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  2. 4 Pics 1 Word Cheats- Answering Difficult Puzzles - AOL

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    Warning: This article contains spoilers. 4 Pics 1 Word continues to delight and frustrate us. Occasionally, we'll rattle off four to five puzzles with little effort before getting stuck for ...

  3. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    As a result, war-related words including those codenames got into the crosswords; Dawe said later that at the time he did not know that these words were military codewords. On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid , 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a ...

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...

  5. The New York Times crossword - Wikipedia

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    a clue followed by a comma and the word "maybe". (e.g., [Fresh answer, maybe] for SASS) Occasionally, themed puzzles will require certain squares to be filled in with a symbol, multiple letters, or a word, rather than one letter (so-called "rebus" puzzles). This symbol/letters/word will be repeated in each themed entry.

  6. Hangman (game) - Wikipedia

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    Example game in which the letters A and N but not the whole word HANGMAN were guessed – incorrect guesses are noted at the bottom Hangman is a guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word , phrase , or sentence and the other(s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers within a certain number of guesses.

  7. Trie - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10]: 1 A prefix trie is an ordered tree data structure used in the representation of a set of strings over a finite alphabet set, which allows efficient storage of words with common prefixes. [1] Tries can be efficacious on string-searching algorithms such as predictive text, approximate string matching, and spell checking in comparison to ...

  8. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz. [32]

  9. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...