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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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By A Vowel #90 Leaderboards
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Rank Who Time
2 Unidentified Riddlers
3. dmoren 17 seconds
4. mrakes 17 seconds
Incognito Contestant
6. Amj501 18 seconds
3 Hidden Solvers
10. ACM 20 seconds
Free Competitor
12. EmmaVB 21 seconds
Stealth Enthusiast
14. TomFrog 22 seconds
2 Visiting Thinkers
17. eltsac 23 seconds
3 Shadow Participants
21. marramgrass 25 seconds
22. JSlo 25 seconds
Shadow Participant
24. holgr 26 seconds
25. mikerastiello 26 seconds
Unregistered Riddler
27. Andrew Kemp 27 seconds
6 Undisclosed Thinkers
34. scottisloud 29 seconds
Secret Thinker
36. wixardy 30 seconds
Unregistered Solver
38. TX101010 31 seconds
Free Victor
40. sem 32 seconds
3 Unsubscribed Victors
44. rlorenz 34 seconds
Free Competitor
46. jonny 35 seconds
47. adamqp 35 seconds
48. elkgirl 35 seconds
49. TRezendes 👑 35 seconds
2 Unsubscribed Challengers
52. undercarbonated 36 seconds
4 Shadow Players
57. MsKinNJ 37 seconds
3 Incognito Contestants
61. Bigmike 39 seconds
62. Quam 39 seconds
3 Non-Member Players
66. sullust 40 seconds
2 Non-Member Competitors
69. steev 41 seconds
70. K^2 41 seconds
71. robbinamsterdam 41 seconds
Free Thinker
73. glucas 42 seconds
74. belehaa 42 seconds
4 Unregistered Competitors
79. otter 45 seconds
10 Undisclosed Thinkers
90. LaurenSKF 51 seconds
2 Unsubscribed Competitors
93. sww 53 seconds
94. offput 53 seconds
3 Hidden Enthusiasts
98. joekissell 56 seconds
99. rebecca 56 seconds
2 Mysterious Strategists
102. Dan 57 seconds
5 Unknown Players
108. raccoona 58 seconds
109. bwhough 58 seconds
110. eczarny 58 seconds
2 Secret Enthusiasts
113. charlesa 59 seconds
3 Stealth Puzzlers
117. pmele 1 minute, 1 second
2 Stealth Solvers
120. Peter 1 minute, 2 seconds
5 Unsubscribed Riddlers
126. kim 1 minute, 5 seconds
2 Non-Paying Adventurers
129. trewin 1 minute, 6 seconds
130. FredDuffle 1 minute, 6 seconds
131. yitz 1 minute, 7 seconds
8 Mysterious Players
140. laurengsnell 1 minute, 15 seconds
141. merlinthp 1 minute, 16 seconds
142. mattslangford 1 minute, 16 seconds
4 Stealth Riddlers
147. billo 1 minute, 20 seconds
148. bfordham 1 minute, 20 seconds
Unknown Gamer
150. marshally 1 minute, 21 seconds
Unregistered Explorer
152. JeremyK 1 minute, 22 seconds
153. giromide 1 minute, 22 seconds
2 Hidden Adventurers
156. scottaw 1 minute, 24 seconds
4 Hidden Enthusiasts
161. Diamond_Dog 1 minute, 27 seconds
2 Visiting Adventurers
164. Swifty 1 minute, 32 seconds
Mystery Player
166. mclazarus 1 minute, 36 seconds
167. BooBooBot 1 minute, 37 seconds
6 Shadow Puzzlers
174. AGS 1 minute, 44 seconds
4 Visiting Victors
179. slyyy 1 minute, 49 seconds
5 Mysterious Puzzlers
185. tylerb 1 minute, 55 seconds
186. juri 1 minute, 59 seconds
Mystery Competitor
188. AliW 2 minutes, 0 seconds
3 Hidden Challengers
192. plantbasedrobot 2 minutes, 7 seconds
Non-Paying Player
194. joshmuthumani 2 minutes, 8 seconds
10 Visiting Adventurers
205. Ianc 2 minutes, 26 seconds
Anonymous Riddler
207. ballookey 2 minutes, 31 seconds
208. dswallow 2 minutes, 34 seconds
4 Unregistered Participants
213. teisam 2 minutes, 45 seconds
214. d0mth0ma5 2 minutes, 45 seconds
5 Unregistered Strategists
220. itsmekt71 2 minutes, 48 seconds
6 Visiting Puzzlers
227. Marcintosh 3 minutes, 5 seconds
228. natebeaty 3 minutes, 8 seconds
229. stuart 3 minutes, 10 seconds
15 Anonymous Participants
245. Nathan B 4 minutes, 6 seconds
15 Stealth Thinkers
261. bumblefett 6 minutes, 4 seconds
262. jasonlfunk 6 minutes, 6 seconds
2 Anonymous Achievers
265. sepcot 7 minutes, 38 seconds
7 Non-Member Solvers
273. Birdie 9 minutes, 56 seconds
274. Raineer 10 minutes, 43 seconds
3 Unidentified Solvers
278. florida117 15 minutes, 12 seconds
9 Secret Adventurers
288. coachwatson 2 hours, 40 minutes, 25 seconds
Non-Member Thinker
290. Ani Friedman 6 hours, 37 minutes, 54 seconds
Free Participant
292. Grover924 8 hours, 4 minutes, 54 seconds
293. Pdkoenig 10 hours, 41 minutes, 14 seconds
2 Non-Member Puzzlers