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Anagram Triplets - I
There are two groups of four-letter words used in the sentences below. The first missing words of each sentence are anagrams of each other, and the second missing words are also anagrams of each other. Can you find them ?
1. The ______ gender of this king of animals has an astounding _____ of hair around his regal and fearful face.
2. That's a ______ excuse, you cannot get away without giving us the _____ of the person who helped you in this theft.
3. Before each ______, it is customary to say Grace and end with _______.
1. The ______ gender of this king of animals has an astounding _____ of hair around his regal and fearful face.
2. That's a ______ excuse, you cannot get away without giving us the _____ of the person who helped you in this theft.
3. Before each ______, it is customary to say Grace and end with _______.
Answer
1. The MALE gender of this king of animals has an astounding MANE of hair around his regal and fearful face.2. That's a LAME excuse, you cannot get away without giving us the NAME of the person who helped you in this theft.
3. Before each MEAL, it is customary to say Grace and end with AMEN.
Anagram groups -
Group 1 : MALE, LAME, MEAL
Group 2 : MANE, NAME, AMEN
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wonderful fun teaser. Since I'm first I feel like I ought to say something profound!
You did good! Let's see more.
You did good! Let's see more.
Gotta agree, that was something.
good teaser, i actually figured it out!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! i got it. it was REALLY REALLY fun. keep 'em comin. i wanna c more!!!!!!
Wow, thanks guys, it feels good to get such nice feedback, lemme crank my brain cells some more and come up with something soon
wow... i didnt understand it at all... then i read the answer, and i was like D'OH!
Good job brainster. I enjoy yours and really hope to see more soon.
Thanks a ton smarty, I had fun making it too!
Good one brainster, keep these coming. By the way Happy Birthday
Thanks redraptor, for the comments and the wishes
Excellent Loved it :wink Keep em coming please
Excellent Loved it, Keep em coming please
Very nicely done. Good work.
Awesome . i actually got it and that is amazing !
Wonderful! Bravo! and, Best Wishes!
While I did get all the answers, I have only one 'nitpick'.
The last sentence ends with "...it is customary to say ____, indicating that it's looking for one word. Standing alone, I guessed "grace", however, that word didn't fit in with the letters of part-two of the other two sentences. I figured "Amen" *did* fit, however, the sentence (in my email box) did not say anything about "grace, followed by ____". If the original that came in my mailbox had had that last bit in it, then "AMEN" would have made perfect sense to me.
Other than that little pickiness, I did think it was very fun!
The last sentence ends with "...it is customary to say ____, indicating that it's looking for one word. Standing alone, I guessed "grace", however, that word didn't fit in with the letters of part-two of the other two sentences. I figured "Amen" *did* fit, however, the sentence (in my email box) did not say anything about "grace, followed by ____". If the original that came in my mailbox had had that last bit in it, then "AMEN" would have made perfect sense to me.
Other than that little pickiness, I did think it was very fun!
I like Anagram Triplets cnmne, that was very good, but a little easy. thanks for the fun
sorry brainster I give credit where credit should be. Kudos and thanks. Still embarrassed about that slip.
Dec 04, 2005
far too easy!!
Very easy, but great concept.
Thanks you guys! I logged in to braingle, and only then realized my teaser made it to the Daily Teaser! A first for me!
I ended up voting HARD because there was no way to vote impossible. The first blank was easy but the eay the sentences were structured the 2nd blank is impossiblthere is no way thet grace can be re-arranged to find words that would fit in the other sentences.
Thanks! I thought it was easy, because once you get the first one, which was pretty obvious, you know what the others have to be. I think the last one should have said "You say grace followed by____." But, the way I saw it, you DO say Amen before eating just as often as you say grace before eating, so technically, that way, it worked, but maybe a slightly diff. wording would clear that up. Thanks!
Loved this one, great way to start my Sunday, with an amen!
Very nice! I love teasers like this! Playing with words are my favorite thing. It was easy, but I loved it.
Very simple, took about 30 seconds to solve.
tricky but enjoyable
I love those kind of puzzles - I really love it when I can solve!
that was very good!!! i liked it a lot, it was very interesting!!!
I am with speediebean and shawneeo!!! The last sentence was worded wrong....clever though!
this is einstein, or samster. If you read this, loveme, than I'm not going to be able to do chat any more. please answer me with a comment.
I loved this one, smarty, because I could actually solve it! Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
It was a good one, but the last one says 3. Before each ______, it is customary to say _______. But in the answer it says ...Grace and end with ________. This needs to be fixed.
This is so stupid i never seen such 1
cute! that was fun, I like these alot
great one!!!!!!!!!!! loved it!!!! happy holidays everyone!!!!!!!!!!
can you do another one with longer anagrams?
Lots of fun. It was hard enough to present a challenge, but eary enought to solve once on the right track. I, too, thought of "grace" at first, but then realized that it was not a four letter word. So once I came up with "lame" excuse, it was easy to think of the amen.
Good job!
Good job!
1st of all-i thought it was easy 'n borin-no offence-2nd- i agree with girt 4 god
but thanks 4 tryn!!!!
but thanks 4 tryn!!!!
Just reread my comment. I meant "easy" not "eary". Excuse the typo.
sorry--girl 4 god not girt 4 god
speediebean said it well. cute, but inconsistent.
I didn't understand the directions. However, after looking at the answer "I got it"... an example would have been extremely helpful.
I'm a word freak, so I loved it. Easy, but fun! Thanks
Great teaser, it was pretty easy although I did get tripped up on the last one but finally figured it out. Good Job.
love it
Good teaser.... a bit easy!!!
An easy one!
Fun, fun ,fun Specially cause I got it so quick We likes that!!
i8thought it was really hard but i it was fun too!!!!!
here's me admitin that idint know what anagrams were
Great teaser, very fun, keep these coming
fun! loved this teaser. figured out half plus a little. thanks for the mind stretch.
Anybody have one with five-letter words?
i got 2 out of3. Thats good for me.
A little too easy, in my opinion. I gotta say the instructions were a little confusing at first, so instead of trying to figure them out, I just went right to the teaser, and got the answers. Going back to the instructions after I figured out the right answer, I still wasn't sure if they made sense, so you might want to look at that. Otherwise, good job! Hey, I like anagrams as much as the next Joe...
Thanks you guys for the helpful and constructive feedback. Well, someone went and changed the sentence to include Grace in the answer and happily forgot to change it in the teaser. I have submitted the correction so that it is consistent. There was no 'Grace' originally in my teaser! I hope people are more careful about corrections they make in future.
Brainster, thank you for not being offended by the constructive criticism, you obviously live up to your nic.
It really is a fun brain teaser, I enjoyed it a lot!! Keep up the great work!!
It really is a fun brain teaser, I enjoyed it a lot!! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks speediebean, well some of the comments do have some good pointers, and the rest, I would rather ignore than go into an immature confrontation. After all, we all are here to learn something new and have fun!
Very nice wasnt sure what a anagram was But I got the last two right Nice Job
Very nice wasnt sure what a anagram was But I got the last two right Nice Job
This was an interesting Braingle, however, like speediebean I only received part of the last line in my email so it didn't fully make sense to me.
That's was really easy, great way to exercise my brain b4 bed.
Great fun. Not too challenging but well written!
Nice challenge for a Sunday afternoon. Great job. Thanks for posting.
This was easy but fun - thanks for posting!
I, too, found the directions a little confusing.
I loved it and no nitpicking from me.
Ditto on the instructions issue - they must go with a different teaser.
Once I figured out what you wanted us to do, it was so very easy. Had to read the instructions over a couple of times, but that was okay as it was then fun AND easy!
Obviously, this is not the teaser in its original form. The complaints from 2005 make no sense as the word grace is not part of the solution.
I love reading the old comments that are no longer relevant.
Teaser was pretty easy, though as other's said, the instructions were less clear. After working out the teaser, the instructions made a lot more sense.
I love reading the old comments that are no longer relevant.
Teaser was pretty easy, though as other's said, the instructions were less clear. After working out the teaser, the instructions made a lot more sense.
instructions were perfectly clear; it was just a bit too easy
instructions were perfectly clear; it was just a bit too easy
The teaser is perfect in it's logic.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I got all of the words fairly quickly.
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