Friday, January 30, 2015

PIECE BY PIECE II
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Dec. 1995
Stephen Sniderman

Each line of words below contains six pieces from two or three longer words that begin with the same letter. The first letter of these longer words has been dropped, and the remaining letters have been broken up into shorter words. These shorter words are in alphabetical order. By adding the right starter letter and regrouping the pieces, you should be able to reconstruct the original two or three words.

For example, given the set of words
___ ABLE  ALLY  DEN  NO  PER  TIC,
you would add the starter letter I to DEN to make
IDEN-TIC-ALLY,
and to NO to make INO-PER-ABLE

Given the set of words
___ ANT  ARK  ARM  LAB  LEG  ORATE,
you would add the starter letter E to ARM, LAB, and LEG
to make
EARM-ARK, ELAB-ORATE, and ELEG-ANT.

The letters you add in each set, read downward, will spell a word with no repeated letters. That word, which is given as a hint, will tell you the starter letter for each line.

SET ONE
___ AD  ISLE  ODE  STY  TANG  US
___ ANT  ASTER  DAM  GIST  LAB  POLO
___ A  AM  AN  ILL  IN IT
___ ABLE  GOT  PIG  QUIT  RAM  SCAR
___ AD  AN  AND  GEL  I  US
___ LASS  LATE  MAGI  NATIVE  SING  SO
___ ANT  HEM  IS  ON  TEST  TRY
___ A  HIP  INS  LEDGE  NOW  RATE

SET TWO
___ AS  HOE  IN  NIX  ROTE  SWORD
___ AGO  AMEN  FELINE  I ON  TABLE
___ A  LIE  NAG  NATION  ORT  RAM
___ A  BRED  HO  RICER  ROUGH  TOPS
___ AM  EAT  HERB  I  LIAR  RAIN
___ AS  AT  IN  MEAL  RIG  VERSE
___ A  HI  I  NEST  ONE  SIN
___ ANY  AS  CELL  IS  RED  SAC

HINTS:
The added letters, reading downward, are:
SET ONE: MAVERICK
SET TWO: PLATFORM

Answers:

SET ONE
MISLEAD, MODESTY, MUSTANG
ADAMANT, ALABASTER, APOLOGIST
VANILLA, VITAMIN
EPIGRAM, EQUITABLE, ESCARGOT
RADIUS, RANGELAND
IMAGINATIVE, ISINGLASS, ISOLATE
CHEMISTRY, CONTESTANT
KARATE, KINSHIP, KNOWLEDGE

SET TWO
PASSWORD, PHOENIX, PROTEIN
LAGOON, LAMENTABLE, LIFELINE
ALIENATION, ANAGRAM, AORTA
THOROUGHBRED, TRICERATOPS
FAMILIAR, FEATHERBRAIN
OATMEAL, ORIGIN, OVERSEAS
RAISIN, RHINESTONE
MASSACRED, MISCELLANY

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