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

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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

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!
Everyone now has one more week to guess the trio of words and get entered into the prize drawing for a $34 gift card for Grandmaster Puzzles!
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