# This Week's PUzzler **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [October 29, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769 "2009-10-29T15:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Caller\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@Caller\_X](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caller_X)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/1 "2009-10-29T15:34:01Z")
The higher volume of traffic trips sensors that cause there to be more and longer green lights along the route. ---
**Author:** ![genpichong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/87869e/32.png) [@genpichong](https://community.cartalk.com/u/genpichong)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/2 "2009-10-29T16:13:26Z")
Sounds to be a great idea as long as the sensor won’t go mad. ---
**Author:** ![Caller\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@Caller\_X](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caller_X)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/3 "2009-11-02T20:36:17Z")
Regarding the List of Words Puzzler, I don’t remember the whole list but I think they are all English words whose letters cannot be rearranged to form another English word. ---
**Author:** ![Dave52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dave52](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Dave52)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 11:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/4 "2009-11-03T11:39:58Z")
That occurred to me, too, but it seemed too simple (boring). Which means it could well be the right answer. 🙂 I wonder if there’s a fancy term for this, like “antianagramism” (I made that up)? Other possibilities that occur to me are some kind of numeric tie-in, or parts of common expressions (e.g., seventh + heaven) that have some common property. ---
**Author:** ![Caller\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@Caller\_X](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caller_X)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/5 "2009-11-05T16:02:32Z")
As often happens, the simple answer is the right one. I figured this one out by the time they got to the end of the list. Another such word is “puzzler”. ---
**Author:** ![techwriting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@techwriting](https://community.cartalk.com/u/techwriting)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/6 "2009-11-06T19:29:35Z")
With help from my technical writing class at Clemson University, we figured out the puzzler. Each of the words on the list contains the number of letters that corresponds to some essential aspect of the word. For example, carbon, the sixth element on the periodic table contains six letters; September, the ninth month, contains nine letters; the word fifth contains five letters and so on. Chris Benson and the Clemson University students in English 314 Technical Writing, Section 031. ---
**Author:** ![Caller\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@Caller\_X](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caller_X)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/this-weeks-puzzler/38769/7 "2009-11-09T16:27:43Z")
I still think my answer was right, but their answer is righter, and is the clear choice between the two. Unfortunately it also rings a vague bell; I wonder if this is another recycled Puzzler.