Quiz Guy John Chaneski calls this week’s puzzle “Three of a Kind, Four of a Kind,” but it has nothing to do with cards. The challenge is to find words that have either three occurrences of a letter or four. For example, if the letter in question is B, what’s a word that has three instances of it, and what’s one that has four? Hint: One of them denotes something that doesn’t stop until it pops, and the other appears in the song “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” http://waywordradio.org

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