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Common questions
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What Six on the Dial is built from
Word list: ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon), released into the public domain by Alan Beale and Mendel Cooper. Filtered to remove slurs and crude terms.
Definitions: WordNet 3.1, the lexical database from Princeton University. Clues are edited from its definitions.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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Themes and clues: original, written for this game.