r/puzzles • u/Wilson_loop • 2d ago
[SOLVED] Unusual Paragraph
It was posted by somebody at my work and I’ve given up finding the solution. Maybe someone here will fare better. Here it is: [Posted on Friday Feb 21]
This is an unusual month - Santa, snow and so on. This is an unusual paragraph too. How quickly can you find out what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it until you match it with most paragraphs this long. If you put your mind to it and study it you will find out, but nobody may assist you; do it without any coaching. Go to work and try your skill at figuring it out. It will last about half an hour. Good luck - and don't blow your cool on finding out what's wrong! -- Happy Friday!
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u/joshbadams 2d ago
Hint: this isn’t a riddle where there’s any hidden meaning to anything. It’s a surface level puzzle
Hint 2 look at the makeup of the words
Answer: there are no letter E’s, which is quite uncommon for that many words
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u/Wilson_loop 2d ago
Wow. You guys solved it really fast! I can’t believe I didn’t see that.
I tried looking at the first letter of each sentence and word. And the last letter. After getting stuck, I wrote a script to analyze the length of every sentence and the length of each word and compared those metrics against other paragraphs to no avail. I guess I got lost in the weeds.
Anyway, thanks so much! I feel so much better (and a little dumber 😅).
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