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TRex

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oddity on Standard puzzle for Wednesday 14 August 2024
« on: August 14, 2024, 12:02:29 PM »
The puzzle has an A, an E, an I, an O, and a U.

How many seed words have all five main vowels?
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Re: oddity on Standard puzzle for Wednesday 14 August 2024
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2024, 12:43:06 PM »
I can think of four others as well as today's example.
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Re: oddity on Standard puzzle for Wednesday 14 August 2024
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2024, 10:04:16 PM »
And the seed word was the very last common word that I found!
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Re: oddity on Standard puzzle for Wednesday 14 August 2024
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2024, 10:26:21 AM »
The five 9-Letter words I had in mind were inoculate, education, cautioned, facetious, and auctioned.
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Re: oddity on Standard puzzle for Wednesday 14 August 2024
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2024, 12:19:30 PM »
Surprisingly perhaps, a 7-by-many puzzle with all five vowels is possible: ATTENUATION. Another theoretical 7-by-many seed word is SEQUOIA, but those letters allow too few words to actually be chosen for a daily puzzle.
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