#1 BDELWZ ACFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVXY #2 BDEFHIKLMNPRT ACGJOQSUVWXYZ #3 BMPW ACDEFGHIJKLNOQRSTUVXYZ #4 AEHKLMNQRWXZ BCDFGIJOPSTUVY #5 AKEIBDJMHFCLG SQOWNTRYPXVUZ #6 CFILORUX ABDEGHJKMNPQSTVWYZ #7 ABCDEGIPTVYZ FHJKLMNOQRSUWX #8 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXY QZ #9 (extra tough) ADFGHJKLS BCEIMNOPQRTUVWXYZ answers: #1 All have angles at the bottom, along the bottom line. #2 All contain at least one straight vertical line #3 You must close your mouth to make the sound #4 The letters won't fall over in a 2-d world. They have at least 2 points touching the ground. serif don't count. Q decends! #5 First half of alphabet, second half. #6 Their position is divisible by three. You can easily imagine hundreds of different mathematical possibilities, prime, Fibbonocci, pi, etc... #7 All end with an 'ee' sound #8 The letters used on a telephone. #9 All letters on the middle row of a QWERTY keyboard.