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:
Everyone now has one more week to guess the trio of words! Results will be announced on September 20, and then Let's Guess Three Words V will start on September 27.
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
Week 3:
[Izak Bulten] The set of all words whose third letter appears in the words "PERFECT BLUE": NONE
[John Bulten] The set of all words with an even number of letters greater than five: ONE
[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words of odd length (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, or 15): TWO
[Sam Levitin] The set of all words of length less than or equal to 5 letters: NONE
Week 4:
[Izak Bulten] The set of all words whose fourth letter appears in "A MAN ESCAPED": ONE
[John Bulten] The set of all words whose fourth-to-last letter appears in "GOLDEN TAN": ALL
[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words beginning with a letter in the first half of the alphabet: ONE
[Kyle Nils] The set of all words that have a third letter found in "SUNSHINE DAY": ALL
[Sam Levitin] The set of all words of length 6, 7, or 8: TWO
Week 5:
[Grant Fikes] The set of all words with a total of exactly five occurrences of letters that do not appear in "THE THREE R'S": ALL
[John Bulten] [private guess of a set of 3 words]: ALL
[Kevin Orfield] The set of all words in the American English version of The Oxford 3000 (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/American_Oxford_3000.pdf): TWO
[Sam Levitin] The set of all words of length 9 or 10: ONE
Since the trio of words has been guessed, $50 has been donated to the Food Bank of West Central Texas, and the remaining $22 in the money pool will carry over to the next contest!
