BRAIN TEASER FOR THE DAY

[HUSKER 37]

BRAIN TEASER FOR THE DAY

What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English? Would you graduate?

Okay you brainiacs, here is a brain teaser for you.

What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one-by-one?

And NO googling fer the answer!

 

[808Husker in KCMO]

I googled it.

 

[default_28]

Are we removing letters left to right or at random?

 

[redout22]

I know it but should I post it?

 

[HUSKER 37]

I know it but should I post it?

yEAH

I forgot it already.

 

[HUSKER 37]

Are we removing letters left to right or at random?

Random

 

[redout22]

There could be more than 1 but the one I know is....

Startling

 

[Parl Celini]

Are we removing letters left to right or at random?

Random

There could be more than 1 but the one I know is....

Startling

If we're removing letters at random, if you remove the (a) first...the word would be Strtling. So either we can't remove any random letter at anytime or that word doesn't work.

 

[Parl Celini]

My bad...I'm an idiot. Didn't mean to bring up a really old thread. It was on the first page still. Probably shoulda look at the dates before I posted.

 

[redout22]

Are we removing letters left to right or at random?

Random

There could be more than 1 but the one I know is....

Startling

If we're removing letters at random, if you remove the (a) first...the word would be Strtling. So either we can't remove any random letter at anytime or that word doesn't work.

Just saw this post but this is how it would work

startling

starting

staring

string

sting

sing

sin

in

i