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By A Vowel is a word jumble game. Each of the five words must be unjumbled — but each is missing one vowel. One word is missing an A, one is missing an E, one an I, one an O, and one a U.

Your task is to figure out each word, adding one vowel to each — but you can only add each vowel once.

Words may contain more than one vowel, but each is only missing one vowel.

There will always be a unifying theme behind the core words, ranging from subtle to not-so-subtle.

Words will turn green and "lock" if they are the correct core words. Words that turn blue are valid words that could work, but that aren't part of the puzzle's solution. Words in red aren't valid words. And words bordered in red indicate a vowel you used that you already used in a locked/correct green word. It sounds like a lot, but it's less confusing as you play.

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Rank Who Time
Unknown Achiever
2. jaydee 13 seconds
3 Secret Victors
6. mccllstr 18 seconds
2 Undisclosed Players
9. Amj501 20 seconds
10. sem 20 seconds
3 Shadow Achievers
14. TRezendes 21 seconds
Mysterious Victor
16. jonny 23 seconds
9 Visiting Competitors
26. mikerastiello 29 seconds
27. k._pow 29 seconds
4 Visiting Gamers
32. marshally 33 seconds
33. bumblefett 33 seconds
34. eltsac 33 seconds
6 Non-Paying Contestants
41. SAT232 35 seconds
42. d0mth0ma5 35 seconds
43. bfordham 35 seconds
Visiting Challenger
45. tbridge 36 seconds
2 Visiting Explorers
48. holgr 37 seconds
49. David cgc 37 seconds
Stealth Contestant
51. Quam 38 seconds
52. enigmadan 38 seconds
17 Shadow Adventurers
70. Peter 43 seconds
4 Unregistered Competitors
75. LaurenSKF 44 seconds
Unregistered Strategist
77. rlivsey 45 seconds
78. TomFrog 45 seconds
79. Khemileon 45 seconds
Stealth Contestant
81. raccoona 46 seconds
2 Unknown Solvers
84. billo 47 seconds
3 Anonymous Thinkers
88. ggodwin 48 seconds
Unsubscribed Participant
90. mrakes 49 seconds
91. mdrichard05 49 seconds
Free Competitor
93. rlorenz 50 seconds
94. steev 51 seconds
Free Enthusiast
96. Andrew Kemp 52 seconds
97. stuart 52 seconds
6 Mystery Competitors
104. Marcintosh 56 seconds
105. nertzy 56 seconds
2 Incognito Gamers
108. hryscan 57 seconds
Free Strategist
110. Marylyn 59 seconds
111. belehaa 1 minute, 0 seconds
7 Unsubscribed Players
119. Bigmike 1 minute, 2 seconds
120. Pdkoenig 1 minute, 2 seconds
2 Incognito Adventurers
123. yitz 1 minute, 3 seconds
124. LSR 1 minute, 3 seconds
3 Shadow Explorers
128. adamqp 1 minute, 4 seconds
2 Undisclosed Solvers
131. elkgirl 1 minute, 5 seconds
132. JSlo 1 minute, 5 seconds
133. kantgant 1 minute, 5 seconds
2 Non-Paying Competitors
136. eccephono 1 minute, 6 seconds
19 Stealth Contestants
156. TX101010 1 minute, 16 seconds
Unknown Riddler
158. charlesa 1 minute, 17 seconds
4 Non-Paying Competitors
163. bwhough 1 minute, 22 seconds
8 Unregistered Solvers
172. JeremyK 👑 1 minute, 27 seconds
Undisclosed Enthusiast
174. wixardy 1 minute, 28 seconds
175. leoncowle 1 minute, 29 seconds
176. trewin 1 minute, 29 seconds
11 Non-Paying Players
188. jazzy 1 minute, 42 seconds
9 Visiting Competitors
198. aburtch 1 minute, 51 seconds
6 Undisclosed Explorers
205. scottaw 1 minute, 57 seconds
206. sepcot 1 minute, 58 seconds
3 Unknown Participants
210. coachwatson 2 minutes, 5 seconds
3 Unregistered Explorers
214. Diamond_Dog 2 minutes, 23 seconds
215. FredDuffle 2 minutes, 23 seconds
13 Unregistered Contestants
229. Ianc 2 minutes, 47 seconds
2 Unregistered Competitors
232. mllove4 2 minutes, 49 seconds
6 Unidentified Strategists
239. mclazarus 3 minutes, 10 seconds
2 Unsubscribed Puzzlers
242. kricket5687 3 minutes, 28 seconds
3 Visiting Thinkers
246. juri 4 minutes, 10 seconds
16 Undisclosed Victors
263. scottisloud 1 hour, 9 minutes, 31 seconds
264. agiletortoise 4 hours, 37 minutes, 24 seconds
Stealth Strategist
266. TLee64 9 hours, 44 minutes, 51 seconds
2 Visiting Riddlers