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From the Ted Talk by Alex Gendler: Can you solve the secret sauce riddle?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kdpaiepnd by oevptrieas from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce riepce. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you to take advantage of the situation. As their top spy, your skills range from infiltration and subterfuge, to seakafcnrcig and reading faces for signs of deception.
You’ve tcaekrd the captors to where they’re holding the chef prisoner. From your hiding spot, you can see him on the other side of the glass, while in front of you an interrogator wearing hdnaepheos speaks into a microphone.
Open Cloze
One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been _________ by __________ from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce ______. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you to take advantage of the situation. As their top spy, your skills range from infiltration and subterfuge, to ____________ and reading faces for signs of deception.
You’ve _______ the captors to where they’re holding the chef prisoner. From your hiding spot, you can see him on the other side of the glass, while in front of you an interrogator wearing __________ speaks into a microphone.
Solution
- tracked
- headphones
- kidnapped
- safecracking
- recipe
- operatives
Original Text
One of the top chefs from Pasta Palace has been kidnapped by operatives from Burger Bazaar hoping to learn the location of their secret sauce recipe. Little do they know that a third party— Sausage Saloon— has sent you to take advantage of the situation. As their top spy, your skills range from infiltration and subterfuge, to safecracking and reading faces for signs of deception.
You’ve tracked the captors to where they’re holding the chef prisoner. From your hiding spot, you can see him on the other side of the glass, while in front of you an interrogator wearing headphones speaks into a microphone.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
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burger bazaar |
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chef answers |
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answers truthfully |
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interrogator thinks |
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chef answered |
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Important Words
- advantage
- bazaar
- burger
- captors
- chef
- chefs
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- faces
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- headphones
- hiding
- holding
- hoping
- infiltration
- interrogator
- kidnapped
- learn
- location
- microphone
- operatives
- palace
- pasta
- prisoner
- range
- reading
- recipe
- safecracking
- sauce
- sausage
- secret
- side
- signs
- situation
- skills
- speaks
- spot
- spy
- subterfuge
- top
- tracked
- wearing