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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.
# = 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.
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: February 28, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 28, 2022
Times taken48,933
Average score70.0%
Rating4.74
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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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Level 59
Mar 1, 2022
15/20, though I got three of them from type-ins.
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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)
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Level 85
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. :-)
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Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Yeah, I figured slightly less time on this than usual because there's so many options early on :)
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Level 82
Mar 1, 2022
Is "stimming" not in the scrabble dictionary?
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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".
+1
Level 57
Mar 22, 2022
I thought that it was stimming too
+4
Level 76
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!
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Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Good idea! No need to give too much information, thanks :)
+6
Level 85
Mar 1, 2022
"Queried" also seems like it should be relevant to JetPunk :)
+1
Level 75
Mar 2, 2022
That's what I tried as well.
+6
Level 68
Mar 1, 2022
Wow, I got "swimming" from the very first clue x) I was shocked it kept working for the next four
+10
Level 59
Mar 1, 2022
I got zebra from the beginning, though swimming was probably harder
+1
Level 60
Mar 1, 2022
I got swimming from the beggining and i thought zebra was hard lol
+2
Level 65
Mar 20, 2022
The first words that I thought of were Zebra and Spamming
+4
Level 65
Mar 20, 2022
I tried spamming, slamming and slumming before I realised that swimming sounded more leisurely.
+1
Level 65
Mar 20, 2022
I got "quizzed" that way too lol
+1
Level 38
May 20, 2022
me too!
+1
Level 57
Mar 1, 2022
Great quiz!
+1
Level 69
Mar 2, 2022
Nice, I always enjoy category elimination quizzes. Wouldn't "plaza" work for Orange Category until number 3?
+3
Level 68
Mar 2, 2022
It works for me, maybe the yellow box wasn't quite aligned :)
+1
Level 69
Mar 3, 2022
Yeah maybe. I typed it in at least 3 times but it failed.
+7
Level 75
Mar 5, 2022
I started with "Zebra". :)
+3
Level 73
Mar 5, 2022
Me too. LOL
+2
Level 65
Mar 20, 2022
Same lol
+1
Level 19
Mar 10, 2022
mounting? for 8 letters and containing m
+1
Level 65
Mar 20, 2022
Doesn't start with S.
+3
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Doesn't start with S
+1
Level 62
Mar 20, 2022
Clamming isn’t a common leisure activity?
+4
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Needs to start with S due to clue #2!
+1
Level 72
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
+1
Level 72
Mar 20, 2022
and before you say it's not common, i do believe having sex IS quite common
+2
Level 68
Mar 20, 2022
Great quiz! Got them all, fun as.
+1
Level 63
Mar 20, 2022
Got three
+3
Level 58
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.
+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 :)
+2
Level 58
Mar 20, 2022
Much appreciated! :D
+1
Level 62
Mar 20, 2022
I can't belive the first word i was thinking of was the right word twice
+1
Level 74
Mar 20, 2022
I got the last three final answers in the third box. That seems unlikely.
+1
Level 49
Mar 20, 2022
Coincidence or not: zebra was my first thought in the beginning of the orange category
+2
Level 73
Mar 20, 2022
Slamming is one of my favorite leisure activities...
+1
Level 73
Mar 20, 2022
I enjoy slimming as well in my leisure time.
+1
Level 25
Mar 25, 2022
Or slumming
+2
Level 76
Mar 20, 2022
Kinda surprised I got all of these. Normally I struggle with these quizzes
+3
Level 51
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 🤞
+4
Level 63
Mar 21, 2022
"Baa"? Really?
+1
Level 61
Mar 21, 2022
...happy with the arbitrary selection of the other three words though, yeah?
+2
Level 74
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.

+2
Level 74
Jan 21, 2023
It's in every single English-language dictionary I can lay my hands on, so I think the debate is settled.
+1
Level 44
Mar 21, 2022
18/20 and I got zebra at first hint, for which is around 0.23% lol
+1
Level 45
Mar 21, 2022
I didn’t get past 3 letter word even though I kept typing in correct answers. What a dumb quiz.
+4
Level 68
Mar 22, 2022
The answers must correspond to the yellow box.
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Level 26
Mar 27, 2022
I used Quiz for the last one
+1
Level 30
Apr 20, 2022
I want to know how long this took to make.
+1
Level 26
May 21, 2022
In orange I guessed zebra from the start
+1
Level 29
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
+1
Level 58
Jun 18, 2022
omg. got zebra from the start, and guessed baa with 7 seconds left. crazy!
+1
Level 93
Jun 25, 2022
Haha, the last one was the first word I tried (though it stopped me after the first 4 letters)
+3
Level 72
Sep 27, 2022
Spamming fits all the criteria. According to my junk mail folder, it is definitely a common leisure activity to some.
+1
Level 74
Nov 8, 2022
Sadly, it's paid work.
+1
Level 18
Nov 21, 2022
Imo, queried should work. I tried queried but not quizzed ;-;, ends with ed, same meaning as quizzed kinda, imo should work.
+1
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" :)
+2
Level 40
Nov 28, 2022
Why doesn't smithing work for blue #3? it's 8 letters, ends with ing and contains an M.
+1
Level 68
Nov 29, 2022
Smithing is not a valid Scrabble word in the TWL06 word list.
+2
Level 28
Feb 2, 2023
why is smithing not on there
+1
Level 44
Feb 21, 2023
Smithing doesn't have a double M.
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Level 41
Feb 15, 2023
I thought scamming was a common leisure activity
+1
Level 50
Mar 23, 2023
I too find scamming as a fun, common leisure activity, if you want proof give me your credit card number
+2
Level 44
Feb 21, 2023
Nice quiz! I really enjoy Category Elimination series!