ORNAMENTAL, LA, AR, TN, MO, NE (there are two paths to get this word)
Six states:
ELUCIDATIONS, UT, CO, NE, SD, IA, IL
Seven states:
DOCUMENTATIONS, UT, CO, NE, SD, IA, MO, TN
The line above is the end of what I submitted. I also had, but did not submit, the following, because I could not find the words in MW Coll 11th--9 different words:
AMIDONES, MO, IA, SD, NE (same path also gives DAIMONES and DOMAINES)
CODEINAS, CO, NE, IA, SD (same path also gives DIOCESAN, listed above because DIOCESAN is in MW Coll 11th)
COENAMOR, AR, MO, NE, CO
DAIMONES, MO, IA, SD, NE (same path also gives AMIDONES and DOMAINES)
MARTAGON, GA, TN, AR, MO
MATRONAL, AL, TN, MO, AR (there are two paths to get this word)
MATRONAL, TN, MO, AR, LA (there are two paths to get this word)
MONECIAN, CO, NE, IA, MN (there are two paths to get this word)
MONECIAN, NM, CO, NE, IA (there are two paths to get this word)
OOMIACKS, CO, KS, MO, IA
TAKINGLY, GA, TN, KY, IL
After submitting, I found 20 more words for 4 states in the Collins Scrabble Words (2019) file:
AMIDMOST, ANTINOME, DOMAINES, DONATISM, LIMATION, MILTONIA, MONAMINE, MONILIAE, MONOMARK, MONTARIA, NOMADIES, NOMADISE, OCEANIDS, ROADSMEN, STALLMAN, TAMANOIR, TENORMAN, TIDESMAN, TORMINAL, UNSOCKET
Bottom line, I found a total of 54 distinct words for 4 states. Some words come from more than one path; some paths give more than one word. E.g., IA, MO, NE, SD gives AMIDONES, DAIMONES, DOMAINES, NOMADIES, and NOMADISE.
Additional words for 5 states:
AMPHICTYON, EXAMINATOR, MINATORIAL, NONMARKETS
Additional words for 6 states:
MAMILLATIONS, NANOMATERIAL, SALAMANDROID
Very nice! And my wordlist, from Google ages ago, also did include NONDISARMAMENT. Additional words for 8 states: ADMINISTRATIONAL with 2 repeats and 3 path orders, plus MALADMINISTRATOR with a unique path but 1 repeat. Can't figger how to use any of those in a sentence ... except that I just did.
DeleteNicely done, FloridaGuy.
DeleteAnd glad to hear some support for my prior "nondisarmement" post. This was fun, but Will has his work cut out for him. Can't wait for 8:42 EST.
How about : ESKIMOAN and MIDCOUNT?
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DeleteI myself looked up MIDCOUNT in Wiktionary asking myself "Why didn't Andy's anagram solver display MIDCOUNT?"
DeleteThe answer: Wiktionary does not recognize MIDCOUNT!
It does recognize Eskimoan; but I just capitalized it for a good reason - it's a proper adjective.
P.S.: I just re-did this post, and in so doing had to re-do all the tags and links, just to replace "proper noun" with "proper adjective".
I knew “midcount” wasn’t in the usual dictionaries, but it’s easy to use in a sentence and does spell-check to “mid-count” on an iPhone. I also figured Eskimoan was a bit obscure so I kept on looking until I found “flagrant”
DeleteWhat follows is pretty close to my submission, although my two "4th answers" and my 5th answer I had not figured out until AFTER I submitted to NPR. Also, my submission did NOT include NONDISARMAMENT.
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1st answer: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri ==> ND,SD,IA,MO ==> NDS, DIAMO ==> DIAMONDS
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2nd answer: Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa ==> TN,AR,MO,IA ==> ANIMATOR
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3rd answer: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas ==> FL,GA,TN,AR ==> FLAGRANT
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4th answer: Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama ==> MO,AR,TN,AL ==> MATRONAL
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4th answer: Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisianna ==> MO,TN,AR,LA ==> MATRONAL
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5th answer: Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota ==> CO,NE,IA,SD ==> CODEINAS or DIOCESAN or OCEANIDS or ODACINES or ONCAEIDS
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6th answer: Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska ==> ID,UT,CO,NE ==> EDUCTION
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7th answer: Deleawre, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiannapolis ==> DE,PA,OH,IN ==> DIAPHONE
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Common 10-letter words from journeys through 5 states:
Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota ==> ID,UT,CO,NE,SD ==> DEDUCTIONS or DISCOUNTED
Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota ==> UT,CO,NE,IA,SD ==> EDUCATIONS
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The following 14-letter word does NOT have an entry in Wiktionary, but without the NON prefix it does:
South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee ==> SD,MN,IA,NE,MO,AR,TN ==> NONDISARMAMENT
SD,MN,IA,NE,MO,AR,TN
.. .N .. .. .. .. .. N
.. .. .. .. .O .. .. O
.. .. .. N. .. .. .. N
.D .. .. .. .. .. .. D
.. .. I. .. .. .. .. I
S. .. .. .. .. .. .. S
.. .. .A .. .. .. .. A
.. .. .. .. .. .R .. R
.. M. .. .. .. .. .. M
.. .. .. .. .. A. .. A
.. .. .. .. M. .. .. M
.. .. .. .E .. .. .. E
.. .. .. .. .. .. .N N
.. .. .. .. .. .. T. T
Wow, there really are several different answers. Mine was MOLESKIN: NE-KS-MO-IL.
ReplyDeleteflagrant (FL=Florida, GA=Georgia, TN=Tennessee, AR=Arkansas) or diocesan (CO=Colorado, NE=Nebraska, SD=South Dakota, IA=Iowa)
ReplyDeleteBlaine's answer?
ReplyDeleteThe real puzzle this week is how two clever people like Derrick Niederman and Will Shortz could think there was only one answer to this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteSeriously!
DeleteFun FLAGRANT Fact: 4, 16, 25, 27 -- 3 squares and a cube (see, e.g., https://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/statehood.shtml)
ReplyDeleteGALAVANT
ReplyDelete(uncommon spelling, I know)
VA, TN, AL, GA
This week's edition of Puzzleria! features four fantastic "Econfusions" forged by our friend ecoarchitect. They involve a TV theme song, something found in your house, fairy tale characters, and a puzzle that asks, "What's the past tense of Keanu?"
ReplyDeletePssst!... We upload Puzzleria! tonight at Midnight PST (which means "the wee hours of Friday morning" for many of you).
Our menus this week also include:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week involving gases, passes, basses, ice and mice,
* a green puzzle Slice (no, it's not mouldy!),
* a Super Bowl halftime Dessert, and
* seven riff-offs of this past week's NPR border-crossing challenge.
All are welcome!
Speaking of the NPR puzzle...
I, after road-tripping through IA, SD, NE and CO submitted DIOCESAN, which was fitting because I toiled at a diocesan newspaper in Minnesota for 17 years. I had earlier come up with CAMEROON (another middle-America excursion) but rejected it on "No-Proper-Noun Grounds." Before that I ventured to the New England area and came up with the great word ACRIMONY, after tooling through Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York before, alas to my dismay, recalling that Connecticut's postal code is CT, not CO (sorry about that, Word Woman)!
LegoWhoSaysThatIfYouEnjoyGoingPostalWithYourPuzzlingYouMayEnjoyThis“MemorialDayWeekendSlice:MementoMori”ThatICreatedForAVeryEarlyEditionOfPuzzleria!
I submitted RANSOMED by navigating through AR, MO, NE, SD.
ReplyDeleteMy clue was when I wrote that Something tells me that the PuzzleMaster is holding on to at least ten variants already.
I got FLAGRANT, also. As an answer, not...well, you know. My hint with Red Skelton was in reference to a bit that he did on the Pledge of Allegiance. Sort of a flag-rant. John Wayne had a more "patriotic" flag-rant.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the winner is selected. If just have a time and date for the lottery selection and the answer is one of the one's on Blaine's list,for example, would it be selected as the winner. Otherwise, they will have to go through lots of different answers to get the one they had in mind. So many possible correct answers.
ReplyDeleteDidn't get the call, but this was my "answer".
ReplyDeleteI'll follow up with raw data.
I realized that if I kept messing around with it, I might forget to submit my answer. I'll post my raw data separately, but it looks a lot like other posts.
I am only going to submit 8 answers, although I have scores more, some of which are arguably common.
Perhaps the intended answer is nominate?
galavant AL GA TN VA
ransomed AR MO NE SD
animator AR TN MO IA
flagrant AR TN GA FL
ornament AR TN MO NE
condemns CO NE SD MN
nominate IA NE MO TN
diamonds MO IA SD ND
All my answers, submitted or not are driveable.
You can't drive from KY to MO without going through IL, but KY is not part of any of my answers.
In fact, based on my research, KY-MO are the only non-drive contiguous states.
You have to go through Cairo IL at the confluence of the OH & MS rivers.
Interestingly, all of my state combinations touch the Mississippi River.
Surprised that the coasts were so under-represented: New England, Upper Midwest and the West, except CO were no-shows.
7 state solutions might include, depending on commonality:
documentations
nondisarmament
nonenigmatical
Semi-common words:
ReplyDeletemoralism MS AR MO IL
nonmetal AL TN MO NE
Cameroon AR MO NE CO
dioramas AR MO IA SD
diocesan IA SD NE CO
nomadism MO IA SD MN
4096 character data dump. 1 of 2?
ReplyDeleteDuplicates exist because reverse paths were not excluded.
AL TN MO IA alamonti
IA MO TN AL alamonti
IL MO IA SD alismoid
MO IL IA SD alismoid
SD IA MO IL alismoid
SD IA IL MO alismoid
IL MO AR LA amarillo
LA AR MO IL amarillo
MO IA SD MT amidmost
MT SD IA MO amidmost
AR MO NE CO cameroon coenamor
CO NE MO AR cameroon coenamor
CO NE SD MN condemns
MN SD NE CO condemns
NM CO NE SD condemns
SD NE CO NM condemns
SD NE CO UT contused ctenodus
UT CO NE SD contused ctenodus
MO IA SD ND diamonds
ND SD IA MO diamonds
DE PA OH IN diaphone
IN OH PA DE diaphone
CO NE IA SD codeinas diocesan
CO NE SD IA codeinas diocesan
IA SD NE CO codeinas diocesan
SD IA NE CO codeinas diocesan
IL IA NE SD disilane
IL IA SD NE disilane
NE SD IA IL disilane
SD NE IA IL disilane
ID UT CO NE eduction
NE CO UT ID eduction
MO NE CO NM encommon
NM CO NE MO encommon
AR MO NE IA eromania
AR MO IA NE eromania
IA NE MO AR eromania
NE IA MO AR eromania
AR TN GA FL flagrant
FL GA TN AR flagrant
AL GA TN VA galavant
GA AL TN VA galavant
VA TN GA AL galavant
VA TN AL GA galavant
AR MO IL IN limnoria
IN IL MO AR limnoria
Dump 2 of 2
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MT ID OR CA mactroid
IA MO OK NM makimono
MN IA MO OK makimono
NM OK MO IA makimono
OK MO IA MN makimono
AR MO TN GA martagon
GA TN MO AR martagon
GA TN AR MO martagon
MO AR TN GA martagon
AL TN MO AR matronal
AL TN AR MO matronal
AR MO TN AL matronal
LA AR MO TN matronal
LA AR TN MO matronal
MO AR TN AL matronal
MO TN AR LA matronal
TN MO AR LA matronal
IA IL MO TN limation miltonia
IL IA MO TN limation miltonia
TN MO IA IL limation miltonia
TN MO IL IA limation miltonia
IL MO NE KS moleskin
IL MO KS NE moleskin
KS NE MO IL moleskin
NE KS MO IL moleskin
MN IA MO NE monamine
MN IA NE MO monamine
MO NE IA MN monamine
NE MO IA MN monamine
CO NE IA MN monecian
IA NE CO NM monecian
MN IA NE CO monecian
NM CO NE IA monecian
CO NE MO IA monoecia
CO NE IA MO monoecia
IA MO NE CO monoecia
MO IA NE CO monoecia
AR MO OK NM monomark
MO AR OK NM monomark
NM OK MO AR monomark
NM OK AR MO monomark
GA TN MO NE magneton montagne
NE MO TN GA magneton montagne
IA MO TN NC monactin montanic
NC TN MO IA monactin montanic
AL TN MO IL montilla
IL MO TN AL montilla
IL MO AR MS moralism
MS AR MO IL moralism
NE CO UT NM nocument
NE CO NM UT nocument
NM UT CO NE nocument
UT NM CO NE nocument
IA MO NE SD daimones nomadise
IA SD NE MO daimones nomadise
MO NE IA SD daimones nomadise
MO NE SD IA daimones nomadise
MO IA NE SD daimones nomadise
MO IA SD NE daimones nomadise
NE MO IA SD daimones nomadise
NE SD IA MO daimones nomadise
SD NE MO IA daimones nomadise
SD NE IA MO daimones nomadise
SD IA MO NE daimones nomadise
SD IA NE MO daimones nomadise
MN SD IA MO monadism nomadism
MO IA SD MN monadism nomadism
MO IA MN SD monadism nomadism
SD MN IA MO monadism nomadism
IA NE MO TN antinome nominate
NE IA MO TN antinome nominate
TN MO NE IA antinome nominate
TN MO IA NE antinome nominate
AL TN MO NE nonmetal
NE MO TN AL nonmetal
CO KS MO IA oomiacks
IA MO KS CO oomiacks
AR TN MO NE ornament
NE MO AR TN ornament
NE MO TN AR ornament
TN AR MO NE ornament
AR MO NE SD madrones ransomed
SD NE MO AR madrones ransomed
SD IA MO TN donatism saintdom
TN MO IA SD donatism saintdom
AR MO IA SD dioramas samaroid
SD IA MO AR dioramas samaroid
AL TN MS LA stallman
LA MS AL TN stallman
LA MS TN AL stallman
TN AL MS LA stallman
GA TN KY IL takingly
IL KY TN GA takingly
AR TN MO IA animator tamanoir
IA MO AR TN animator tamanoir
IA MO TN AR animator tamanoir
TN AR MO IA animator tamanoir
AR OK MO TN tankroom
AR TN MO OK tankroom
MO OK AR TN tankroom
MO TN AR OK tankroom
OK MO AR TN tankroom
OK MO TN AR tankroom
OK AR MO TN tankroom
OK AR TN MO tankroom
TN MO AR OK tankroom
TN MO OK AR tankroom
TN AR MO OK tankroom
TN AR OK MO tankroom
IA NE SD MT mediants sandmite
MT SD NE IA mediants sandmite
MT SD IA NE mediants sandmite
NE IA SD MT mediants sandmite
AR TN MO IL torminal
IL MO AR TN torminal
IL MO TN AR torminal
TN AR MO IL torminal
AR MS TN GA tangrams trangams
GA TN MS AR tangrams trangams
GA TN AR MS tangrams trangams
MS AR TN GA tangrams trangams
AR OK NM UT turkoman
UT NM OK AR turkoman
KS NE CO UT unsocket
NE KS CO UT unsocket
UT CO NE KS unsocket
UT CO KS NE unsocket
And the 7 state solutions are, if you consider them common or uncommon words. Please pardon my duplicates.
ReplyDelete• nondisarmament
• nonenigmatical
• documentations
artnmoneiamnsd: ['nondisarmament']
artnmoneiasdmn: ['nondisarmament']
artnmonesdmnia: ['nondisarmament']
artnmonesdiamn: ['nondisarmament']
artnmoiamnsdne: ['nondisarmament']
artnmoianesdmn: ['nondisarmament']
ganctnmoneiail: ['nonenigmatical']
ganctnmoiliane: ['nonenigmatical']
iamnsdnemotnar: ['nondisarmament']
iamnsdnemoartn: ['nondisarmament']
ilianemotnganc: ['nonenigmatical']
ilianemotnncga: ['nonenigmatical']
mniasdnemotnar: ['nondisarmament']
mniasdnemoartn: ['nondisarmament']
mnsdneiamotnar: ['nondisarmament']
mnsdneiamoartn: ['nondisarmament']
mnsdianemotnar: ['nondisarmament']
mnsdianemoartn: ['nondisarmament']
ncgatnmoneiail: ['nonenigmatical']
ncgatnmoiliane: ['nonenigmatical']
neiailmotnganc: ['nonenigmatical']
neiailmotnncga: ['nonenigmatical']
nesdmniamotnar: ['nondisarmament']
nesdmniamoartn: ['nondisarmament']
sdmnianemotnar: ['nondisarmament']
sdmnianemoartn: ['nondisarmament']
tnmoiasdnecout: ['documentations']
tnarmoneiamnsd: ['nondisarmament']
tnarmoneiasdmn: ['nondisarmament']
tnarmonesdmnia: ['nondisarmament']
tnarmonesdiamn: ['nondisarmament']
tnarmoiamnsdne: ['nondisarmament']
tnarmoianesdmn: ['nondisarmament']
utconesdiamotn: ['documentations']
You can see why I didn't even begin to attempt this challenge.
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