[net.games.trivia] One More Word Game

glass@houxf.UUCP (11/15/83)

Can you think of a 10 letter word whose letters come from just the
top row of the typewriter keyboard?  (If it were a word, QWERTYUIOP
would be a correct answer.)  One or more letters may be repeated
(so that QQQQWWERTY would be acceptable).

Ken Glass
houxf!glass

mamula@fluke.UUCP (11/19/83)

longest word out of those letters. The answer was in the question and is...























                   TYPEWRITER!!


				  Don Mamula
				  John Fluke Mfg. Co.
				  Everett, WA
				  !fluke!mamula

gary@alberta.UUCP (11/24/83)

The word that you seek is 'TYPEWRITER'.  And as long as this is
the newsgroup for trivia, I may as well pass this along:  David
Kahn, in his book 'The Codebreakers', reports one theory that
the 'QWERTYUIOP' letters were chosen for the top row of the
typewriter keyboard for the express reason that typewriter
salesman of the time could spell out 'TYPEWRITER' without
having to hunt all over the keyboard for the letters.

Lost in the Frozen North,

Gary Thomas
U of Alberta