This week's puzzler answer got me thinking about what others I could come up with. If you didn't catch it, the "perfect words" in the puzzler are words in which the number of letters matches their place in some list -- for example, "Mars," which is the fourth planet and has four letters.
A few I found:
Comet (fifth reindeer listed in "A Visit From St. Nicholas")
Wrath (fifth deadly sin)
Help! (only if you count the !, the Beatles' fifth UK album)
aa 2nd word in unabridged dictionaries, meaning a kind of lava
Sixtus I 7th pope, leaving off the "Saint"
Saint Zephyrinus 15th pope
Joshua 6th book of the Bible
John 4th book of the New Testament
Romans 6th book of the New Testament
I 1 in Roman numerals
II 2 in Roman numerals
III 3 in Roman numerals
one and two-thirds dozen 20
four score and seven minus sixty 27
(golden) rings - 5
Friday (6th day of week on calander)
dodecahedron (12 sides)
decathalon (10 events)
Jackson (7th president)
VanBuren (8th president)
Franklin Pierce (14th president)
A = 1st letter of alphabet
CEE = 3rd letter of alphabet
Michael - 7th child in the musical Jackson family
Marlon - 6th child in the musical Jackson family
Thirteeeeenth
Friday (if you start with Sunday)
Franklin Pierce (fourteenth president)
Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd & 24th president, rarely used first name, though)
Delaware (alphabetically the eighth state)
Australia (alphabetically the ninth member of the United Nations)
San Francisco (twelfth largest US city by population http://en....population )
K2 (second highest peak in the world)
Yellow (sixth longest river in the world)
re (from the do-re-mi etc. solfege scale)
indigo (from the red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet rainbow sequence)
nod (from Wynken, Blynken, and Nod)
This couldn't be funnier. After I posted the above, I was rummaging around the CarTalk.com website. I winced to find out my turbo diesel Jetta is on the list of chick cars, but I also found out that.....
the VIPER is fifth on the list of guy cars, and the Ford
F150 comes in at number four.
I tried to find my Jetta on the guy car list but I was redirected to a Martha Stewart website. Tom and Ray.... how do I explain this to my wife?
11/08/2009 5:45:45 PM
