License plate game (LPG)
To pass the time while driving in
slow traffic, I invented this game: Take all the letters in a car’s license plate (in California , it’s always three, except for trucks and vanity plates).
You must think of a word that uses those three letters in that order. You’re allowed to add and insert as many letters as you
like (before, between, or after) but the original three must be in the word, in the original order.
For example, the letters VGY are
part of the word VIGOROUSLY.
GRG could be GRUDGE or
GROWING or GRUELLING. There might be
several words from any three-letter combination.
YNX, of course, is part of
the word LYNX . But also part of
two other words:
LARYNX and PHARYNX.
Ready? See if you can think of a
word that has these letters in this order:
DQY
Here’s another
combination:
BZG
And number
three:
UUU
Palindrome Fest
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Palindromes are words or phrases that read
the same whether spelled backward or forward. You know the famous ones:
Madam, I’m Adam.
(supposedly said by the first human on meeting Eve)
Able was I, ere I saw Elba .
(said by Napoleon on being exiled to Elba )
You can find plenty of palindromes
online:
Emil, a sleepy baby, peels a lime.
Enola Devil lived alone.
Epic Erma has a ham recipe.
Some are impossibly strained and
unreadable:
A dim lap and I did napalm
Ida.
Yo, bad anaconda had no Canada boy.
Here are some whimsical
palindromes I found a few years ago:
A dog! A panic on a pagoda!
Sit on
a potato pan, Otis.
Campus motto: Bottoms up, Mac.
Splat! I hit
Alps .
Do you know other palindromes? Send ‘em
in!

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