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vespaboy | 11:45 Wed 23rd Nov 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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A few years ago a colleafue brought a sheet to work that had clues such as;


7D in a W


12M in a Y


The idea was to decifer the letter - 7 Days in a Week and 12 Months in a Year.


Does anybody know if this type of quiz has a name?


or could anybody provide a link please?

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These are called ditloids.
And if you search back through the pages on this site you will find hundreds of them - not a day goes by without someone posting some.

Yes - there have been so many of them that some of the new ones are getting rather stupid. You can have anything now ie. 8 = TES (8 o'clock = time Eastenders starts!)

long live ditloids
Just as a matter of absolutely no interest whatsoever the name ditloid came from the first ditloid ever, which was:


a ditloid by AS

a day in the life of ivan denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsin
..wow coyn!.. I never knew that, and it's one of my fave books....

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