Thursday, 19 October 2017

a light-hearted question

I shall be heading back to Hong Kong later today, and as usual I have a puzzle to occupy your brain cells while I’m offline. However, It is not my intention to produce puzzles that no one can solve, so because my last puzzle (A Rotten English Question) remains unsolved, I’ve decided to post a much easier question this time.
What connects the following six clues?
● enthusiast.
● fruit.
● inundation.
● leader.
● location.
● quest.
Incidentally, this is what I call an ‘open-ended question’, meaning that I could have provided clues to additional entities that meet the connection criterion. However, six clues seems to me like an adequate number. Contrast this with An English Question (also unsolved), the solution to which is a complete set of five such entities. A sixth cannot be added.

I’ll be offline until at least Sunday, by which time I hope that someone will have submitted the correct answer to this puzzle.

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  2. I am terrible at these! I don't have a clue Dennis.

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    1. You do have a clue Pat. You’re just not using it.

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  3. I can’t follow your reasoning, but that is not the right answer.

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  4. Is it Albert Einstein?? Not sure though

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    1. I can see your line of thinking, but no, it isn’t Einstein.

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  5. Highly ingenious Jim. I would have to disqualify your answer on the grounds that it contains assumptions that not everyone would accept as fact, such as the existence of God.

    When someone finally gets it, you will see that the answer has been hiding in plain sight all along.

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