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From: rkm@vectorbd.com
Subject: Re: rambling on "+= 3", minor spoilers
Organization: Vector Board BBS
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 03:56:08 GMT
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Greg Ewing (greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:
: In article <3bdmre$rpb@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>, andrew@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Andrew Southwick) writes:
: |> dblaheta@aol.com (DBlaheta) writes:
: |> >dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David >Baggett) writes:
: |> >> Clearly you do not mean "guess-the-verb".
: |> >Clearly he *does* mean "guess-the-verb".
:
: Actually, David Baggett was right - that wasn't quite the
: right term for what I wanted to say.
:
: [Deletia]
:
: The only way to "solve" a puzzle like that is to be
: lucky enough to guess the answer, which is why I described
: it (somewhat inaccurately) as a "guess-the-verb" puzzle.
: What I really meant was that it's a "guess-the-answer"
: puzzle, rather than a "find-the-answer" puzzle.

No, no, it's a "guess-the-noun" puzzle.

<grin>

-- Katy

--
Katy or Rich Mulvey
rkm@vectorbd.com

