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Can you name the elements with 5 letters or fewer?
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nixdabom
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5 Letters or Fewer Elements Quiz
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Created Oct 28, 2009 in
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Featured Nov 12, 2009
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kmiz22
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Oct 28th, 2009 at 21:24 GMT
6 points
5 letters or less?...
peanut4
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Oct 28th, 2009 at 21:25 GMT
5 points
Strictly the title is wrong. Argon, Boron, Radon and Xenon don't have less than five letters.
rockgolf
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Oct 28th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT
2 points
It should be "5 letters or less", or "less than 6 letters".
Also, on the style page, move the font size of the answers up to 15 point. No reason to be so tiny.
nixdabom
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Oct 28th, 2009 at 22:27 GMT
2 points
Sorry. This is like my first game made
laughing_mariner
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Oct 30th, 2009 at 14:25 GMT
19 points
Five letters or *fewer*, surely? :)
shawnkay
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Nov 4th, 2009 at 06:22 GMT
3 points
I gave it a 5, although it should say "fewer" rather than "less".
shawnkay
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Nov 4th, 2009 at 06:24 GMT
3 points
We don't mean to be harsh by the way, this game is great (as the rating shows) :P
TomK
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Nov 4th, 2009 at 16:35 GMT
1 point
i was just about to highlight the fewer issue but it seems it has allready been done.
randomhandle
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Nov 9th, 2009 at 04:08 GMT
-3 points
Come on, nixdabom, fix the "fewer" thing in the title. Fix It.
nixdabom
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Nov 9th, 2009 at 20:07 GMT
1 point
Whenever I try to fix it, it says "this game has been locked and cannot be edited" So...
Game published: Nov 12th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT
egon14
:
Nov 12th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT
4 points
I love it!!!
Sneuticles
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT
18 points
9/10. "Let's think exclusively of four- and five-letter words," said my brain.
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NaGfH
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 05:53 GMT
-31 points
easy-peasy. only the ones that have entered the common lexicon have names that short (plus noble gasses)
JasonJP
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT
2 points
I like it! :)
BSF5775
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT
3 points
just as i was about to type neon too..
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ZapRowsdower
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:02 GMT
-16 points
What?! No Molybdenum?!
seanslavin33
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:10 GMT
8 points
wait, so I did take chemistry for a reason...Sporcle!
BrettCaudill
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:29 GMT
16 points
whenever i see "xenon" i think of "zenon: girl of the 21st century".
BamaRainbow
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT
3 points
@Brett: How about "Xenon: Warrior Prince"?
Yom
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 09:15 GMT
-1 points
Is this a tricky way to let us discover an alchemist secret recipe?
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Corabal
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 12:00 GMT
-8 points
I only got Argon and Neon, really kicking myself for not thinking of the most obvious gold, tin, iron, lead, boron and zinc -_-
rockgolf
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 12:16 GMT
6 points
Well,
nixdabom
, now you know why "this game has been locked and cannot be edited". See that is a good thing. Congrats.
match
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 14:19 GMT
7 points
wow, the periodic table sure does have a strong showing on Sporcle!
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jaymc
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 17:07 GMT
-12 points
"Five letters or less" would've been fine: http://www.copyediting.com/wordpress/?p=256&prod_abbv=ce
Dani
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 17:44 GMT
13 points
Thank you, Tom Lehrer
AEMC
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:03 GMT
17 points
Oh dear. My mind repeated thought "wood". At one stage I even typed it.
kagomeshuko
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 20:27 GMT
5 points
I zinc this was a clever quiz!
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diamondxyellow
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:36 GMT
-12 points
i forgot lead
chillysnow
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 22:38 GMT
3 points
@jaymc: Response no.4 to the article in the page you cite has it right - "five letters or less" wouldn't be correct. It's because letters are individual, discrete, can't be subdivided and are not continuous, whereas the author's examples are (such as time, money, mpg etc.)
Boomhauer
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Nov 12th, 2009 at 23:31 GMT
6 points
Missed both the most guessed and the last guessed. I'm a sandwich of averageness.
Catcher3M
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 01:26 GMT
3 points
Woot! Got 'em all. Great quiz.
zzz
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 02:38 GMT
17 points
I tried fire, air, earth, and water, and none of them worked. The hell with this quiz. It's all 21st century and stuff.
xander
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT
20 points
Great quiz, but it didn't occur to me to think of three letters. I was foiled by tin!
FroznMbryo
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Nov 13th, 2009 at 20:05 GMT
8 points
I got 9/10 by going through the alphabet in my head. Guess which one I missed?
Holyaxe
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Nov 24th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT
3 points
Argh! What is this? I can only write five or less char words now! -.-
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nixdabom
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Nov 27th, 2009 at 21:52 GMT
-12 points
shut up
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nixdabom
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Nov 29th, 2009 at 19:44 GMT
-6 points
Sorry. My friend wrote that.
Kyonkichi93
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Jan 2nd, 2010 at 18:16 GMT
1 point
8/10. I don't know how I forgot tin, though.
Qrystal
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Jan 21st, 2010 at 13:40 GMT
1 point
Guess the noble gases are above me... except Radon, which I know is a problem in basements in some parts of the world. So yeah, I missed Neon, Argon, Xenon... and somehow, Zinc, even though I went through the alplabet in my head to see if any came to mind that way.
jcrow09
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Jan 22nd, 2010 at 23:31 GMT
-3 points
9/10. Forgot Lead.
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