QUADRUPLE Wordy Wednesday! (WW400-WW403)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #396
SECTION SIX 39 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cindy Heisler *
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Kyle Nils **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Stephen Potter **
Kevin Orfield **
Lee Glascock **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #397
TOUCHWORD 19 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Mary Maynard **
Pavel Curtis **
Stephen Potter **
Tyler Hinman **
Bo & Becky Green **
Kevin Orfield **
Lee Glascock **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #398
PATHFINDER 22 (hint)

As of this writing, 11 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #399
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 15 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

QUADRUPLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS (LAST WEDNESDAY OF MONTH IN Q1 2021)!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #400
PENT WORDS 80
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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):

1 Like much church music / "Church Tech Team Introduces Helpful Bouncing Sing-Along ____" (headline from Christian satirical news site The Babylon Bee)

2 Piece of a pie graph / Helper

3 Gull relative / "Theologians Find Going To Church Via Zoom Will Only Get You Access To ____ Via Zoom" (The Babylon Bee headline)

4 Astonish / Emitted light

5 Beams of light / Firearm part preventing an accidental discharge

6 Briefs, in brief / Tail end

7 Light rain / ____ wrench

8 Cowboy ____ (science fiction anime) / Tank top, for example

9 Amazon AI assistant's name / Many a Strauss composition

10 Genesis garden / 2020 film about elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot

PENTOMINOES:

* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER

* "Golden Globe ____ For 'Not Being A Pervert' Goes Unclaimed Once Again" (The Babylon Bee headline)

* "Impeachment Ratings Skyrocket After Introducing Agitated Horde Of ____ Badgers" (The Babylon Bee headline)

* Narcissus and Goldmund author Hermann

* Unit of frequency

* Pokémon that transforms into other Pokémon, or a punctuation mark indicating repetition

* A noble gas

* ____ dry (completely drain of resources)

* They overhang from roofs

* Infant-to-be

* Epic Games Store rival

* "Fie!"

* Iron Chef America host Brown

* Interweave three strands

* Absinthe ingredient

* Household task

* Tim of Last Man Standing

* Cuban dance

* Fur trader and millionaire John Jacob ____

WORDY WEDNESDAY #401
FOXGERYPTICS 16
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Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an eight-letter word.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #402
ANAWORDSEARCH 3
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(A sequel to WW67 and WW169.)

Bent weapon from Down Under (6 items are hidden in __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

    the word search above, each with one bend)     H3 E2 F9 I7 C5 A6 G5 E7 A1

Wash clothes __ __ __ __ __ __ __

             B6 I9 B1 I5 F6 D4 F8

First Lady with the maiden name __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

    Dandridge: 2 wds.           E6 A5 B9 E1 D7 D8 G2 I3 C8 D3 A3 H5 D5 B3 G1 I2

The Legend of Zelda: ____ of Time __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                  G4 G7 C1 B4 H9 C7 E3

Stuff to dip tortilla chips in, perhaps __ __ __ __ __

                                        B2 A2 C9 H1 F5

Places to rest your butt __ __ __ __ __

                         I8 C6 B8 F4 F2

Name shared by a sport and a vegetable __ __ __ __ __ __

                                       G3 C3 A9 I6 F3 D1

Teenage Mutant Ninja ____ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                          A7 D2 G9 E9 A4 H7 H6

It dangles at the back of the throat __ __ __ __ __

                                     F1 F7 C4 G6 H4

2003 musical with the song “Defying Gravity” __ __ __ __ __ __

                                             E4 E8 D9 G8 H2 H8

____ Lane (Desperate Housewives location) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                          I1 I4 A8 C2 E5 D6 B7 B5

WORDY WEDNESDAY #403
CODEWORDS 14
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A highly challenging interactive word search!
* Patron Puzzle #83, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is titled "P.S. I Love You".

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!

Contest: Crisscross Relay

(PDF of this puzzle to print out)

You must endure three rounds of crisscross puzzles to find out how to enter this contest! In each puzzle, you’re given a list of words which you must fit into the crisscross, reading left to right and top to bottom. The letters in the shaded cells will help you obtain an answer to that crisscross, which will enable you to progress further in the relay.

Round 1: The Missing Word

A word that goes in the highlighted space is missing from the word list! This missing word is your answer.

AXLE AMICI

DEWS ASTER

EDGE ESTOP

EURO INTRO

NEXT LYRIC

ONTO NONET

SPAT PSALM

TALC RERAN

     SCREW

     TERSE

Round 2: The Scrambled Word

When you have an answer to Round 1, go to https://sites.google.com/view/crisscrossrelay-ANSWER/home, replacing ANSWER with the answer. If done correctly, a website will appear with a list of words you will need to use in the grid below. When you’re done, a word will be spelled by the letters in the highlighted spaces, but they won’t be in order; you must rearrange the letters to spell a word.

Round 3: The Trivia

When you have an answer to Round 2, go to https://sites.google.com/view/crisscrossrelay-ANSWER/home, replacing ANSWER with the answer. If done correctly, a website will appear with a list of words you will need to use in the grid below. When you’re done, the letters in the highlighted spaces, in order from left to right starting with the top row, will spell a trivia clue. When you have an answer to the trivia clue, go to https://sites.google.com/view/crisscrossrelay-ANSWER/home, replacing ANSWER with the answer (removing spaces if the answer is more than one word). If done correctly, a website will appear with information on how you can enter this contest!

When you have obtained instructions on how to enter this contest, send your entry to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com before 11:59 PM Central time on April 11, 2021. Due to prize budget cuts, I've decided to ship two random white elephant items which I already have rather than buy a prize:

* A new in shrink (albeit with a tear in the shrink; when or how it got there, I don't know) copy of the board game Progress: Evolution of Technology.

* A copy of All About the States: Search-a-Word Puzzles, originally purchased on Amazon because I was a single cent away from free shipping on something else.

Additionally, for every entry in the contest, I will donate $0.50 to the Food Bank of West Central Texas, up to a maximum of $50, so surviving the relay will help feed hungry people. Yappy solving!

Patron Puzzles for Philanthropy: Anacrossword Twenty-Pack

This update to the Patron Puzzles for Philanthropy initiative is to announce the Anacrossword Twenty-Pack!

Artwork by Tintinabar

This pack contains 20 Anacrossword puzzles for the price of US$10. Anacrosswords are a frequent puzzle on this blog, inspired by a concept seen in Games magazine eons ago. Combining crosswords and acrostic puzzles, when the letters in the crossword are transferred to the correspondingly-numbered blanks, each of these puzzles yields a quote followed by its author (as opposed to the ones on this blog which yield a clue to a final answer). Each puzzle comes in a hard version (where the solver must determine where each answer goes and where spaces and punctuation belong in the quote) and an easy version. Puzzles vary in size from 52 blanks in the smallest puzzle to 164 blanks in the largest puzzle.

As a reminder, this is a charity initiative. Please e-mail me (glmathgrantATgmailDOTcom) a copy of your charitable receipt to my local food bank, the Food Bank of West Central Texas, to receive this puzzle pack. (It must be a new donation, dated no earlier than one day before you email me.) Click here for a list of all of the puzzle packs in this initiative. Happy solving!

Wordy Wednesday 398: Pathfinder 22 & Wordy Wednesday 399: Snake Crisscross 15

WORDY WEDNESDAY #394
CODEWORDS 13 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Lee Glascock **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #395
PENT WORDS 79 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Kyle Nils **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Stephen Potter **
Bo & Becky Green **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #396
SECTION SIX 39 (hint)

As of this writing, 10 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #397
TOUCHWORD 19 (hint)

As of this writing, 17 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #398
PATHFINDER 22
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In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.

Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 Of a nostalgic style (5)

2 “Death Penalty Still Permissible For People Who Drive Slowly In The Left Lane, ____ Francis Clarifies” (headline from Christian satire news site The Babylon Bee) (4)

2 Spinach-eating cartoon sailor (6)

3 “SNL Fires Comedian Accused Of Telling ____ Joke” (Babylon Bee headline) (5)

3 Sweet fair treat (6 4)

4 “Activists Fight ____ By Driving All People Of Color Out Of Pop Culture” (Babylon Bee headline) (6)

5 Fate (6)

6 Reference (4)

7 Return, as Press Secretary Jen Psaki might promise to do to a question (6 4)

8 Word before “cell” or “sofa” (7)

9 Less lengthy (7)

10 Miniature racing vehicle (4)

11 “Christian Radio Station Expands ____ To Nine Different Songs” (Babylon Bee headline) (8)

12 Italian capital (4)

13 Cheap curios (4-1-4)

14 “Life Hack: If You're Voting Third-Party, Save On Postage By Throwing Your Ballot Directly In The ____” (Babylon Bee headline) (5)

15 Establishment with coin-operated games (6)

16 “Overbearing Friend Occasionally Wants To ____ Out, Talk, Text” (Babylon Bee headline) (4)

17 Leader of the pack (5)

18 “Biden Suggests Stopping Criminals By Making Them Slip On Banana ____” (Babylon Bee headline) (5)

19 Certain crustacean (4)

20 A region in Italy (6)

20 Kidnap (8)

21 It may be made of coral (4)

22 Fish that uses suction to cling to larger fish (6)

23 ____ acid (5)

24 Italian physicist Enrico (5)

25 “Shocking Investigation Reveals Pastor Bribed Congregants To Say ‘____’” (Babylon Bee headline) (4)

26 1/16 of a pound (5)

27 Say a word correctly (9)

27 Difficult situations (12)

WORDY WEDNESDAY #399
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 15
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This puzzle's crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS

3 LETTERS

Couple

Inventor Whitney

Significant time period

Standard

4 LETTERS

Stand-up comic Cook

Billionaire Michael of tech fame

Jazz great Fitzgerald

At any time

What you might do with wet laundry

Assist

“That hurt!”

____ Office

Comedian Foxx

Symbol on a music staff, perhaps

Strike with an open hand

Seattle ____ (Triple Crown winner)

“How Great ____ Art”

St. John’s ____

5 LETTERS

Lower in rank

Savory smell

Ed of The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Fill with joy

Addressee of the epistle of 3 John in the Bible

Idle

Woodworking need

____ pollution

Academy-founding Greek

Like online ads that create their own windows: hyph.

Actress Sink of Stranger Things

Round where the final four compete, briefly

Have in common

Lawyer Ken who gained fame during the Clinton administration

Chart of multiplication results, say

6 LETTERS

Hamper

Lessee

City in Spain famed for its swords

Trademarked name of Sildenafil

Righteousness

7 LETTERS

Pittsburgh baseball team

8 LETTERS

Parachutist’s shout

20 LETTERS

2016 song, often abbreviated to four letters, about combining writing implements and fruits: 4 wds.

SNAKE WORDS

5 LETTERS

Goodbye

Furor

Tyler Perry’s ____ of Payne

Colorful gemstones

Imagos-to-be

Mattress company with numbered sheep in its advertising

“I ____ Not Be Moved”

____ Recall (1990 film)

Cow organ

6 LETTERS

Unconcerned with right or wrong behavior

Greek goddess of wisdom

Corroborate

Item with pips, perhaps

Injured spot on the body

Hobbled

The ____ Trap (1961 film remade in 1998)

Historic rider Paul

____ effect

Fixes one’s gaze

____ Trap (1984-1985 game show)

Gardener’s item

7 LETTERS

The most common bowling game

8 LETTERS

Drove back

9 LETTERS

Far from cheerful

11 LETTERS

Agreement where a defendant accepts a lesser charge: 2 wds.

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Tim of Last Man Standing"?
* A pair of Foxgeryptics!
* What's an 8-letter word for "____ Lane (Desperate Housewives location)"?
* A Codewords!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!

Contest: Let's Guess Three Words II! (RESULTS!)

It's time for the results of this contest!

Wordy Wednesday 396: Section Six 39 & Wordy Wednesday 397: Touchword 19

WORDY WEDNESDAY #392
ANACROSSWORD 24 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cindy Heisler **
James Haddad **
Leo Termin **
Adam Weaver **
Jason Boomer **
Kevin Orfield **
Lee Glascock *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #393
CRYPTICROSTIC 12 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Bo & Becky Green **
Jason Boomer **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #394
CODEWORDS 13 (hint)

As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #395
PENT WORDS 79 (hint)

As of this writing, 12 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #396
SECTION SIX 39
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This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains. Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.

Ring 1

1 Church part

2 Swedish car manufacturer

3 One of two remaining contestants

4 Having happened not long ago

5 Fire ____

6 One of the Galilean moons of Jupiter

Ring 2

* Quiz bowl concern

* "Why Do ____ Fall in Love" (Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers hit)

* Like some milk

* Cartwright of The Simpsons

* Common canine command

Ring 3

* Conditionally releases a prisoner

* Most likely winner

* Therefore

* Nothing, in Spanish

Ring 4

* Bath "bye"

* One of two test options, often

* Ticker-tape ____

 

Ring 5

* Faint

* It's above the eyes

  

Ring 6

* Hitchcock who directed The 39 Steps

WORDY WEDNESDAY #397
TOUCHWORD 19
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This puzzle contains words suggested by patrons Cindy Heisler and Leo Termin. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!

In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

1 Rest / Small child / Fluid secreted by the liver

2 “____ Hill” (Fats Domino hit) / Bit of dog or cat food

3 One selling puppies, perhaps / True

4 Big name in psychoanalysis / Pitches / Border

5 Impostors / ____ driver / Team Fortress 2 class with a double jump

6 Fritz of American Pickers / “Come ____ Away” (Styx hit) / Chaperone

7 Grouchy people / Suffers persistent pain / Michael who founded Capri Holdings Limited

8 Board game invented in Germany (not Asia) under the name Sternhalma: 2 wds.

9 Like a bodybuilder’s physique (literally if it’s a statue of a bodybuilder) / Female protagonist of Disney's The Aristocats

10 Brother in a fairy tale / Make sense: 2 wds. / Emulate a snake

11 Certain gymnastic feats / Incontinence pad brand

12 Graph paper features / Take care of / Marriage partner

13 Feature of the front end of a car / County seat of Oklahoma's Garfield County / A unit of weight

14 Christian rock band with the album Alien Youth / Persil alternative / Discover

15 Like some milk / White who played Rose Nylund / Pollute

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Spinach-eating cartoon sailor"?
* What's a 6-letter word for "____ Trap (1984-1985 game show)"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!

Contest: Let's Guess Three Words II! (Week 9 update - FINAL UPDATE!)

For full rules, see here.

Week 0:

The set of all words with 3 or more consecutive consonants (consonants being defined as all letters except A, E, I, O, U, and Y): NONE 
The set of all words containing a double vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, YY): ONE 
The set of all words that appear as distinct words in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (as opposed to as substrings of words), according to www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare (example: BRANCHLESS, counterexample: RANCH): TWO 
The set of all words in which the fifth letter exists and appears in the string FAMILY REUNIONS: ALL 

Week 1:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words of length strictly less than 8 (that is, 7 or below): ALL

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words with a length of 9 or more letters that do NOT contain a double vowel: NONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words with a length matching a number in the Fibonacci sequence (2, 3, 5, 8, or 13): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose length is greater than or equal to 12: NONE

Week 2:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words beginning with I, J, Q, U, X, Y, or Z: NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words containing exactly two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words which begin with a vowel (A, E, I , O, U and Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words containing at most two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the first two letters are both consonants (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

Week 3:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose length is a perfect number (that is, 6 letters, as no other number between 2 and 15 inclusive is perfect): TWO

[John Bulten] The set of all words ending with a letter from BENDY TRACK: TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words whose first and second letters are both vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words where the first letter comes earlier in the alphabet than the last letter: ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter that appears in the word SHADOW: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words in which at least half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the 3rd and 5th letters both exist and are a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y) and a consonant (any letter besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y) in some order: ALL

Week 4:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words containing a doubled consonant (BB, CC, DD, FF, . . . XX, ZZ): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words containing a doubled vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, or YY) and whose second letter is a consonant (any letter other than A, E, I, O, U, or Y, doubled or otherwise): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of words in which strictly more than half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter found in the words SUPERB OWL: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words ending with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose letters have a combined point value of 11 or lower in English-language Scrabble: TWO

Week 5:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words where the fourth letter is a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words containing three or more vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with and end with a consonant (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that start and end with the same letter: NONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of words appearing in the Oxford 3000 (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/The%20Oxford%203000.pdf): ONE

Week 6:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words beginning with C, K, P, or W: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all 6-letter words that contain at least 4 consonants (any letter but A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that contain the letter E exactly once: TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words ending in a letter from NORMAL: ONE

Week 7:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose fifth letter exists and is a letter of FRAMES: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words ending in S: NONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that have their second letter as R, S, T, L, N, or E: TWO

[Sam Levitin] [private guess of a set of 5 words]: NONE

Week 8:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose fifth letter exists and is in the string OIL: ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that end with the letter Y: NONE

[Sam Levitin] [private guess of a set of 5 words]: NONE

Week 9:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words containing any instance of the letter Y: NONE

[Izak & John Bulten] [private guess of a set of 3 words]: ALL

[Kenneth Wilson] [private guess of a set of 4 words]: NONE

[Kevin Orfield] [private guess of a set of 3 words]: ALL

[Kit F. Sanger] The set of all words in which exactly one of the seven distinct letters of the phrase MATCH GAME appears (any number of times) and which either appear as distinct words in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra according to www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare (as opposed to as substrings of words) and are 6 letters long or have definitions on scrabble.merriam.com which contain the word "skateboarding" and whose letters have a combined point value of exactly 5 in English-language Scrabble: ALL

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words whose first letter is the letter I: NONE 

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words beginning with a letter in SOW: ONE

[yyw] [private guess of a set of 3 words]: ALL

Since the trio of words has been guessed, $34 has been donated to the Food Bank of West Central Texas!

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Wordy Wednesday 394: Codewords 13 & Wordy Wednesday 395: Pent Words 79

WORDY WEDNESDAY #386
SECTION SIX 38 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #387
CODEWORDS 12 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Tyler Hinman **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #388
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE (answer)

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Cole Kendall **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
M. Sean Molley **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #389
ANACROSSWORD 23 (answer)

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Cole Kendall **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #390
PENT WORDS 78 (answer)

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Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Kyle Nils **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Bo & Becky Green **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #391
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 5 (answer)

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Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #392
ANACROSSWORD 24 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #393
CRYPTICROSTIC 12 (hint)

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DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #394
CODEWORDS 13
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #395
PENT WORDS 79
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In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the ACROSS clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the PENTOMINOES clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):

1 Stratagem / Giorgio of Italian fashion
2 Ginger ____ / Heartfelt
3 Run-down urban area / Sci-fi writer ____ C. Clarke
4 Nonreligious / Wildebeest
5 Place for a monitor, perhaps / Former Alaska governor Sarah
6 2006-2014 series about Shawn Spencer / The ____ Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008 Disney Channel series)
7 Site / What the author wishes to never see more of (not even a flake of it!) after that February 2021 storm that left much of Texas without electricity
8 ____ cordiale (informal political alliance) / Color, as Easter eggs
9 Cremated remains / "On the Road ____" (Willie Nelson hit)
10 Supply's partner / 25 Words or ____ (game show hosted by Meredith Vieira)

PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Appeals
* Tithe amount
* Idlewild author Nick
* Subject of the December 7, 1972 photograph The Blue Marble
* Actor Williams of Happy Days
* Varnish ingredient
* ____ Hadron Collider
* Come together
* Bark chips used in gardening, perhaps
* Sits around doing nothing
* ____-depressive
* Track and field legend Jesse
* Faithful
* Outmoded
* Dropsy
* DVR button
* Weighing device
* Any game show episode seen on Buzzr, for example

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 6-letter word for "Hitchcock who directed The 39 Steps"?
* What's a 15-letter, 2-word answer for "Board game invented in Germany (not Asia) under the name Sternhalma"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!

Contest: Let's Guess Three Words II! (Week 8 update)

For full rules, see here.

Week 0:

The set of all words with 3 or more consecutive consonants (consonants being defined as all letters except A, E, I, O, U, and Y): NONE 
The set of all words containing a double vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, YY): ONE 
The set of all words that appear as distinct words in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (as opposed to as substrings of words), according to www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare (example: BRANCHLESS, counterexample: RANCH): TWO 
The set of all words in which the fifth letter exists and appears in the string FAMILY REUNIONS: ALL 

Week 1:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words of length strictly less than 8 (that is, 7 or below): ALL

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words with a length of 9 or more letters that do NOT contain a double vowel: NONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words with a length matching a number in the Fibonacci sequence (2, 3, 5, 8, or 13): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose length is greater than or equal to 12: NONE

Week 2:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words beginning with I, J, Q, U, X, Y, or Z: NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words containing exactly two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words which begin with a vowel (A, E, I , O, U and Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words containing at most two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the first two letters are both consonants (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

Week 3:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose length is a perfect number (that is, 6 letters, as no other number between 2 and 15 inclusive is perfect): TWO

[John Bulten] The set of all words ending with a letter from BENDY TRACK: TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words whose first and second letters are both vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words where the first letter comes earlier in the alphabet than the last letter: ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter that appears in the word SHADOW: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words in which at least half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the 3rd and 5th letters both exist and are a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y) and a consonant (any letter besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y) in some order: ALL

Week 4:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words containing a doubled consonant (BB, CC, DD, FF, . . . XX, ZZ): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words containing a doubled vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, or YY) and whose second letter is a consonant (any letter other than A, E, I, O, U, or Y, doubled or otherwise): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of words in which strictly more than half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter found in the words SUPERB OWL: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words ending with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose letters have a combined point value of 11 or lower in English-language Scrabble: TWO

Week 5:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words where the fourth letter is a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words containing three or more vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with and end with a consonant (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that start and end with the same letter: NONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of words appearing in the Oxford 3000 (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/The%20Oxford%203000.pdf): ONE

Week 6:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words beginning with C, K, P, or W: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all 6-letter words that contain at least 4 consonants (any letter but A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that contain the letter E exactly once: TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words ending in a letter from NORMAL: ONE

Week 7:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose fifth letter exists and is a letter of FRAMES: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words ending in S: NONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that have their second letter as R, S, T, L, N, or E: TWO

[Sam Levitin] [private guess of a set of 5 words]: NONE

Week 8:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose fifth letter exists and is in the string OIL: ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that end with the letter Y: NONE

[Sam Levitin] [private guess of a set of 5 words]: NONE

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The money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas is now $34.

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Wordy Wednesday 392: Anacrossword 24 & Wordy Wednesday 393: Crypticrostic 12

WORDY WEDNESDAY #384

HEX PATHFINDER 24 (answer)

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James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Stephen Potter **
Adam Weaver **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

 

WORDY WEDNESDAY #385

PENT WORDS 77 (answer)

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Cole Kendall **
Joe Bernard **
Karen Spencer **
Leo Termin **
Mark Ballinger **
Stephen Potter **
Adam Weaver **
Bo & Becky Green **
Dean Askin **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tamara Brenner *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #386

SECTION SIX 38 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #387

CODEWORDS 12 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #388

SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #389

ANACROSSWORD 23 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #390

PENT WORDS 78 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #391

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 5 (hint)

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DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS ENTIRE FIRST QUARTER OF 2021!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #392

ANACROSSWORD 24

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

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71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93

Pertinent

Rocky’s last name in the Rocky films

Somewhat poetic preposition for something in the middle of two other things

Card game where multiple North-South partnerships and East-West partnerships all play the same hands: 2 wds.

Formula One driver Alonso

An East Asia desert

Song sung by the Seven Dwarfs: hyph.

Thumb (a ride)

One receiving guests

Disarrayed

Tom ____ and the Heartbreakers

Structure for housing lawn equipment, perhaps

A style of clay pigeon shooting

Government grant for doing something in the public interest

Word before “case” or “tube”

Belief that God exists

Partner of parsley, sage, and rosemary in “Scarborough Fair”

Big name in watches

Belgian town south of Brussels

WORDY WEDNESDAY #393

CRYPTICROSTIC 12

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The answer is two words enumerated (5 3).

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58

__ __ __ __ __ 

59 60 61 62 63

Amplify female relative holding GameStop stock __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                               09 44 33 51 45 29 60

Black and white identification: the endless concern when __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

    buying an Internet connection                        05 18 41 04 36 61 11 54 21

Garbage contains hydrogen bomb __ __ __ __ __ __

                               25 01 53 49 16 39

Have the money to buy an Expedition or Explorer, reportedly __ __ __ __ __ __

                                                            06 31 42 02 19 24

Laid into absurd expansion __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                           12 37 50 58 17 55 26 10

Newsman Rather is beginning to have pastry __ __ __ __ __ __

                                           30 56 14 48 62 34

Origin of thoughtful behavior! __ __ __ __

                               47 22 07 35

Piece of flat bread from Newport or Tillamook __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

                                              20 13 59 38 32 43 57 28

Swiss chocolate manufacturer announced, "It's in a dryer" __ __ __ __

                                                          03 40 23 63

Troy and Bobby Hill's father express gratitude __ __ __ __ __

                                               15 27 52 46 08

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* What's a 5-letter word for "Subject of the December 7, 1972 photograph The Blue Marble"?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!

Contest: Let's Guess Three Words II! (Week 7 update)

For full rules, see here.

Week 0:

The set of all words with 3 or more consecutive consonants (consonants being defined as all letters except A, E, I, O, U, and Y): NONE 
The set of all words containing a double vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, YY): ONE 
The set of all words that appear as distinct words in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (as opposed to as substrings of words), according to www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare (example: BRANCHLESS, counterexample: RANCH): TWO 
The set of all words in which the fifth letter exists and appears in the string FAMILY REUNIONS: ALL 

Week 1:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words of length strictly less than 8 (that is, 7 or below): ALL

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words with a length of 9 or more letters that do NOT contain a double vowel: NONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words with a length matching a number in the Fibonacci sequence (2, 3, 5, 8, or 13): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose length is greater than or equal to 12: NONE

Week 2:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words beginning with I, J, Q, U, X, Y, or Z: NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words containing exactly two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words which begin with a vowel (A, E, I , O, U and Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words containing at most two instances of vowels (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): ONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the first two letters are both consonants (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

Week 3:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose length is a perfect number (that is, 6 letters, as no other number between 2 and 15 inclusive is perfect): TWO

[John Bulten] The set of all words ending with a letter from BENDY TRACK: TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words whose first and second letters are both vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words where the first letter comes earlier in the alphabet than the last letter: ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter that appears in the word SHADOW: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words in which at least half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which the 3rd and 5th letters both exist and are a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y) and a consonant (any letter besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y) in some order: ALL

Week 4:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words containing a doubled consonant (BB, CC, DD, FF, . . . XX, ZZ): ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words containing a doubled vowel (AA, EE, II, OO, UU, or YY) and whose second letter is a consonant (any letter other than A, E, I, O, U, or Y, doubled or otherwise): NONE

[Kevin Orfield] The set of words in which strictly more than half of the letters are vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with a letter found in the words SUPERB OWL: ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words ending with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, and Y): TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words whose letters have a combined point value of 11 or lower in English-language Scrabble: TWO

Week 5:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words where the fourth letter is a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): TWO

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words containing three or more vowels (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that begin with and end with a consonant (anything besides A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that start and end with the same letter: NONE

[Sam Levitin] The set of words appearing in the Oxford 3000 (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/The%20Oxford%203000.pdf): ONE

Week 6:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words beginning with C, K, P, or W: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all 5-letter words that begin with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all 6-letter words that contain at least 4 consonants (any letter but A, E, I, O, U, or Y): ONE

[Leo Termin] The set of all words that contain the letter E exactly once: TWO

[Sam Levitin] The set of all words ending in a letter from NORMAL: ONE

Week 7:

[Daniel Levitin] The set of all words whose fifth letter exists and is a letter of FRAMES: ONE

[Kenneth Wilson] The set of all words ending in S: NONE

[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that have their second letter  as R, S, T, L, N, or E: TWO

[Sam Levitin] [private guess of a set of 5 words]: NONE

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