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  2. Word search - Wikipedia

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    A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (penny-ante) trivial, small-time. period section of time menstruation row of the periodic table: punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence (interj.) used at the end of a statement to emphasise its finality *("You are not going to that concert, period!") (UK: full stop for both senses) pinafore

  4. Time-lock puzzle - Wikipedia

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    A Time-lock puzzle, or Time released cryptography encrypts a message that cannot be decrypted until a specified amount of time has passed. The concept was first described by Timothy C. May , [ 1 ] and a solution first introduced by Ron Rivest , Adi Shamir , and David A. Wagner in 1996. [ 2 ]

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

  6. Wonderword - Wikipedia

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    Wonderword is a word search puzzle, still created by hand, with a solution at the end. All the words in the grid connect and the remaining letters spell out the answer. The puzzles are either in a 15×15 or 20×20 grid. [1] Each puzzle has a title, theme, solution number and wordlist.

  7. Time loop - Wikipedia

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    The time loop is then a problem-solving process, and the narrative becomes akin to an interactive puzzle. [24] The presentation of a time loop as a puzzle has subsequently led to video games that are centered on the time loop mechanic, giving the player the ability to learn and figure out the rules themselves.

  8. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    [13] [462] [463] In American English there is a distinction in usage: "gotten" is used to refer to the process of acquisition, obtainment or to having entered a state over a matter of time, whereas "got" signifies possession. [464] [461] grits A maize (sweetcorn) porridge common in the southern U.S. and relatively unknown in the UK [465] [466 ...

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...