What common English word is 9 letters long but each time you remove a letter it still remains a word, all the way down to a single remaining letter? Try it and I will give the answer later....
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Startling -
Starting Staring String Sing Sin In I
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
DING,DING,DING!! We HAVE a winner!! Does anybody else have a good puzzle/brain teaser?
[ September 18, 2007, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Jane Diaz ]
Posted by Ben Diaz (Member # 7319) on :
Two coins equal $.30 One of them is not a nickel.
Posted by Graham Parsons (Member # 1129) on :
Yes, but the other one is.. Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ben Diaz: .....One of them is not a nickel.
.......but the other is
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
I cheated...
snopes.com
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Thirty lashes with a wet noodle, Pat!! Bad, Pat! Your punishment is to come up with a better puzzle!
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Okay...Okay..
Here's one...
A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another palindromic number?
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
8991 ?
[ September 18, 2007, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
110
73037
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
What word has 3 consecutive double letters?
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Bookkeeping
Posted by Chuck Churchill (Member # 68) on :
Subbookkeeper has 4 consecutive double letters.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
sweettooth
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
charcoal?
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
charcoal?
[ September 19, 2007, 09:55 AM: Message edited by: Frank Droog ]
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Yep - Charcoal
What is it that when you take away the whole, you still have some left over?
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
wholesome ?
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
You're good Frank...
What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
Posted by Wayne Osborne (Member # 4569) on :
An umbrella!
..A man lies dead in a field- but 10 feet away from his body lies something which might have saved his life..What is it?
Posted by Nevman (Member # 332) on :
Guesses...
Storm Cellar Bullet-proof jacket Fox hole Defibulator Dead doctor His murderer .... I think I got it...Parachute!!!
Posted by Dana Blair (Member # 951) on :
What is it that gets wetter as it dries?
Posted by Dawud Shaheed (Member # 5719) on :
a towel
Posted by Jon Jantz (Member # 6137) on :
Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty sdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
Edited for spelling.....
[ September 21, 2007, 02:26 AM: Message edited by: Jon Jantz ]
Posted by Murray MacDonald (Member # 3558) on :
What word possesses more s's than possesses possesses? MUR
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