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Ditloids and Letter Equations
A ditloid is a word game consisting of abbreviations and letters. To solve the puzzle, the letters have to be figured out through creativity and logic to discover the common phrase or sentence. Examples are 4 Q in a G (Four Quarts in a Gallon) and 1 W on a U (One Wheel on a Unicycle). Letter equations, sometimes referred to as language or linguistic equations, are riddles involving common expressions containing numbers and words. The first letter of each word replaces the word itself leaving the reader with a puzzle to figure out.
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5 Points for a Try and two points for a conversion. (in Rugby Union UK)
What is the answer for hidden meanings brain teaser with Once over Lightly?
once-over-lightly
It means 'a quick and careless treatment'. (Said of an act of cleaning, studying, examination, or appraisal.)
What is the solution to the ditloid 1 m w to m?
to convert 5 meters to centameters?
if 1 meter equals 100 cm, then 5 meters equals 500 cm
What is the answer to the ditloid 55 D at P?
"55 Days at Peking", which is the title of a 1963 film about the Boxer Rebellion starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and David Niven.
Days and Nights of the Great Flood Days and Nights of the Great Flood
What does this code mean N and V and P and A and A are P of S?
Nouns and verbs and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs are parts of speech.
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie From the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence"
What is the solution to the ditloid 200 P for P G and M?
One point on a spear? One periscope on a submarine?
4 seats on a Volkswagon (bug) You can also do..... 4 Strings on a Violin
