The WordCruncher Weekly - July 12, 2004

Welcome to "The WordCruncher Weekly", where you will find a fun word puzzle
to start off your week, and learn about a great software tool for solving
and creating word puzzles!


Contents
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1. This week's puzzle
2. Answers to last week's puzzle
3. About this email
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1. THIS WEEK'S PUZZLE

QUADATHLON #1

Group the following scrambled words into four categories containing three
items each. Devise a name for each of the categories, and fit those names
into the crossword puzzle. Then, take the letters from the specially
marked squares in the crossword puzzle, and unscramble each set of letters
to make a word that fits in the puzzle's question. The letters in squares
marked with an asterisk, '*', belong to both the {a} and {b} groups of
letters.

SCRAMBLED WORDS, TO BE GROUPED BY CATEGORY:
kacarmat
reinme
gemnata
hewel
ghhi
figafer
aaafssrss
amycores
enuclear
cogrink
topeelan
lowely


PUT CATEGORIES INTO THIS CROSSWORD:
<pre>
[_][_][a][b][_][*]
[*]
[_][_][_][_][*][a][a]
[_]
[_][b][*][*][*]
[_]
</pre>


SOLVE THIS QUESTION:
On summertime trips, some people collect {a} by the {b}; others sell them.


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2. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE

Answers to "Enchanted Limericks"

LIMERICK #1 (Encrypted)

A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny
"A canner can can
Anything that he can
But a canner can't can a can, can he?"
(Source: http://members.rediff.com/manuel_dsouza/lgu.html)

LIMERICK #2 (Scrambled words)

There once was a handsome young Mr.
Who met a young woman and Kr.
She had a disease
But instead of a sneeze,
His top lip developed a Blr.
(Source: http://www.english-zone.com/language/limericks.html)

LIMERICK #3 (Misplaced spaces)

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea,
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
(Source: http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm)


3. ABOUT THIS EMAIL

"The WordCruncher Weekly" is a weekly email with a word puzzle to get your
mental gears in motion as you start the week.

WordCruncher is a powerful software tool for solving and creating word
puzzles. It will be available soon at http://www.WordCruncher.net

Don't forget that you can look at previous WordCruncher puzzles at our
Yahoo Group page, http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/WordCruncher/


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