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Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.

Name: Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.
Brand: dj51florida
SKU: 153746772
Price: 27.95 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (9117 reviews)

dj51florida

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Handmade
Materials: Wood

Arrange the wheels such that at least two 4-letter words appear at the same time. Each wheel contains the alphabet A - Z in order. It is remarkably difficult to find even one pair of words, but there are more to find. It is very addicting.... and has become my personal favorite of all the puzzles we make.
There are 17,576 possible unique positions of the wheels that will show 456,000+ 4-letter combinations. Only a few of these wheel positions will yield two words at the same time. An example: LAWN & PEAR will appear at the same time.

This is an historical puzzle dating from 1882 when it was made from paper. The inventor, WH Rieff, called it a Spelling Toy and Puzzle and it was meant to be both educational and entertaining. It has not been made in any format for generations to our knowledge.

You can use any word which can be found in a standard English language dictionary. Like Scrabble, types of words which cannot be used are abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes or words that require a hyphen or an apostrophe. Proper names and words that are spelled with a capital letter also cannot be used.
Jeff Scott Brown wrote a program for us which identifies all possible answers based on the scrabble dictionary. Thanks Jeff! There are 353 word pairs and 14 triple words possible! This far exceeds our expectations as after hundreds of hours manually searching by a dozen people we had only found 93 word pairs and zero sets of three words.

Made Hudson, Florida. Thanks to Rob Stegman from Rob's Puzzle Pages and the Jerry Slocum Museum at Indiana University for the idea for this very interesting puzzle.
To view a video on this puzzle please cut and paste this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YM_KrMAl-I

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9,117 reviews

This was a great gift for a doctor I work with. He really enjoyed it! The quality was very nice!

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Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.

taurmont Feb 22, 2024

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Fun toy for our grandchild. Kept him busy and was great quality. Very quick delivery. Would purchase other things from this store. Thank you for helping make our holiday so bright!

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Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.

Heidi Frahler Jan 9, 2024

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Loved by my granddaughter, and her parents too! A great thinking game without a screen, and kept her quietly engaged on a 10 hour flight too!

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Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.

Jan Harrington Jan 4, 2024

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Great product! Quality made, great gift

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Word Wheel Puzzle - configure the wheels such that you have at least two 4-letter words showing at the same time.

Christine Jan 3, 2024

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