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All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
AWL
BERLIN
BRICK
EVEN
FOURTH
GREAT
IRRATIONAL
LATER
NAH
NEXT TIME
NUN
PASS
PERFECT
PHEW
PRIME
SUM
Themes
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
"NO THANKS"Straightforward
KINDS OF NUMBERSModerate
KINDS OF WALLSTricky
HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTSDevious
One word per group
Theme name plus one word from each category.
"NO THANKS"Straightforward
WAYS TO POLITELY DECLINE AN OFFER+ 3 more…
KINDS OF NUMBERSModerate
CATEGORIES YOU'D FIND IN A MATH TEXTBOOK'S NUMBER CLASSIFICATION CHAPTER+ 3 more…
KINDS OF WALLSTricky
FAMOUS OR FIGURATIVE BARRIERS — THESE ALL PRECEDE 'WALL'+ 3 more…
HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTSDevious
WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE QUANTITY WORDS BUT AREN'T SPELLED THAT WAY+ 3 more…
Full solution
"NO THANKS"Straightforward
LATER,NAH,NEXT TIME,PASS
LATER, NAH, NEXT TIME, and PASS are all informal ways of saying 'no thank you' or declining something.
KINDS OF NUMBERSModerate
EVEN,IRRATIONAL,PERFECT,PRIME
EVEN, IRRATIONAL, PERFECT, and PRIME are all types of numbers studied in mathematics.
KINDS OF WALLSTricky
BERLIN,BRICK,FOURTH,GREAT
BERLIN, BRICK, FOURTH, and GREAT can all precede 'Wall' to name famous walls (Berlin Wall, Brick Wall, Fourth Wall, Great Wall).
HOMOPHONES OF NON-NUMERIC AMOUNTSDevious
AWL,NUN,PHEW,SUM
AWL (all), NUN (none), PHEW (few), and SUM (some) are homophones of non-numeric quantity words.