What strategy do you use to solve an IQ question like this?

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Q1. What is the following word when it is unscrambled?: H C P R A A T E U
[Time Limit: 60 secs]
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I wasted 10 mins and couldn’t figure out the word for the life of me!!
 
swaptiongamma Wrote:
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> Q1. What is the following word when it is
> unscrambled?: H C P R A A T E U
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> I wasted 10 mins and couldn’t figure out the word
> for the life of me!!
Is this parachute?
 
Correct - but how do you go about solving such questions? (without GoogleGod’s help!)
 
Actually, no I didn’t … but thanks for the vote of confidence …
 
I always liked Jumble and other word games as a kid …. But I start with the most commom endings in words and try to work from there. Stuff like ate, ing, ers, ment … Or I try to combine the vowels together …
 
got it in like 30.. but no strategy, just came out at me… is there a real strategy to these things though?
 
Try this - which I pulled out of my a$$.
What is the following word when it is unscrambled?: T T A O I C N R O A R P S I N
[Time Limit: 180 secs]
 
daviskr Wrote:
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> I always liked Jumble and other word games as a
> kid …. But I start with the most commom endings
> in words and try to work from there. Stuff like
> ate, ing, ers, ment … Or I try to combine the
> vowels together …
But ‘ute’ in the prior (parachute) case is nowhere even close to being common ending suffix.
 
daviskr Wrote:
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> Actually, no I didn’t … but thanks for the vote
> of confidence …
Sorry :(
Maybe I’m just dumb, closest I got was thinking it’s some weird form of “chapter”
 
Yeah also assume that “c” and “h” will go together as in “ch”.
I’m sure there are tons of minute rules like this that work for 80% of cases. Also probably have to memorize rules for how many vowels and consonants together/apart etc.
I would imagine none of it is really rocket science. Just memorizing a few simple rules like that will probably boost your result, which I guess can be an argument against IQ tests which hinge on these types of questions.
 
cfagoal2 Wrote:
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> Procrastination
good calll … i was working with the tion … crap!
 
daviskr Wrote:
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> 180 seconds … booyah!
I like to dedicate this one to daviskr
 
cfagoal2 Wrote:
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> Procrastination
wow man, too good!
 
i thought it was something with conspiration
it’s pretty difficult when the words are that long and there isn’t an easy way to pull letters out
 
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