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Snaps' TRIPE Question 4
The Snapsinski Test of Responsiveness, Intelligence, Perceptivity and Elucidation (more commonly known as Snaps' TRIPE) is used to examine a person's excogitations of insensate disquisitions, inter alia (ie. a person's thoughts about senseless babble, among other things). Question 4 of Snaps' TRIPE is shown below.
"Question 4: Sort the following list of 15 words into three groups. Clearly explain why you decided to group the words in such a way. The words are:
alter, and, ant, ark, art, even, hard, hen, jam, just, mat, pet, rich, sea, trick."
Of the many hundreds of thousands of people who have attempted to understand Snaps' TRIPE only one person, Mr. Richard Shunary, received full marks on this question. He sorted the words into the following groups.
Group 1: and, jam, just, mat, pet, rich, sea
Group 2: alter, ark, even, hard, trick
Group 3: ant, art, hen
Can you explain why he grouped the words in this way?
"Question 4: Sort the following list of 15 words into three groups. Clearly explain why you decided to group the words in such a way. The words are:
alter, and, ant, ark, art, even, hard, hen, jam, just, mat, pet, rich, sea, trick."
Of the many hundreds of thousands of people who have attempted to understand Snaps' TRIPE only one person, Mr. Richard Shunary, received full marks on this question. He sorted the words into the following groups.
Group 1: and, jam, just, mat, pet, rich, sea
Group 2: alter, ark, even, hard, trick
Group 3: ant, art, hen
Can you explain why he grouped the words in this way?
Hint
Interestingly, Mr. Shunary didn't realise until after completing the question that his own NAME was involved in its solution.Answer
The reasons given by Mr. Shunary for these groupings were:Group 1: words that can have letters at the end to form male names (Andrew, James, Justin, Matthew, Peter, Richard, Sean).
Group 2: words that can have letters at the beginning to form male names (Walter, Mark, Steven, Richard, Patrick).
Group 3: words that can have letters at the end and beginning (though not at the same time) to form male names (Grant/Anthony, Stuart/Arthur, Stephen/Henry).
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Wow, another TRIPE question after a long wait! These are simply superb. Looking forward to more equally challenging ones!
It was pretty good. It compleately stumped me. I cant wait for another.
Wow, a very good teaser snaps! Would love to see more coming from you!
What about Grant?
Jan 11, 2013
I was amused that the only person to figure it out was Dic(k) Shunary !!!
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