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I absolutely love riddles. I also love chain games. What a perfect match these two are. You all know how it works. If you get one right, then you post your own, and so on and so on. Enjoy. I'll start. This one is tough. No cheating.

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?


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Hmmm, give me some time with this one...I'm pretty good with riddles and word games...now let me think...

Got it!

STARTLING
STARTING
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I

-- Edited by DoctorOfDesire at 22:11, 2007-11-13

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That is freaking amazing. I didn't think that anybody would get it. This is one of the hardest riddles I've ever found, and it took me like 4 days to figure it out. I thought at first that you were supposed to take a letter off the end, so that messed me up. But I finally got it. Good job. You're up...

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I worked it out backwards. I figured it would be a word with -ing on the end, so started with 'I' and added a letter each time to (finally) get to 'Startling'.

Anyhow, have a crack at this little gem....

A man lives on the top floor of an apartment block. Every morning he rides down in the elevator and walks to work. Every evening he gets the elevator halfway up, then gets out and walks the rest of the way up the stairs. He has no choice but to do this, except when its raining. Why is this?

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He's a midget and can't reach the lift buttons for the top floor?

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He's a midget and can't reach the lift buttons for the top floor?


...except when its raining, when he can poke the buttons with his umbrella!

Nice one MiB, your turn.



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Okay....


A man kisses his wife goodbye before going to work one morning. He pops in to see her during his lunch break for a chat and again they part with a kiss. But, when he leaves work to go see her he notices the traffic lights are out and knows immediately that his wife is dead.

How is this?

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Bugger, I've heard a version of this before, can't remember the answer though. It'll come to me...

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I admit it. I'm stumped. Not only have I not heard this before, but I have no idea. I pride myself on being able to think outside of the box, and I know that I'm going to feel stupid when the answer to this is revealed...

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Got it! His wife is in hospital on a life-support machine. The traffic lights are out which suggests there has been a power-cut. Wifey go bye-bye!

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And we have a winner!

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Easy one now.....

A man is heading towards the middle of an empty field. When he gets there he will die, a fact he is well aware of. Why doesn't he turn around? 

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because he's heading out to be shot?

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Nope!

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Because he has jumped out of a plane with a defective or absent parachute?

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You are correct sir! The poor fellas parachute has failed to open! Parachutist go bye-bye! You're up...

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Okay.....


A man is on his first day in a new job. He is looking to go for lunch at the staff cafeteria. He comes to a door and sees on the front the letters CANT EN yet this is not right door.

Why is this and what is behind the door?

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Is it a really grammatically bad sign reading 'CAN'T ENTER'?

-- Edited by DoctorOfDesire at 17:33, 2007-11-18

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Nope.

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I have no idea and it's doing my head in lol

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Completely stumped on this one MiB, I give in cry

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Okay then....

The letters reads as they do because they are on the front of a toilet door and the "occupied" slide indicator is halfway between "VA - CANT" and "EN - GAGED"! biggrin.gif

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Are you f'ing serious? how were we supposed to ever get that? go again.

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Wouldn't have got that in a million years! Nice one MiB!



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David McKinney wrote:

Are you f'ing serious? how were we supposed to ever get that? go again.


Um...by using your brains and thinking laterally? wink.gif

Okay a simple one:

A man owns a peacock which sits on the fence between him and his next door neighbour. If the peacock lays some eggs and they land in the neighbour's garden, to whom to the eggs rightfully belong?

 



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If the Peacock layed eggs, it would be amazing as he is a fella! That would be his lovely wife, Mrs Peahen who would lay the eggs!

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Told you it was a simple one. wink.gif

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Ok, here's one for you;

What do the words ALMOST and BEGINS have in common?

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They both have 6 letters in them?

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Not that obvious MiB!

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Wouldn't it be great if that was it? I spent about ten minutes on this one, and I haven't 'figgered' it out yet...I'll think about it and check back later.

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They both have two vowels and four consonants ?

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Far more interesting than that.....!

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lol...figures.

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Would you like a hint?

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Please

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ALMOST and BEGINS

Try punching them into a text message, see if you notice anything!

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Is it that the number key combinations: 256678 (ALMOST) and 234467 (BEGINS) means they both follow the same formula of using the same key twice for the third and fourth letters?

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Not that obscure MiB, but have a look at the numbers you wrote!

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LOL...I'm not a math person. I still can't figure this one out. The math'll always stump me.

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Nothing to do with maths Dave! I think this one's been going long enough!

The answer is that the letters in both words are in alphabetical order. ALMOST and BEGINS are two of the longest words in common usage that share this trait.

Does that mean its my go again? I promise it'll be an easier one next time wink

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Doh!

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Righteo then, heres another one to get you thinking:

On the table in front of you are 9 identical gold coins and a balance scale. One of the gold coins is fake and weights slightly less than the others. What is the lowest amount of times you would have to use the scales to determine which is the fake coin?

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is the answer 3

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Nope.

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Once - providing you get lucky and pick the lightest coin first time round! wink.gif

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lmao.gif Lmao! Nothing to do with luck MiB!

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zero---just hold them in your hand. lol...idk, but these are always something like this.

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well i suppose 8 is a logial answer becuse on one side you put a coin then weigh the others in turn on the other without blind luck and finding it quicker so is it 8

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