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Category Elimination - Words #1

In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
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# = the number of answers possible. Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
Using any valid Scrabble word from the TWL06 word list used in official Scrabble tournaments. More info here. Search the word list here.
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Last updated: February 28, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 28, 2022
Times taken108,718
Average score70.0%
Rating4.88
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Green Categories
1015
Any 3 letter word
✓
194
... which contains exactly two vowels
✓
51
... whose two vowels are the same
✓
26
... which starts with a consonant
✓
1
... which ends in -a
Baa
 
Orange Categories
435
Any 5 letter word containing Z or X
✓
378
... which doesn't contain a Y
✓
16
... which ends in an A
✓
5
... which contains an R
✓
1
... which is an animal
Zebra
Blue Categories
2068
Any 8 letter word ending -ing
✓
388
... starting with the letter S
✓
41
... that contains an M
✓
12
... that contains double M
✓
1
... and is a common leisure activity
Swimming
 
Purple Categories
850
Any word starting with Q
✓
51
... ending in -ed
✓
21
... that is exactly 7 letters
✓
12
... containing the letter I
✓
1
... and is most relevant to JetPunk
Quizzed
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91 Comments
ItzIngenious
+4
Level 66
Mar 1, 2022
15/20, though I got three of them from type-ins.
Stewart
+5
Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
I have fixed the type-ins now so that exact answers are required. (Although because there's so many options, you may get an answer accepted before you expected to)
dhyeypatel
+1
Level 43
Dec 12, 2023
shooting doesnt work for the ending in -ing one
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Dec 12, 2023
It works fine for me for the first 2 categories (as it should)
joeythelemur
+10
Level 82
Mar 1, 2022
Great quiz! The first one was slow and thought "no way I'll finish this in 3 min", but my brain must have flipped a switch as it seemed easier after that. :-)
Stewart
+1
Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Yeah, I figured slightly less time on this than usual because there's so many options early on :)
Moos1005
+6
Level 86
Mar 1, 2022
Is "stimming" not in the scrabble dictionary?
Stewart
+4
Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Nope, I suspect it's too new. Merriam-Webster says it was 1983 when it was first mentioned, being a contraction of "self-stimulating".
LoPieFive
+2
Level 59
Mar 22, 2022
I thought that it was stimming too
halpie
+4
Level 79
Mar 1, 2022
Stewart, I think you could change the last green clue to read "which ends in "-a" to make it a little more challenging. Reading down, people already know the two vowels are the same, and it makes it somewhat harder to start from the bottom and go up. Fun quiz though!
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Good idea! No need to give too much information, thanks :)
cornflakesfu
+9
Level 88
Mar 1, 2022
"Queried" also seems like it should be relevant to JetPunk :)
Westlund
+2
Level 80
Mar 2, 2022
That's what I tried as well.
ddddan
+1
Level 82
Dec 9, 2023
Quarreled is slightly too long...
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Apr 12, 2025
Haha, mine was "quipped". Not too sure where I picked that up or how I was able to retrieve it from the crofts of my mind. (English isn't my first language). The same actually goes for crofts I had to look up if it was actually a word and how it would be written, English being English it might as well have been croughts. And of course if it would work in this scenario.
NattKing
+6
Level 74
Mar 1, 2022
Wow, I got "swimming" from the very first clue x) I was shocked it kept working for the next four
ItzIngenious
+11
Level 66
Mar 1, 2022
I got zebra from the beginning, though swimming was probably harder
jbro
+1
Level 73
Mar 1, 2022
I got swimming from the beggining and i thought zebra was hard lol
MyMindWentBlank
+1
Level 61
Jan 27, 2024
I also had zebra! I love just happening to guess the answer on the first round of a category quiz and watching as it continues to be correct lol
QuizApe
+3
Level 70
Mar 20, 2022
The first words that I thought of were Zebra and Spamming
Zupity
+4
Level 67
Mar 20, 2022
I tried spamming, slamming and slumming before I realised that swimming sounded more leisurely.
YantheMan
+1
Level 66
Mar 20, 2022
I got "quizzed" that way too lol
Tim000w
+4
Level 72
Aug 1, 2023
That makes no sense:p Since quiz wouldve been accepted as the first answer.
thegyaldemsugar
+1
Level 37
May 20, 2022
me too!
Josiah
+1
Level 59
Mar 1, 2022
Great quiz!
AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 75
Mar 2, 2022
Nice, I always enjoy category elimination quizzes. Wouldn't "plaza" work for Orange Category until number 3?
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Mar 2, 2022
It works for me, maybe the yellow box wasn't quite aligned :)
AntiMatter8192
+1
Level 75
Mar 3, 2022
Yeah maybe. I typed it in at least 3 times but it failed.
PatrikH
+8
Level 75
Mar 5, 2022
I started with "Zebra". :)
pitzikat
+3
Level 75
Mar 5, 2022
Me too. LOL
Tornadoer
+2
Level 70
Mar 20, 2022
Same lol
yannbb
+1
Level 20
Mar 10, 2022
mounting? for 8 letters and containing m
Chrome
+2
Level 73
Mar 20, 2022
Doesn't start with S.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Doesn't start with S
Sammy87
+1
Level 61
Mar 20, 2022
Clamming isn’t a common leisure activity?
Stewart
+4
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Needs to start with S due to clue #2!
BiggieSmalls
+2
Level 75
Mar 20, 2022
slamming is most definitely a leisure activity. Slamming can be injecting drugs into your system or two people banging loud enough for neighbors to hear...lol
BiggieSmalls
+2
Level 75
Mar 20, 2022
and before you say it's not common, i do believe having sex IS quite common
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Great quiz! Got them all, fun as.
jf15
+1
Level 63
Mar 20, 2022
Got three
bebn123
+4
Level 60
Mar 20, 2022
For the green category, once the second clue came up ("...which contains exactly two vowels"), I tried "any" because I saw it in the clue above, and it's a valid word. However, the quiz didn't acknowledge it as a valid answer, supposedly because it didn't accept the "Y" as a vowel. I tested "icy" afterwards to see if that worked, and I got the same problem. I strongly encourage adding words that use "Y" as a vowel for that particular clue, since they do still follow the rules.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Thanks, I have now added those five words to Green #2, of course none of them work for Green #3 though :)
bebn123
+3
Level 60
Mar 20, 2022
Much appreciated! :D
Gossguy
+1
Level 67
Mar 20, 2022
I can't belive the first word i was thinking of was the right word twice
tshalla
+1
Level 77
Mar 20, 2022
I got the last three final answers in the third box. That seems unlikely.
Arthur1
+1
Level 56
Mar 20, 2022
Coincidence or not: zebra was my first thought in the beginning of the orange category
Froststar101
+1
Level 73
Mar 20, 2022
Slamming is one of my favorite leisure activities...
Froststar101
+1
Level 73
Mar 20, 2022
I enjoy slimming as well in my leisure time.
fractality
+1
Level 25
Mar 25, 2022
Or slumming
AlmostAGenius
+2
Level 85
Mar 20, 2022
Kinda surprised I got all of these. Normally I struggle with these quizzes
diokhan777
+3
Level 50
Mar 20, 2022
First time that my first two guesses (swimming and zebra) got me all the way from the first to the last clue 🤞
jsmay311
+9
Level 67
Mar 21, 2022
"Baa"? Really?
OllyVer85
+1
Level 61
Mar 21, 2022
...happy with the arbitrary selection of the other three words though, yeah?
Ferbin
+5
Level 78
Apr 13, 2022
It's not about that, obviously, but the fact that it's debatable wether it's an actual word.

Gosh, sometimes the snarkiness of people so full of themselves on this website gets tiring.

RobNobody
+3
Level 79
Jan 21, 2023
It's in every single English-language dictionary I can lay my hands on, so I think the debate is settled.
syphontion
+1
Level 43
Mar 21, 2022
18/20 and I got zebra at first hint, for which is around 0.23% lol
Mooka
+1
Level 46
Mar 21, 2022
I didn’t get past 3 letter word even though I kept typing in correct answers. What a dumb quiz.
Stewart
+7
Level 68
Mar 22, 2022
The answers must correspond to the yellow box.
alagasco
+1
Level 32
Mar 27, 2022
I used Quiz for the last one
ilikegeography18
+1
Level 30
Apr 20, 2022
I want to know how long this took to make.
Masonplays
+1
Level 25
May 21, 2022
In orange I guessed zebra from the start
Davideboss
+2
Level 36
May 22, 2022
I can't believe what i just did: I wrote swimming as the first one (1/2068) and it was right for all. Then I wrote zebra (1/435) and it was the one right
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Feb 14, 2024
same but I had 3 : got the purple one first-time too
chuckyboy1217
+1
Level 57
Jun 18, 2022
omg. got zebra from the start, and guessed baa with 7 seconds left. crazy!
PantsLobbyist
+1
Level 97
Jun 25, 2022
Haha, the last one was the first word I tried (though it stopped me after the first 4 letters)
Nursultan
+4
Level 75
Sep 27, 2022
Spamming fits all the criteria. According to my junk mail folder, it is definitely a common leisure activity to some.
redsplat
+2
Level 73
Nov 8, 2022
Sadly, it's paid work.
EthanCowley
+2
Level 17
Nov 21, 2022
Imo, queried should work. I tried queried but not quizzed ;-;, ends with ed, same meaning as quizzed kinda, imo should work.
Stewart
+3
Level 68
Nov 21, 2022
It does say "most relevant", and I think you'd find it tough to justify "queried" is as relevant as "quizzed" :)
moritzvw
+2
Level 44
Nov 28, 2022
Why doesn't smithing work for blue #3? it's 8 letters, ends with ing and contains an M.
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Nov 29, 2022
Smithing is not a valid Scrabble word in the TWL06 word list.
PersOfUniv9
+2
Level 35
Feb 2, 2023
why is smithing not on there
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Aug 1, 2023
Not valid word by the source
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Oct 10, 2023
It's also literally the comment right above yours.
jedinight1
+1
Level 49
Feb 15, 2023
I thought scamming was a common leisure activity
superquizzer
+2
Level 69
Mar 23, 2023
I too find scamming as a fun, common leisure activity, if you want proof give me your credit card number
Aarvi
+1
Level 33
Aug 1, 2023
Lol I actually did the same exact thing
herberttheperv
+1
Level 47
Aug 1, 2023
why is spamming not accepted as a common leisure activity. Kalbahamut does it all the time
meemee2
+1
Level 59
Aug 1, 2023
Really fun! Thanks for this one. Didn't think I would get them all, but I did.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 74
Aug 1, 2023
Woah I was not expecting to get 100% just like that, I feel like I got lucky with my guesses
Claptime9558
+1
Level 45
Aug 1, 2023
Starting didn’t work for 8 letter word ending in ing
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Aug 2, 2023
Works okay for me
Symmetrik
+1
Level 57
Sep 1, 2023
so many of these i was able to just use the same word for a bunch - but only 2 of them were actually the right word!
Chump772
+1
Level 56
Sep 2, 2023
I used swimming as my first guess for blue and was surprised it worked the whole time
DawnX
+1
Level 54
Sep 8, 2023
im genuinely concerned that 8% of people got the 4th purple answer but not the 5th one
pegwalker
+2
Level 16
Nov 25, 2024
wth is baa? (i'm not a native speaker)
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Nov 25, 2024
The sound a sheep makes
kirbykart
+1
Level 58
Mar 24, 2025
For a solid minute I could not think of a single five-letter word containing X or Z, and I am a native English speaker!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Apr 12, 2025
For the blue category.. scamming, and spamming... I was already typing scamming from earlier in the blue category and could continue to use it, so when the last one came up, I thought nah that won't be it, will it?? haha Then for a while the only other double m I could come up with was spamming haha.

It is two things many people do in their free time!

Ow wait there was one other I had come up with, skimming.. not too great either haha ( but my first association was skimboarding, not association with money or crime)

CannibalTurtle
+1
Level 32
May 6, 2025
I got lucky with my word choices and got a 1:07. I'm also just good at Scrabble, so that probably helps.
AntimatterYT
+1
Level 44
Jun 1, 2025
i guessed zebra at first and then it is the answer
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