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The Twelve Game

A Word Challenge

Staring at the illuminated digital numbers on my alarm clock, I had an interesting thought.

What if, instead of digits zero through nine, there were capital letters.

Not every letter would be available to use, however. Only ones that could be legibly re-created on a standard nightstand digital alarm clock are eligible. For example, an E would be acceptable while an N would not be.

Here is the list of letters that qualify:

A C E F H I J L O P S U

Once I had squared away the upper case participants, my brain began making words out of those twelve letters. I came up with a few:

FACE, POSH, HULA HOOP

Now I challenge you, my esteemed and literate readership, to find some more words and phrases using only the dozen letters listed above (as well as below). Text-speak, slang, and all manner of creative spelling is acceptable to use for purposes of this friendly little competition. Please post your answers as comments.

Good luck and happy spelling.

A C E F H I J L O P S U

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Jason Picetti

Jason Picetti lived life with ALS by six simple words: Speech and movement compromised, spirit unaffected. He died on October 2011.

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