{"id":2792,"date":"2000-07-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2000\/07\/03\/nnnumbers-answers\/"},"modified":"2018-01-15T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T08:16:07","slug":"nnnumbers-answers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/answers\/nnnumbers-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"NNN: Order! Order! (Answers)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>One possible answer is <i>heaven<\/i>. (Another is <i>seal<\/i>.) The words all go with numbers:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n  <li>first aid<\/li>\r\n  <li>second-guess<\/li>\r\n  <li>third degree<\/li>\r\n  <li>fourth estate<\/li>\r\n  <li>Fifth Avenue<\/li>\r\n  <li>sixth sense<\/li>\r\n  <li>seventh heaven \/ seventh seal<\/li>\r\n<\/ol><p>You could create other puzzles with the same premise:<\/p>\r\n<ol><li>amendment<\/li>\r\n  <li>hand<\/li>\r\n  <li>world<\/li>\r\n  <li>dimension<\/li>\r\n  <li>wheel<\/li>\r\n<\/ol><p>Of course, all of those could be <i>amendment<\/i>, or the first three of them could be <i>base<\/i> or <i>degree<\/i> or <i>estate<\/i> or <i>world<\/i>. But in most of the above cases I think the numbers given are the numbers most commonly associated with the given words.<\/p>\r\n<p>You could also do a silly version of the puzzle:<\/p>\r\n<ol><li>yousayyoudoandthenyoudon't<\/li>\r\n  <li>themotion<\/li>\r\n  <li>time'sthecharm<\/li>\r\n  <li>forbridge<\/li>\r\n  <li>ofwhiskey<\/li>\r\n<\/ol><p>But somehow I think it would be easier to guess the answer to that version.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2000\/07\/02\/nnnumbers\/\">Back to column NNN<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3109,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2792","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2792\/revisions\/3519"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}