Note: Unless otherwise specified, "vowel" and "consonant" are defined as per National Puzzlers League rules, since those are the rules my readers seem to want to go along with. This means that A, E, I, O, U, and Y are vowels, and the other 20 letters are consonants.
Week 0:
Week 1:
The set of all words in which the second letter is a vowel: ONE
The set of all words containing a string of three or more consecutive consonants (e.g. THREE) and/or a string of two or more consecutive vowels (e.g. THREE): TWO
The set of all words containing a string of three or more consecutive consonants (e.g. THREE) and/or a string of two or more consecutive vowels (e.g. THREE): TWO
Week 1:
[Buster Beachside] The set of all words containing exactly four letters, exactly three of which are consonants: NONE
[Cody McWilliams] The set of all words that end with a vowel: NONE
[Izak Bulten] The set of all words whose first letter appears in the words "SPEED RACER": TWO
[John Bulten] The set of all words ending with a letter strictly after Q alphabetically (RSTUVWXYZ): NONE
[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words in which a letter appears more than once: TWO
[Kyle Nils] The set of all words which begin with a letter found in the words "FOOD BANK": ONE
Week 2:
[BentFork06] The set of all 4-letter words which start with a vowel: NONE
[Buster Beachside] The set of all 5-letter words: NONE
[Cody McWilliams] The set of all the words that contain the bigram PH: NONE
[Izak Bulten] The set of all words whose second-to-last letter appears in the words "RAIN MAN": ALL
[John Bulten] The set of all words in which the fifth letter exists and is a consonant other than S: ONE
[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words containing exactly two vowels: ONE
[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that contain 3 or more vowels: TWO
[Sam Levitin] The set of all words in which all vowels are in alphabetical order (examples: FACETIOUSLY, BABOON, HMM): ONE
[Spheniscine] The set of all words with at least three vowels: TWO
Kyle Nils was technically late this week, but since I had time to edit the post, and since Kyle and Spheniscine are demonstrating some amazing teamwork, I decided to include the guess anyway.
The money pool for the Food Bank of West Central Texas is now $76. (Reminder: up to $50 will be donated for this contest, and the excess will carry over to the next one.)
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