Dreadful Dastardly Diseases, or Always Atrocious Ailments
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So the other day, I was in a pharmacy and I saw that they had a "cold 'n' cough" medicine. The alliteration caught my eye, and I wondered it would be possible to create alliterative names with other ailments. "Fever 'n' flu" was the obvious next choice.
Well, of course there was a puzzle in the making - and here it is:
The Puzzle:
Create as many pairs of alliterative ailments as possible. Each pair is worth one point; if one illness or symptom often occurs simultaneously with its pair, that pair is worth two points. Diseases may not be used more than once in an answer - this is mostly to make things easier for you guys so you don't need to worry about permutations.
Example:
Fever & Flu 2 points
Cold & Cough 2 points
Mumps & Measles 1 point
~Total:~ 5 points
Everyone is allowed to use the above pairs, so you basically start with five points.
How many points can you get?
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So the other day, I was in a pharmacy and I saw that they had a "cold 'n' cough" medicine. The alliteration caught my eye, and I wondered it would be possible to create alliterative names with other ailments. "Fever 'n' flu" was the obvious next choice.
Well, of course there was a puzzle in the making - and here it is:
The Puzzle:
Create as many pairs of alliterative ailments as possible. Each pair is worth one point; if one illness or symptom often occurs simultaneously with its pair, that pair is worth two points. Diseases may not be used more than once in an answer - this is mostly to make things easier for you guys so you don't need to worry about permutations.
Example:
Fever & Flu 2 points
Cold & Cough 2 points
Mumps & Measles 1 point
~Total:~ 5 points
Everyone is allowed to use the above pairs, so you basically start with five points.
How many points can you get?
open-ended
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
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So the other day, I was in a pharmacy and I saw that they had a "cold 'n' cough" medicine. The alliteration caught my eye, and I wondered it would be possible to create alliterative names with other ailments. "Fever 'n' flu" was the obvious next choice.
Well, of course there was a puzzle in the making - and here it is:
The Puzzle:
Create as many pairs of alliterative ailments as possible. Each pair is worth one point; if one illness or symptom often occurs simultaneously with its pair, that pair is worth two points. Diseases may not be used more than once in an answer - this is mostly to make things easier for you guys so you don't need to worry about permutations.
Example:
Fever & Flu 2 points
Cold & Cough 2 points
Mumps & Measles 1 point
~Total:~ 5 points
Everyone is allowed to use the above pairs, so you basically start with five points.
How many points can you get?
open-ended
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
$endgroup$
So the other day, I was in a pharmacy and I saw that they had a "cold 'n' cough" medicine. The alliteration caught my eye, and I wondered it would be possible to create alliterative names with other ailments. "Fever 'n' flu" was the obvious next choice.
Well, of course there was a puzzle in the making - and here it is:
The Puzzle:
Create as many pairs of alliterative ailments as possible. Each pair is worth one point; if one illness or symptom often occurs simultaneously with its pair, that pair is worth two points. Diseases may not be used more than once in an answer - this is mostly to make things easier for you guys so you don't need to worry about permutations.
Example:
Fever & Flu 2 points
Cold & Cough 2 points
Mumps & Measles 1 point
~Total:~ 5 points
Everyone is allowed to use the above pairs, so you basically start with five points.
How many points can you get?
open-ended
open-ended
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
asked 5 mins ago
Brandon_JBrandon_J
3,447244
3,447244
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