Can you place 9 letters in a 3x3 grid such that each row and column forms a distinct 3-letter word? Rows are read left to right, while columns are read top to bottom. I will accept words that are found in this Scrabble dictionary.
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1We... Have a lot of [tag:word-square] puzzles, and I'm really sure you can find a lot of possible answers... Sorry, I'm downvoting this as I personally consider this as low-effort. – athin Dec 06 '20 at 08:33
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1Sorry if this is a repeat. Feel free to close. I don't normally make word puzzles. – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 06 '20 at 08:34
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4This is not exactly a repeat, but there are puzzles which are using 3x3 grid (or maybe larger) and acts like a crossword (with some given clues for example.) So simply asking the existence of it seems off. Anyway, if you are interested, here is a great 3x3 word puzzle: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/75268/28719 :) – athin Dec 06 '20 at 08:38
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I guess there is no point asking about the 4x4 version of this puzzle? – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 06 '20 at 11:04
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4Wikipedia: Word square. See variant forms/double word squares. – Daniel Mathias Dec 06 '20 at 11:25
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Well there you go...I had no idea that this was such a common puzzle. Daniel thank you for the Wikipedia link - very interesting. – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 06 '20 at 12:56
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@DmitryKamenetsky What can make these sqares specific and difficult is the inclusion of Diagonal words. Also to make it unique you can add the middle letter?? – DrD Dec 06 '20 at 13:07
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6guys come on stop minusing me!!! I've learned my lesson already! – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 06 '20 at 18:53
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4I’m voting to close this question to prevent it from turning into an open-ended list of all possible 3x3 word squares – bobble Dec 07 '21 at 14:59
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I voted to close it :) Never liked it – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 08 '21 at 11:41
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Z Z Z
Z Z Z
Z Z Z
You didn't say "distinct" and zzz is on the list.
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Amazingly the secondary diagonal also makes a word (orb or bro). Can we make the primary diagonal also a word? – Dmitry Kamenetsky Dec 06 '20 at 09:02
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4It would have been appropriate to include the fact that your update was taken directly from Wikipedia – Daniel Mathias Dec 06 '20 at 11:26
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works in 8 directions (left to right, top to bottom and both diagonals). One of many solutions I imagine :)
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