Arrange the wheels such that at least two 4-letter words appear at the same time. Each wheel contains the alphabet A - Z in order. It is remarkably difficult to find even one pair of words, but there are more to find. It is very addicting… There are 17,576 possible unique positions of the wheels that will show 456,000+ 4-letter combinations. Only a few of these wheel positions will yield two words at the same time. 

An example: LAWN & PEAR will appear at the same time. This is an historical puzzle dating from 1882 when it was made from paper. It has not been made in any format for generations to our knowledge. We supply 52 answer pairs, but try not to peek! We do not know how many more possible words can be found. 

If you find any, please let us know so we can add them to the list! I am especially interested to see if more than 2 words can be found at the same time. I have not yet found that to be true but suspect it may be possible. You can use any word which can be found in a standard English language dictionary. 

Like Scrabble, types of words which cannot be used are abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes or words that require a hyphen or an apostrophe. Proper names and words that are spelled with a capital letter also cannot be used Made Spring Hill, Florida. 

Thanks to Rob Stegman from Rob's Puzzle Pages and the Jerry Slocum Museum at Indiana University for the idea for this very interesting puzzle. 

To view a video on this puzzle please cut and paste this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YM_KrMAl-I

Handmade by Creative Crafthouse in Hudson, Florida.

At Creative Crafthouse, we pride ourselves on offering high-quality, handcrafted wood mind-bender and brainteaser puzzles and games. We know that logic, reasoning, and analytical skills are all vital to cognitive development. The earlier your child or student can hone these skills, the better off he or she will be in life. No matter what your age developing problem solving skills,  patience, and determination are important qualities to cultivate.

We know that nearly all people enjoy an interesting challenge and will work at something for hours on end to find the answer. So we do our best to offer interesting, fun, sometimes magical and challenging puzzles with various degrees of difficulty and various types of challenges.  Many are our own design and some are historical designs that are unique to us.  Most are manufactured right here in our Hudson, Florida shop.  We have extensive laser skills along with CNC and traditional woodworking.  We are a small family business with 10 employees all striving for top quality and customer service.

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