pumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) (08/22/85)
The following word puzzle used to really be a dandy years ago before the advent of grep /usr/dict/words. If you take it in that spirit and try to solve without grepping, I think you'll find it to be a real challenge. The puzzle is to find a word in the English language that contains the following letters in sequence. An example is TICU occurs in the word fisTICUffs. Most of the following 30 letter-strings are unique. If more than 1 solution is known, the number of solutions appears in parentheses after the letter-string. Some strings _cannot_ be found in /usr/dict/words! Also, no proper nouns, adjectives, etc. are allowed. All known solutions (at least to me) will be posted in a couple of weeks in rot13 format. At that time I would be interested in whether any new solutions were found by netpuzzlers. 1. AGHE 16. NNIL (2) 2. AUTEO 17. OMAHA 3. BBLI 18. OUCA 4. CILA (2) 19. PHAZ 5. DHP 20. PPH 6. DIRO (2) 21. RIJU 7. DKE 22. RNDL 8. GHU 23. SEGA 9. HOUE 24. UERO 10. HQ 25. XIME 11. HSK 26. XOP 12. HYTH 27. YACI 13. MPTL 28. YELA 14. NKG 29. YRU (2) 15. NKT 30. ZVO