The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books, Vol. 2, Set 1
Twenty-One Central Five-Letter-Stems; The First Seven: NEAST, IEAST, INAST, INEST, INEAT, INEAS and REAST
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Suppose you are playing a crossword board game and have just drawn the letters
RBESATB. You mentally rearrange letters
for a minute and almost immediately “see” the seven-letter word STABBER and
begin to look for a noun or some other word with which to hook STABBER but
there aren’t any. However, there is one
noun, MAGNET, but because it’s on the far side of the game board it can only
hook to a word that ends in S. Still
you’re pleased with your draw because you see that ABBERST (the alphagram order
of RBESATB) contains the five-letter stem REAST. Why are you pleased?
Because this puts you just one letter away from drawing either an I or
an N on your next turn to make either IREAST or RNEAST, the wordlists of which
you already know by heart, having committed them to flash memory by studying Vol.
1, Set 1 of The AIWGMB.
You also know that these two are members of the Central Seven,
which makes them two of the most powerful six-letter combinations that one can
acquire for making seven-letter bonus words. Also, you see that luck is with you because there is an O on
the board to play off your two B’s for 14 points. But wait, you wonder, maybe STABBER has anagrams that end in
S? After five minutes of trying to
rearrange the letters into a word that you know, you give up and play BOB for
14 points, and are rewarded in your next turn by drawing a G and R to make
RNEAST-G, which immediately brings to mind the RNEAST story and picture of the King
(the iconic code for “G”) wearing STRANGE ARGENTS and GARNETS. Having the choice to hook either ARGENTS or
GARNETS to MAGNET, which is still open on the board, you make MAGNET plural by
adding ARGENTS to it for 74 points.
Not a bad outcome, but it could have been better. Having read and familiarized yourself with the stories, words and illustrations associated with the five-letter-stems presented in this book, Vol. 2, Set 1 of The AIWGMB, you would have immediately “seen” in your mind’s eye the picture of “DABSTER-the-STABBER” of “RABBETS, Inc.” with a knife drawn to attack Noah (the iconic code for “B”), his BARBETS, and two BATHERS in BERTHAS. Knowing that either RABBETS or BARBETS can hook to MAGNET, you play RABBETS, thinking your opponent might fall for your trap, believe that you spelled RABBITS incorrectly, and challenge you. But you, on the other hand, with a corrupted Little stab will do ya commercial running through your head, and the picture of Noah’s knife-wielding attacker firmly etched in your mind, know, with little chance of ever forgetting, that RABBETS is a valid word meaning cuts a groove into. To view for yourself the power of this imagery, turn to page 293.
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About the Book
This edition of The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books (The AIWGMB, Vol. 2, Set 1) introduces readers to the first seven of 21 five-letter-stems that are an essential part of Mentafile™, on-the-way, word-game strategy as described in Volume 1, Sets 1 and 2 of The AIWGMB. Amusing, emotionally charged, coded short-stories, illustrations and flash cards of the five-letter-stems that complement the Central Seven and Auxiliary Seven six-letter-stems of Volume 1, act to greatly expand one’s photographic-memory and flash-card recall of key seven and eight-letter game-words, i.e., those especially useful in SCRABBLE®, JUMBLE®, WORD TOWER, etc. Readers are also invited to play A Game Within the Game where they test their ability to quickly create short stories and sketches from computer-generated, accurately defined, word lists. One never knows where the words will lead, and the five-letter-stems, with their frequently long lists of esoteric, little-used words, can take one’s mind to some exceedingly bizarre, surprisingly memorable places. For example, when one adds a second A and another letter to the five-letter-stem REAST, official game-word programs will assign the following interesting list of seven-letter words: ABATERS (reducers of intense occurrences), ABREAST (side by side), CARATES (tropical skin disease), GASTREA (primitive microbe), TEARGAS (tearing gas), KARATES (martial arts), AEROSAT (air-control satellite), ERRATAS (typing errors). To play A Game Within the Game, one uses all of the defined seven-letter words and the game’s universal iconic code for the letter “A” (men’s ties, ties into something, or ties someone up). When the reader has made their story emotionally charged, used as few extraneous words as possible, and made a rough sketch to illustrate their story, they compare results with the author’s for a surprising, fun way to reinforce one’s photographic recall. See, for example, page 291.
About the Author
Frank H. Gaertner is a retired scientist and the author of over 50 scientific publications and patents in the biological sciences. His latest publication in the journal Vaccine, (Gaertner, et. al., Vol. 27, February 2009, pages 1377-1385) shows for the first time that a well known, immune-stimulating, disease-fighting molecule called interferon-gamma can be produced in economical multiton quantities, and delivered in an inexpensive, highly effective form. Even though experiments to date have mostly been done in cattle, it is all but certain that this exciting technology can be applied to humans, pets, and other animals. It is also anticipated that this technology can be applied to other cytokines and pharmaceutically active proteins. To the author’s knowledge, no one has followed up on this discovery. The ability of interferon-gamma to treat a variety of diseases, including cancer and those caused by viruses and bacteria, is well known. However, as it is currently manufactured and delivered, the drug’s harmful side effects and prohibitive cost are also well known. The ARC™ delivery system described in the above publication has the startling property of eliminating these harmful side effects by enhancing the cytokine’s activity by over 1000 fold. Many influential people, including the President of the United States, play word games such as SCRABBLE®. Therefore, it’s possible that such a person will, someday, see the above comments and act on them. If so, this edition of The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books will have done much more than simply amuse. Won't it be interesting to see how far this little butterfly, with its potentially life-saving message, can travel?