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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.

1,465 Questions

What is this ditloid 40a - is D T?

40 all - is Deuce in Tennis

40 a Double Top (in darts)

24 BBB in a P - ditloid?

24 Black Birds baked in a pie

(24 = four and twenty)

D plus h plus g plus S plus b plus s plus d equals the 7 d?

Doc, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey equal[s] the 7 dwarves.

Ditloid 8 z in o?

8 Zeros in One hundred million (100,000,000) - probably not the answer!

Ditloid Puzzle What is 100 Y O S?

100 Years Of Sleep (Number of years that Sleeping Beauty slept)

What has the author J C P Bus written?

J. C. P. Bus has written:

'Numerical solution of systems of nonlinear equations' -- subject(s): Nonlinear Differential equations, Numerical solutions