Moments of Adequacy: Word puzzle

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Can you tell what these seven words have in common?
1 Banana
2 Dresser
3 Grammar
4 Potato
5 Revive
6 Uneven
7 Assess

At Wed Feb 11, 06:41:00 PM PST, Phil said...: oo, I know, I know!

Fretter, too. (come on, work with me here... 'one who frets'...)
At Wed Feb 11, 07:58:00 PM PST, Alan said...: At least two sets of double letters?
At Thu Feb 12, 05:29:00 PM PST, Rob said...: THE ANSWER: Two sets of letters is true, but not the whole story.
I think Cal figured it out: you can take the first letter of the word, put it at the end, and flip it around and it makes the same word. Ie, they're horizontally symmetrical. Partly.
At Fri Feb 13, 12:31:00 AM PST, alleykat said...: ya, it's a vowel and consonant thing
At Sat Feb 14, 10:49:00 AM PST, Alan said...: Gee