April 24 2011
Tampered Towns [BB307]
Within MUSHROOMED, once H turns to B, lies BROOME. Just as FORBEARANCE contains FORBES, as soon as the first A turns to S. Again, just altering one letter, can you find more Aussie towns – of five or six letters long – lying inside this dozen? Note, that only one letter needs changing, and the hidden Aussie town is lodged in consecutive letters.
1 badminton
2 remorse
3 bunnies
4 stubborn
5 bombsight
6 courage
7 verboten
8 honourable
9 leopardess
10 careerist
11 doorpost
12 procedural
Can you disguise another town, or create a new hidden set – with or without a category hint?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB306 SOLUTION: Heal/tow/soul, knave/isle/alter, fur/you/beech, rider/world/purer (Cups), inn/threw/ova, plumb/gored/current, root/weigh/coarse, symbol/loot/liar
Comments
Anthony Douglas — 24 April at 04:45PM
I can change a whole lot of letters to find Minto in badminton...
Sam — 24 April at 04:59PM
Had breakfast at #11 on the way back from Mallacoota last week
Sam — 24 April at 05:12PM
A couple more
13: advocate
14: poorness
RK — 24 April at 05:47PM
New category (no hint). Words are 5/6 letters.
15. moisturiser
16. diarising
17. Westminster
18. probation
19. equatorial
20. secularism
21. enhancing
22. manslaughter
RK — 24 April at 06:24PM
An adjustment:
20. secularity
Sam — 24 April at 07:04PM
15: ?
16: Paris
17: Minsk
18: Rabat
19: ?
20: Seoul
21: Hanoi
22: ?
DC — 24 April at 07:31PM
15. Tunis
DA — 24 April at 07:46PM
Thought I had 22 with Nassau.
RK — 24 April at 08:15PM
Another category. Again, 5/6 letters.
23. importance
24. seatbelts
25. Villawood
26. debugged
27. cornerstone
28. deflated
29. neither
30. Katoomba
DC — 24 April at 09:58PM
6. c
10. t
DC — 24 April at 10:09PM
4. d
8. n
I can get Dural out of #12 without any changes, but I'm not sure that counts. Nor Bundi (y?) out of #3 for that matter.
PRS — 24 April at 10:58PM
3 B (in Tassie)
12 C
19 Qatar
22 Manila
PRS — 24 April at 11:10PM
A dig in the dark here:
Exploration sites
26 Bugle
29 Keith
30 Moomba
PRS — 24 April at 11:16PM
13. Avoca
14. Lorne
DC — 24 April at 11:47PM
Here's a (probably) easy category
31. dilutor
32. hypotenuse
33. research
34. restaurants
35. polyunsaturated
Including a controversial one...
Anthony Douglas — 25 April at 05:36AM
19 Quito, I'm afraid.
RK — 25 April at 07:32AM
@PRS 26. bugle is correct
31. Pluto
32. Venus
33. Earth
34. Uranus
35. Saturn
Sam — 25 April at 10:45AM
Another grouping:
36: universal
37: longhand
38: opening
39: spongoid
40: gangplank
DA — 25 April at 10:50AM
Africa was on my mind, hence:
37 Ghana
38 Benin
RK — 25 April at 10:54AM
36. Niger
39. Congo
40. Angola
RK — 25 April at 10:57AM
36. or Nigeria
Sam — 25 April at 11:01AM
You lot are too quick, Niger was right RK
RK — 25 April at 11:17AM
Another one to go with my theme of 23-30.
41. Grampians
PRS — 25 April at 01:41PM
23. organ
24. bells
25. viola
26. bugle
27. cornet
28. flute
29. zither
30. kazoo
41. pion0
PRS — 25 April at 01:42PM
oops
41. piano