4x4 Puzzle

[Suspence]

Album Black
Walk Away
Black Beauty
House Boat
Tail End
Glass House
Long Walk
House Maid
Black Mail CAT
Tail Pipe
Rat Tail
Side Walk
Tail Spin
Black Sunday
Walk Way
White House

Target Area
Battle Field
Bra Sports
Drink Sports
Easy Target
Football Field
MantlePiece
PieceMeal
Field Mouse CENTER
Moving Target
Night Sports
OutField
Target Practice
Puzzle Piece
TimePiece
Water Sports

Baby Talk
Better Half
Half Brother
Cabin Log
Off Chance
Off Day
Talk Down
Drop Off BACK
Half Empty
Gas Log
Girl Talk
In Log
Half Life
Lincoln Log
TalkShop
Write Off

Arms
TurnAround
Ball
Boy
Card
Floor Board
Forward
Mind
Turn Off
Out
Over
Right Turn
Snow Board
Switch Board
Turn Turtle
Board Up


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[This message has been edited by Suspence13 (edited 03-18-2002 09:56 PM).]

[ZutAlors!]

II. SPORTS bra, SPORTS drink, SPORTS night, water SPORTS
mouse and mantle suggest MICKEY, but I don't see other matches.

III. LOG cabin, gas LOG, Lincoln LOG, LOG in

IV. TURN around, TURN off, TURN out, TURNover, right TURN, TURN turtle, TURN up

[Death Mage]

1) BLACK Album, BLACK beauty, BLACK mail.... and I donno what the 4th is. BLACK & White? I don't think we can use &. BLACK glass pulls up a lot of hits, but I kinda doubt that too.

[Lucky Wizard]

I.
RUN away, long RUN, RUNway, mail RUN
Beauty QUEEN, QUEENside, white QUEEN, ???
HOUSEboat, glass HOUSE, White HOUSE, ???
WATER glass, WATER pipe, WATERway, WHITE water

II.
AIR battle, AIR out, AIR time, ???
GROUND area, battle GROUND, ground OUT, groundWATER

I stopped looking after I found these because I have to leave very soon. I'll do some more looking after I get back.

[Lucky Wizard]

II.
Football GAME, night GAME, practice GAME, puzzle GAME, GAME time
battle LINE, NightLINE, outLINE, timeLINE, water LINE

III.
BIG baby, BIG Brother, BIG day, BIG girl
dayTIME, downTIME, lifeTIME, ???
gas LINE, in LINE, lifeLINE, ???
GET gas, GET in, GET down, GET better
GOOD chance, GOOD day, GOOD girl, GOOD life

IV.
WALK around, WALK off, WALK out, ???
FOOTball, right FOOT, SwitchFOOT, ???
FACE card, FACE forward, FACE-off, FACE up
GROUND ball, GROUND floor, GROUND out, overGROUND
TIME card, floor TIME, TIMEout, overTIME
WHITE boy, WHITE-out, Snow WHITE, ???
floor LIGHT, LIGHT switch, LIGHT up, ???

[This message has been edited by Lucky Wizard (edited 02-23-2002 07:08 PM).]

[ZutAlors!]

A self-consistent set of guesses:

BLACK: Album, Beauty, Pipe, Sunday
RUN: Away, End, Long, Mail
HOUSE: Boat, Glass, Maid, White
BACK: Prat(?), Side, Spin, Way

GROUND: Area, Battle, Out, Practice
SPORTS: Bra, Drink, Night, Water
PIECE: Easy, Mantle, Puzzle, Time
Football
Meal
Mouse
Moving

BIG: Baby, Brother, Chance, Girl
LOG: Cabin, Gas, In, Lincoln
TIME: Down, Empty, Life, Shop
OFF: Better, Day, Drop, Write

TURN: Around, Out, Over, Turtle
FACE: Card, Forward, Off, Right
LIGHT: Arms, Floor, Switch, Up
Ball
Boy
Mind
Snow

[Suspence]

Sorry Zut and everyone else. "Prat" in the first group was a typo, it should be "Rat". I will edit it now.

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[Logain]

Well here's a couple guesses for sections 3 & 4. Obviously not correct, but maybe it can give someone else a few ideas.

Section 3
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Log (Lincoln,Cabin,In,Gas)
Second (Chance,Down,Brother,Girl)
Half (Empty,Better,Life,Day)
Back (Baby,Drop,Write,Shop?)

Home(Log,Second,Back,Half?)

Section 4
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Open (Arms,Up,Mind,Out)
Board (Floor,Over,Switch,Snow)
Face (Card,Off,Forward,Right)
Beach (Ball,Turtle,Boy,Around?)

Palm (Beach,Open,Board?,Face)

[Marvin]

Piece had occurred to me for part 2 as well, but maybe PIECEmeal instead of Easy.
Race for part 1? (RACEway, rat RACE, boat RACE, ... race away?)

[This message has been edited by Marvin (edited 02-25-2002 01:37 PM).]

[Suspence]

I see alot of right answers and alot of wrong answers. Any suggestions on how I should let people know what's right and what's wrong??? Or should I just sit back and let everone figure it out themselves???

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[Logain]

Suspence13, the best way is to bold the entire list in the top post and then unbold and confirm only guesses that are correct for a complete group of 4.

That's what most of us are used to at least.

[Suspence]

Thanks, Logain. Sounds reasonable. I'll do that now.

There, done. Oddly enough the only three groups of four correct answers were by ZutAlors.

As a little added bonus, Marvin's post contains some correct information, but did not meet Logain's definition of what I should confirm as a correct answer.


[This message has been edited by Suspence13 (edited 02-25-2002 09:29 PM).]

[Logain]

I might have one here....

Section II
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Sports
Target(Moving,Area,Practice,Easy)
Field(Battle,Football,Out,Mouse)
Piece(Mantle,Puzzle,Time,Meal)

Center(Piece,Field,Sports,Target)

[ZutAlors!]

I'm really liking BLACK for the first section, so I'll mix it up a little and go with:
BLACKmail, BLACK beauty, BLACK Album, BLACK pipe.

[Logain]

Black seems good to me too Zut, but I think it works better like this...

Section I
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House
Tail(End,Rat,Pipe,Spin)
Black(Album,Beauty,Mail,Sunday)
Walk(Away,Long,Side,Way)

Cat(House,Black,Walk,Tail)

[Marvin]

Gah! Stolen from under my very nose! Oh, well.

[Logain]

[Marvin]

For part 4, BACK around, BACK off, BACK out (outBACK), right BACK, switchBACK, BACK up.
PASS card, forward PASS, PASS around, PASS off, PASS out, overPASS, PASS up.
FIREarms, FIREball, FIREup, ...?

[This message has been edited by Marvin (edited 02-26-2002 10:29 AM).]

[Marvin]

A quick lunchtime thought for 4:
snowFALL, FALL over, FALL out, mindFALL (FALL off, FALL forward, FALL around?)
Apparently, I should add turtleback to my 'back' list.

[Logain]

I still like board for 4, but there are five words it goes well with:
card board
floor board
over board
switch board
snow board

[Suspence]

Good job, Logain.

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[groza528]

IV: top floor, turtle top, top off, switch top?

[Logain]

These first three looked promising...and some words for look and back are interchangeable, but it doesn't leave a good set of four words left.

Board(Snow,Switch,Floor,Card)
Look(Over,Out,Around,Forward)
Back(Turtle,Off,Right,Up)

In order to get something for mind or arms, I need to break up one of the above groups. Hopefully one of these is right, or an alternate combination of them.

Control(Arms,Mind,Switch,Over)
Open(Arms,Mind,Up,Switch)
Reach(Arms,Around,Over,Up)

[Marvin]

More random thoughts for Logain, for part 3:
Baby TALK, TALK down, girl TALK, TALK shop (empty TALK? LifeTALK?)
Better OFF, OFF chance, drop OFF, write OFF, OFF day.

[Logain]

I was just thinking TALK might work for Section 3. I think one of the key words is down. I can think of a lot of ___down or down____, words but hardly any that can be used with the rest of the words. The only word besides TALK I found that sounded promising (so far) is SHOW.
show down
show girl
baby show
day show

[GH]

In section 4, what about power?
ball, forward, over, switch, up (pick 4 )

[Logain]

Hmmm....any hints on if correct words have been at least mentioned, but just not a correct grouping, or maybe letting us know to stay away from certain words that link up to nearly half the group?

When you have words like small, back, pass, etc that can give you possible links to half the group, if they aren't even used, then dropping a hint like that would help. Otherwise since the combinations of which words go together becomes too large, this could drag on for days.

Just ask Death Mage BTW, I always wanted to finish that 3x3x3x3 *sigh*

[Death Mage]

Oh don't you go dragging THAT back up.

'sides, I never thought that one was very good anyway. Some were realy pushing it.

[groza528]

ISE

[Suspence]

Alot of folks have hit on the right words, but then put them with 5 or 6 words. You've gotta narrow it down and guess only 4 so I can comfirm it.

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[GH]

Permutations don't make the puzzle any more fun.

Section 4:

power ball, forward, over, switch
power ball, forward, over, up
power ball, forward, switch, up
power ball, over, switch, up
power forward, over, switch, up

[Marvin]

Don't we normally get it if we've given the correct 4 words in a single list, even if the list is longer than 4 words?

[Suspence]

Ok, I've posted all answers to which I've seen all 4 correct guesses, even if other guesses were made along with it. Also, as an added bonus, I've seen two correct answer words mentioned that have not yet been matched with all 4 correct original words.

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[This message has been edited by Suspence13 (edited 03-07-2002 09:58 PM).]

[Logain]

OK, now it's much better without the words that matched with 5+ answers, so that makes for set 2:

Talk,
Log,
Off,
Half (Better,Brother,Empty,Life)

Back (Half,Off,Log,Talk)

[Quailman]

For the last group, has anyone tried these:

OPEN Arms
Ball
Boy
CardBOARD
FloorBOARD
Forward
OPEN Mind
OutBOARD
OverBOARD
Snow
OPEN Switch
OPEN Up

[Quailman]

Or POWER Forward, Ball, Up, Over?

[Logain]

Looks like Quailman beat me to it. Darn work getting in the way of puzzle solving , but here's my list to try and confirm or deny these two words.

Arms Control
Control Card
Mind Control
Control Over
Control Switch

Card Board
Floor Board
Out Board
Over Board
Snow Board
Switch Board
Board Up

[Suspence]

You got one of them!!!

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[Logain]

So Suspence, was my solution for section 3 wrong then? It seemed to fit so well.

[Suspence]

Logain, I have not yet seen the correct solution to section 3. But, a post by you does contain the correct word that goes with th remaining 4 words in section 3, which are Better, Brother, Empty, and Life. Shouldn't be that though.

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