Think of a tree in three letters. Add a state postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name an animal.
Think of another tree in three letters. Add another postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name another tree.
Think of one more tree in three letters. Add one more postal abbreviation and rearrange the five letters to name a mineral.
A:
Oak + Louisiana (LA) = Koala
Elm + Pennsylvania (PA) = Maple
Tea + Georgia (GA) = Agate
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ReplyDeleteGot an animal and a tree using the same 3-letter tree. Still working on the mineral. (There are very few 5-letter minerals.)
ReplyDeleteThree different trees...
ReplyDeletePaul, I will chew on that , but for now, I'm clueless.
ReplyDeleteOK, two different trees leading to a tree and an animal. Still no luck with the mineral. (I suppose topaz would work if we started with a plant rather than a tree!)
ReplyDeleteI've seen some pretty healthy ones, but not quite trees. The third does have medicinal qualities, though.
ReplyDeleteTopaz?...wait a minute...we're not talking about anything slang/illegal here, are we?
ReplyDeleteI'll go with what is probably Michele Bachmann's favorite tree and a mineral I've never heard of. Not an elegant solution, but it seems to fulfill all the criteria.
ReplyDeleteI believe you've got the right tree, but I'm surprised you've never heard of the Harlem Globetrotters.
ReplyDeleteSweet! No longer irate about using an obscure mineral.
ReplyDeleteIn hindsight, it wasn't the mineral that gave me trouble (it was on my initial short list of 5-letter minerals) but rather the tree (which was not on my initial tree list).
ReplyDeleteLorenzo, I went to the anagram server with "irate" and got back "irate"; so, could you possibly, uh, "provide" me with a clue as to the postal abbreviation you used to find the mineral you'd never heard of? If you never heard of it before, I doubt that I have.
ReplyDeleteIMA1972-010
ReplyDeleteSorry Paul, that was the answer, not a "hint". How about Latvia?
ReplyDeleteShame on yew.
ReplyDeleteTB: My comment was not meant personally.
ReplyDeleteIt just happened to have a three letter tree plus a state abbreviation (plus a homonymynous tree).
Oakal doaki.
ReplyDeleteI had KOALA, MAPLE, and BORAX(box +AR); rearranged to get POLKA RELAX OBAMA; paraphrased in my first comment.
ReplyDeleteI had to look up the mineral number for Raite before the Latvian connection (RIGA) finally dawned on me. The rearrangement server's database seems to be incomplete.