Doublets Puzzle

Marmel · 04-30-2003, 03:17 PM

I saw similar puzzles somewhere else on the internet, and decided I would make up a few of my own and submit them for your solving pleasure.

Doublets are a series of pairs of letters. These letters are obtained by taking the first and last letter of a phase, then the 2nd and 2nd to last letter, then the 3rd and 3rd to last, etc... untill all the letter in a phrase are used. For a phrase with an odd number of letter, the middle letter is a single 'doublet'. After this process, the pairs of letters are alphabetized.

That might not be perfectly clear, so here is a good example using the theme of this puzzle:

Example:
Title: GONE WITH THE WIND
Doublets: GD ON NI EW WE IH TT H
Alphabetizing: EW GD H IH NI ON TT WE

You job is to solve these 5 Doublets. They are all Movie Titles, and I made them pretty popular movies, and mostly shorter movie titles, as I am not sure how tough you guys will find this. I had a pretty tough time with similar puzzles....if you get these I will be happy to make some more challenging ones.

1) ea eb er hc ik ms pe ri st tk

2) ck da dh ac ys

3) a ii tc tn

4) fb gl hc iu t

5) a ao bn cd hw kk lw

Butter · 04-30-2003, 03:20 PM

3. Titanic
4. Fight Club

Maple Leafs · 04-30-2003, 03:21 PM

1. Empire Strikes Back?
2. Caddyshack
5. Blackhawk Down

Marmel · 04-30-2003, 03:21 PM

Butter, correct on both counts.

Marmel · 04-30-2003, 03:22 PM

Maple Leafs, correct.

OK, so I guess these were not all that hard.

Anrhydeddu · 04-30-2003, 03:47 PM

It appears that this is no different than a word jumble, regardless of how the letters were mixed up. Thus "aiitctn" can be instantly seen as "titanic".

04-30-2003, 03:20 PM	#2
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	3. Titanic 4. Fight Club __________________ My listening habits

04-30-2003, 03:21 PM	#3
Maple Leafs Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002	1. Empire Strikes Back? 2. Caddyshack 5. Blackhawk Down Last edited by Maple Leafs : 04-30-2003 at 03:24 PM.

04-30-2003, 03:21 PM	#4
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	Butter, correct on both counts. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

04-30-2003, 03:22 PM	#5
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	Maple Leafs, correct. OK, so I guess these were not all that hard. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

04-30-2003, 03:47 PM	#6
Anrhydeddu Resident Curmudgeon Join Date: Oct 2002	It appears that this is no different than a word jumble, regardless of how the letters were mixed up. Thus "aiitctn" can be instantly seen as "titanic".

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