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Riddle

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:11 pm
by skinem
Got this in an e-mail from a friend today...I'm sorry if you've seen it already.

What common English word is 9 letters long, and each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word...from 9 letters all the way down to a single remaining letter?

I'll check back to see if anyone got it or to give the answer. Shoot, for all I know, there's more than one answer!

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:19 pm
by gailr
Hint: the letters are not removed, methodically, from the end.

-gailr

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:31 am
by sluggo
was this by chance a recent quiz on CarTalk?

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:58 am
by bnjtokyo
It wasn't presented in quite the same way on Car Talk, but there are five different answers nine letters long on their website. (Three begin with "s") They also have one ten-letter word and one eleven-letter word, although the eleven-letter word is not a common one.

You can find all these in the answer to the puzzler for Dec 25.

Yours in puzzler torment,

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:16 am
by Perry
It wasn't presented in quite the same way on Car Talk, but there are five different answers nine letters long on their website. (Three begin with "s") They also have one ten-letter word and one eleven-letter word, although the eleven-letter word is not a common one.

You can find all these in the answer to the puzzler for Dec 25.
Yours in puzzler torment,
Thanks for that, I added the hyperlink to your response. Now that I have seen the answers, I just feel soooo dumb!

Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:19 pm
by skinem
Answers are obviously right, but nope, it wasn't a Cartalk thing I'd seen...
I'd seen kind of a youtube thing.

I know just how Perry feels!

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:22 am
by gailr
Car talk? What is this car talk of which you speak?
Some sort of Saab-Porsche Hypothesis?

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:30 pm
by Bailey
gailr, you'd like cartalk, NPR, Saturdays, I liked the parts where they'd talk about repairs and mysterious car problems.

mark was-forced-to-listen-to-it-every-Saturday-at-work Bailey