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You need 8 toothpicks to spell the word HAT by using one toothpick for each letter and five toothpicks to form the 'A' by overlapping two toothpicks for each leg.
To spell the word "FAT" using toothpicks, you can represent each letter with a combination of straight lines. The letter "F" requires 4 toothpicks, "A" requires 5 toothpicks, and "T" requires 3 toothpicks. Therefore, the total number of toothpicks needed is 4 + 5 + 3, which equals 12 toothpicks.
About nine.
It would require 5 toothpicks to spell the word "hat." The letter "h" would use 2 toothpicks, the letter "a" would use 2 toothpicks, and the letter "t" would use 1 toothpick.
it is eight thoothpicks
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You can take one toothpick from a group of nine and form the word "ten" by arranging the remaining eight toothpicks to spell out the word. This clever play on words demonstrates that taking one toothpick can lead to the representation of the number ten. Thus, even though you physically have only eight toothpicks left, the word you create symbolizes the number ten.
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It takes three bites to spell the word "yes" using the number of bites as the number of letters in the word.
Take six bones away to spell the word TEN
There are four phonemes in the word "spell": /s/, /p/, /e/, /l/.