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This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

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On 05-08-2025 05:44 am, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?
Got it

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On 05/08/2025 10:57, Pimpom wrote:

On 05-08-2025 05:44 am, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

This word has 10 letters.-a namely:-a-a-a 1234567890

Those are digits, not letters.

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a What is the word?

Trivial.

Here are some clues:

Enrage Into
Genera Into
Grantee Ion
Reagent Ion
Negate Iron
Neonate Rig
Ranee Ingot
Eaten Groin
Age Intoner
Negation Re
Nearing Toe
Earning Toe
Grannie Toe
Antigen Roe
Antigen Ore
Anteing Roe
Anteing Ore
Gentian Roe
Gentian Ore
Regain Note
Regain Tone
Gainer Note
Gainer Tone
Tearing One
Tearing Eon
Ingrate One
Ingrate Eon
Tangier One
Tangier Eon
Granite One
Granite Eon
Triage Neon
Triage None
Gaiter Neon
Gaiter None
Nonage Tier
Nonage Tire
Nonage Rite
Tonnage Ire
Onager Nite
Onager Tine
Orange Nite
Orange Tine
Garote Nine
Togae Inner
Rage Intone
Gear Intone
Inane Ergot
Innate Goer
Innate Ogre
Innate Gore
Innate Ergo
Retain Gone
Retina Gone
Oaten Niger
Oaten Reign
Atone Niger
Atone Reign
Earn Toeing
Near Toeing
Ante Ignore
Ante Region
Neat Ignore
Neat Region
Atoning Ere
Oaring Teen
Orating Nee
Gonna Retie
Ago Interne
Anion Egret
Anion Greet
Ration Gene
Roan Teeing
Taro Engine
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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On 05/08/25 20:06, Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 05/08/2025 10:57, Pimpom wrote:

On 05-08-2025 05:44 am, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

Those are digits, not letters.

1234 - carries heredity 456 - is a period of time 567 - is a
pest and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

Trivial.

Here are some clues:

[snip long list]

It's impressive how many anagrams one can find of a moderately long
word. I'm put in mind of an incident from my past. A colleague had been
hired as a lecturer before he had submitted his PhD thesis. This can be
done if the interview committee is convinced that the PhD is not far
away, but it puts pressure on the person to finish the job.

My colleague put in many long nights writing up the thesis. One day we
arrived to discover that he'd taken the day off, leaving a big note on
his office door saying "It's finished". I printed a number of copies of
that message in the same font and size, and then reassembled them,
ransom note style, with scissors and tape. I then plastered his office
door with lots of messages like "dis fine shit fIts in shed".

After realising how many anagrams I could find I wrote a poem, several
pages long, where every line was an anagram of "it's finished". It even
made some sort of sense.

That work of art is now lost.
--
Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW
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Here's a similar puzzle.
To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths

123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy

This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:
* a small part
* a pronoun
* a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza
* a verb with dozens of dictionary entries
* often appears at the end of a restaurant meal
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On 05/08/2025 13:10, James Dow Allen wrote:

Here's a similar puzzle.
To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths

123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy

Stop right there! I gotta know right now!

Before you go any further...

Well, Meat Loaf aside, I've seen enough.

This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:
* a small part (3)
* a pronoun (1)
* a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza (2)
* a verb with dozens of dictionary entries (2)
* often appears at the end of a restaurant meal (3)

I think you hesitantly missed out two letters.
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Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> posted:

On 05/08/2025 13:10, James Dow Allen wrote:

Here's a similar puzzle.
To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths

123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy

Stop right there! I gotta know right now!

Before you go any further...

Well, Meat Loaf aside, I've seen enough.

This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order: * a small part (3)
* a pronoun (1)
* a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza (2)
* a verb with dozens of dictionary entries (2)
* often appears at the end of a restaurant meal (3)

I think you hesitantly missed out two letters.

"Hesitantly" -- :-)

But I think you misguessed two of my intended words.
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On 05/08/2025 15:26, James Dow Allen wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> posted:

On 05/08/2025 13:10, James Dow Allen wrote:

Here's a similar puzzle.
To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths

123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy

Stop right there! I gotta know right now!

Before you go any further...

Well, Meat Loaf aside, I've seen enough.

This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order: >>> * a small part (3)
* a pronoun (1)
* a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza (2)
* a verb with dozens of dictionary entries (2)
* often appears at the end of a restaurant meal (3)

I think you hesitantly missed out two letters.

"Hesitantly" -- :-)

But I think you misguessed two of my intended words.

Ah! How delightful! I should maybe take this to email, yes?
--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:14:08 GMT
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

If the electric company bore heirs they would come down the line.

The fuse box has a sire.

The ALLCAPS sha1sum of the word is:
1798ea99ac8369d4b5f2384f7fa5b25ff55a9cfd.

The full word begets the copper complement of 890,
a neat coincidence of free association.
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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

Here's a similar puzzle.
To make it difficult, I don't show word lengths

123456789ABCD - famous claim from philosophy

This phrase is obtained by concatenating five English words in this order:
* a small part
* a pronoun
* a word that occurs twice in a famous 1st stanza
* a verb with dozens of dictionary entries
* often appears at the end of a restaurant meal

Before I'm accused of a Violationrao, let me point out that one of the
five English words contains a punctuation mark.
(Still, the word is shown in all five dictionaries I checked.)

The famous claim from philosophy is often presented with a punctuation
mark which, although a different mark from the one mentioned in the
previous paragraph, lines up in the proper position with that other
mark when the five words are concatenated.

(I'm afraid my mention of "different marks" and "lining up" is
confusing. Oh well, ignore this hint, or treat it as another puzzle!)
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Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> posted:

ObPuzzle:

FORTY
TEN+
TEN+
-----
SIXTY

Phil

Vs gurer jnf n pneel bhg bs 1'f pbyhza G+R+R+pneel = G
jbhyqa'g jbex fb A=0; R=5; naq
SBE+G+G+1 = FVK.
0 vf hfrq hc fb V=1; B=9. F=S+1; E+G+G=K+19
Fb sne fb tbbq, ohg abj V pbafvqre frireny pnfrf.
Vf gurer n fubegphg?
Vs G=6 gura E/K=9/2 ohg B=9
Vs G=7 gura E/K=8/3 fb F/S=6/5 ohg R=5
Vs G=8 gura E/K=6/3 be 7/4 fb F/S=3/2
Ohg K naq S pna'g obgu or 3 fb
G=8; E=7; K=4; F=3; S=2 naq L=6 ol ryvzvangvba
N purpx fngvfsvrf juvpu V jba'g fubj fvapr ebg13


Purref,
Wnzrf
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

On 05/08/2025 10:57, Pimpom wrote:

On 05-08-2025 05:44 am, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890

Those are digits, not letters.

1234 - carries heredity
456 - is a period of time
567 - is a pest
and 890 - is a charged particle

What is the word?

Trivial.

But goes against the protocol of each digit standing for a different
letter. The word is better represented by: 1232456783

ObPuzzle:

FORTY
TEN+
TEN+
-----
SIXTY

Phil
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