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My genius list:
Real pangram: INHIBITIVE
Fake pangram: HIVEBITTEN
It's like snakebitten only with bees. Yeah, I know, bees don't bite, they sting, but it's not a real word, anyway.
Difficulty: Medium
Took me several minutes of warm-up on the easy four-letter words before I was ready to take down the pangram. It then took me more minutes to achieve genius level. ENTENTE and INVITEE pushed me over the edge after a little dry spell.
Olio: I've never like the euphemism HEINIE -- too cutesy. Weirdly, it was once a popular nickname for men, at least for white, baseball-playing men. You can find around two dozen major league HEINIES, all of whom played pre-integration. The best was Hall of Famer HEINIE Manush, with HEINIE Groh and HEINIE Zimmerman not too far behind. The latter won the Triple Crown in 1912.
My genius list:
Real pangram: INHIBITIVE
Fake pangram: HIVEBITTEN
It's like snakebitten only with bees. Yeah, I know, bees don't bite, they sting, but it's not a real word, anyway.
Difficulty: Medium
Took me several minutes of warm-up on the easy four-letter words before I was ready to take down the pangram. It then took me more minutes to achieve genius level. ENTENTE and INVITEE pushed me over the edge after a little dry spell.
Olio: I've never like the euphemism HEINIE -- too cutesy. Weirdly, it was once a popular nickname for men, at least for white, baseball-playing men. You can find around two dozen major league HEINIES, all of whom played pre-integration. The best was Hall of Famer HEINIE Manush, with HEINIE Groh and HEINIE Zimmerman not too far behind. The latter won the Triple Crown in 1912.
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