Extra Credit
Extra Credit
Week of October 30
How many words can you create using only the letters in your first and last name?
The words must be at least three letters long, and no letter can be used more than once in a word.
For example (e.g.), my first and last names are: Timothy Madden, so I can find just a few here, um:
- mad
- madden
- moat
- mitt
- toy
- den
- add
- tame
- emit
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mr madden,
the hidden words for extra credit are:
dog
cat
giraffe
panther
flamingo
rachel k. 6 hour
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I’m not sure these are right but…..yea….. ill try
EMX=DOG
XRILWWG=GIRAFFE
WALTRSXM=FLAMINGO
FLTZNGI=HAMSTER
QLN=cat
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EMX=Dog
OLN=Cat
FLTZNGI=Hamster
XRILWWG=Giraffe
WALTRSXM=Flamingo
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dog
cat
hamster
giraffe
flamingo
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hey mr.madden!! did you enjoy your day off? and just to mess with you, the yankees won the playoffs and you are tall you should be
michale jordan for halloween.
-jared
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mrmadden Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Jeez, Jared, MJ?
Hm. I was thinking of being an avocado, but your idea has merit!
-Mr. M
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Cassandra Florian
and cold cord fair nail
sand can darn friar ail
fan rail calf card oil
ran rid lass car coil
Florida land loss corn fad
Drain floss lad scorn sad
road clan candor adorn loaf
raid class air sail load
Flan Lord lair snail cardinal
rain drain liar fail lard
These are the words I could think of.
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mrmadden Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Cassie,
Wowsers!
-Mr. M
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David Allen:
dive
lad
live
land
die
den
dad
all
via
lid
van
deal
lead
lend
end
led
nail
vale
dine
vane
vain
ill
lane
dial
vine
……….
That’s all I can think of at this moment!
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mrmadden Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
David,
Yikes!
-Mr. M
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Raunak S.
ran
run
ram
mark
hum
ark
Mars
rank
Uranus
Kumasi
Nam
man
river
sea
karma
aid
Asia
auk
Shiva
nim
vain
van
Han
marsh
him
I guess that’s it.
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mrmadden Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Raunak,
Nicely done!
-Mr. M
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Brendan W.: rich,were,BAD,when,Ben,where,ran,which,Dan,Brian,brain, fern,nerf(brand of toy gun),brand,near,far,cheer,beer,deer,and rear. 20 total words(there may be more but my goal was 20 so).
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Autumn L.
on
tums
lyon
sly
man
may
you
say
sat
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Debra V.
bed
bra
van
dead
sue
bread
dad
ban
dab
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These are all the words I could find in my first and last name.
corn,rag,ran,log,hog,nog,ache,leg,gale,hone,leach,reach,gel,nag,gone,organ,can,regal,chore,lean,hogan(an indian teepee),roach,goal,lone,race,care,car,hen,groan,change,char,learn,ear,each,clean,glean,near,gore,real,hole,arch,heal,lane,clone,gear,lear,loan,cage,age,charge,hare,her,gal,are,glare,glope,rage,angle,and angel
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Kathleen C.
1.lean 7.neal
2.then 8.heal
3.than 9.green
4.cat 10.leave
5.take 11.heave
6.cake 12.grant
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McKenzie R
Ken
men
rie
I GUESS IM DONE 4 NOW
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these are the words in my name
cord, cords, sad, rad, car, den, ran, can, name, son, nana, core, does, anna, cod, rod, sod, chore, chores, cores, non, code, codes, near, dear, dare, red, read, care, share, hare, hoard, has, corn, sorn, horn, done,
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Here are my words Mr. Madden,
phone
more
hen
gone
orange
ran
steep
step
pet
roman
nest
gore
pest
name
groan
tease
ogre
nap
nag
strep
strap
pat
ten
tan
top
ream
steam
pen
gone
game
gram
morph
mean
seem
seam
sean
the
soar
man
men
grate
steap
great
goat
grope
rope
grape
ape
stare
stephens
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mrmadden Reply:
November 1st, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Morgan,
Wow!
-Mr. M
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ummmmmm…….
Lauren Bassett
1.ran
2.rent
3.bat
4.set
5.seat
6.eat
7.bent
8.run
Can’t think of anymore!
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Lauren B. Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
oh yea um bass and base
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Jenny c: im going to use letters from my real name
an
eat
tear
cat
net
are
car
ran
neat
tan
rent
tent
clean
can’t (without the ‘ )
can
clear
nana
cart
tart
tar
tear
near
rat
art
this is so frustrating! i can’t think of any other words !!! but in a couple seconds i’ll think of a word and Mr.madden will have already posted this….. I just know it!!!!!
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mrmadden Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Jenny,
Holy cats! You’re right again! Hey, come on now, you can think of ten more, can’t you?
-Mr. M
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Hi Mr .Madden
These are the words that I came up with for my name
Done, Dine, gin, rig, ore, dig, sign, sin, greg, gig, goes, dee, org, dog, song, georgia, gorge, see, reese, ring, ringo, sing, ding, dong, grin, gord, rod, sod, soder, grind, rind, reed, seed, greed,sore, deer, geer, seer, Gene,red,rode, node,nog,side, gide, ride, dri, dries, ned,god,
I think that is about it for George D.
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Lexi P.
I Dont Know!! Ill give it a try!
Pain
Lay
Nay
Pay
An
I
A
Im tierd cant think of anymore!!!
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mrmadden Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Lexi,
Nicely done!
-Mr. M
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