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15 December 2008

Cats and Dogs (a little word game) →[More:]Restore each of the following to english wordhood by inserting either the letters D-O-G or C-A-T (in that order, but not necessarily consecutively):

1. arob
2. bare
3. deime
4. healn
5. hoos
6. hyren
7. librae
8. outs
9. peagy
10. ruht
11. sae
12. sen
13. sieln
14. srchy
15. srle

post by: Wolfdog at: 14:55 | 12 comments

(You may add letters at the beginning or the end as well as in the middle)

posted by Wolfdog 15 December | 14:56

1. acrobat
2. cabaret
3. decimate
4. headlong

I won't hog it all...

posted by taz 15 December | 15:04

5. cahoots

posted by muddgirl 15 December | 15:16

6. hydrogen

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 15 December | 15:23

Here's an extra-challenge bonus round for you, taz, since you've probably already destroyed the original list. Each of the following has had a four-letter animal name deleted from it (a different animal for each one, and the last four are names used specifically for males of their kind):

X1. inrn
X2. rge
X3. risoe
X4. sgg
X5. tet
X6. uluh
X7. rery
X8. rdo
X9. mbd
X10. rtay

posted by Wolfdog 15 December | 15:24

Oops, X10. was supposed to be rtay, not another 'uluh'.

posted by Wolfdog 15 December | 15:38

fixed X10...

oooh, tough ones! I might not be able to play with these til morning though, since it's time for supper. I only have one so far!

posted by taz 15 December | 15:47

7. calibrate

posted by kyleg 15 December | 16:15

one left to go!

X1. inrn ignorant (goat)
X2. rge ? this seems like it should be easy... but...
X3. risoe worrisome (worm)
X4. sgg smuggle (mule)
X5. tet theatre (hare) this was hard!
X6. uluh furlough (frog)
X7. rery crockery (cock)
X8. rdo burdock (buck)
X9. mbd bombard (boar) could also be mumbled/mule, except not just male :)
X10. rtay brutally (bull)

posted by taz 16 December | 02:20

got it!

X2. rge progeny (pony) I knew there had to be a pony in there!

posted by taz 16 December | 02:37

Wow! Tour de force, taz. I'm pretty sure if I revisited this thread in a couple of weeks I would have a tough time with the second list.

posted by Wolfdog 16 December | 09:09

*preens*

I don't know about these other lazy curs, though. Here's a couple more from the first list, lazy curs:

8. outcast
9. pedagogy

posted by taz 16 December | 10:25

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