car, cone, topic, priest, caution

CotPi

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Apr 17, 2011, 5:51:58 PM4/17/11

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Source: http://puzzles.cotpi.com/2011/04/car-cone-etc.html

What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

Eric Sosman

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Apr 17, 2011, 6:24:31 PM4/17/11

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On 4/17/2011 5:51 PM, CotPi wrote:
> Source: http://puzzles.cotpi.com/2011/04/car-cone-etc.html
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> What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

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The name of each word's length shares at least one letter with the word.

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(With all that spoilage a rotten answer is to be expected!)

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Kevin Stone

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Apr 17, 2011, 6:42:16 PM4/17/11

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> What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

What do 'car', 'cone', 'take', 'train', 'truck' and 'watch' have in common?

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Kev

jonnie303

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Apr 17, 2011, 6:42:30 PM4/17/11

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On Apr 17, 10:51 pm, CotPi <puzz...@cotpi.com> wrote:
> Source:http://puzzles.cotpi.com/2011/04/car-cone-etc.html
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> What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

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All the words have anagrams formed in the same manner, viz. second
letter, third letter, first letter, then all the remaining letters in
the original order, giving arc, once, optic, ripest, auction
respectively.

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jonnie303
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Carl G.

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Apr 17, 2011, 9:03:48 PM4/17/11

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> Source: http://puzzles.cotpi.com/2011/04/car-cone-etc.html
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> What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

Spoiler...

Points (except for cars with electronic ignitions).

Carl G.

Myron Buck

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Apr 20, 2011, 8:26:00 AM4/20/11

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On Apr 18, 5:51 am, CotPi <puzz...@cotpi.com> wrote:
> Source:http://puzzles.cotpi.com/2011/04/car-cone-etc.html
>
> What do 'car', 'cone', 'topic', 'priest' and 'caution' have in common?

The length of each successive word forms a continuous sequence of
integers.

Or another more literal answer:
c, co, co, nothing, and co.

(What do they have in 'common')