Zach Sherwin author page
1 puzzle by Zach Sherwin
with Jeff Chen comments
See the answer words debuted by Zach Sherwin.
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Repeated trigrams? They must spell something! Okay … OKE ANI THI WOR CHI? Not OKE!
First letters? OAH ... oh, crud.
Middles or finals? KNHOH nuh oh.
EIIRI, that's eerie.
At least I amuse myself.
There are thousands of entries that contain repeated trigrams separated by at least once space. Custom coding can turn them all up, or a simpler RegEx search can do the same thing. I did enjoy that WORDSWORTH was featured in a wordplayish theme. It's fun to say CHINCHILLA, too, such chi-chi sounds.
Given how many possibilities there are, it'd have been great to have some extra element like the repeated letters spelling something, a revealer giving justification for these particular trigrams, or at least a couple of fresher theme answers. Maybe some DOUBLE DRIBBLED fun, or GRUESOME TWOSOMES?
Still, a smooth Monday solving experience.
ADDED NOTE: The HEADline should have been "Jeff oblivious, misses obvious theme." Glad I read Zach and ACME's for context — I would never have figured that out on my own!
Here's the RegEx that finds words that repeat the first three letters later on.