Problematics | Playing cards, words and a classroom game

You may have gone through this before. I don’t remember the exact nine words I saw the first time, so I have made my own list today: BAIT CREW DIVE FORT LION MASH OPUS RANK SENT It’s in the form of a game. I select a word, you select another, I select a third, and so on, until either of us has any three words with one common letter, thus winning the game. Mailbox: Last week’s solvers : #Puzzle 23.1, Hello, Let’s number the coins #1 #2 #3 Strategy A: Flip #1, Flip #2, Flip #1 again At most by the third flip, all coins will be either TTT or HHH. To get all glasses heads down with three moves flipping two glasses at a time, the sequence of moves is 12,13,12 — Amardeep Singh, Meerut Solved both puzzles : Rohit Khanna, Amardeep Singh, Nishant Iyengar, Sunita & Naresh Dhillon, Gopal Menon, Jasvinder Singh Apart from solving #Puzzle 23.2, most of the following who have also got the first part of #Puzzle 23.1 correct: #Solved Puzzle 23.2 : Dipak Sarin, Angad Singh, Abhishek Anand, Joy Pandya, Aditya Sood, Vidhi Jain, Sumanyu Aggarwal, Vasu Handa, Shivangi, Yojit Manral, Madhuri Patwardhan, Dr G L Arora, Sanjay Gupta, Rina Kumari, Shishir Gupta, Ravi Sondhi & Rudra Sondhi, Lucky Singh Randhawa, Jaikumar Inder Bhatia Apologies to Dr Nakul Makkar for missing his name in the acknowledgements last week.