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Wordsmith’s Game

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This is my personal favorite. It requires both a good vocabulary (especially if you play with some of the more esoteric words enabled) and a great deal of logical thinking.

In this version of the game, you are told only positional information. The asterisks in the results field tell you that one of the letters in your guess is in each indicated position in the hidden word.

To solve each puzzle, you have to compare the results you get with each word to build up information about which letters are in and which are out. You’ll also find yourself doing “What if” analyses as you try out different possibilities.

If you solve most words in six or seven guesses you are truly a wordsmith!

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As with the other levels, the first thing to do is try to narrow down the vowels:



Well, that didn’t tell us very much. Let’s try FRUIT. It is a good word to use here because it has 2 letters from ABOUT and one from WHILE. That opens up all sorts of possibilities:


And we get very lucky! We now know that the 3rd letter is an ‘I’ and that the second is a ‘U’ or a ‘T’. The 4th letter must be an 
‘F’ or an ‘R’ – it cannot be a ‘U’ or a ‘T’.


So, the 2nd letter is ‘U’ — the answer
was QUIFF