Bobbrt  
Apr 25, 2003
| Is "Twenty-Five" really considered a separate word from "Twenty" and "Five"? I tried to look it up but didn't come up with anything. Other than that potential problem, I thought the answer was pretty cool. |
Codammanus
Apr 25, 2003
| I never noticed that these words don't contain the letter "A." That was fun and brilliant. |
misiu
Apr 25, 2003
| Very cool puzzle and a smart answer. What is the first number that contains the letter A? |
jimbo   
Apr 25, 2003
| I think many of the words are repeated. My answer was the first 100 words in an Arabic dictionary. |
puzzled_puzzler
May 15, 2003
| Brilliant and enjoyable. oh, and missiu, the first whole number is one thousand. |
RandomAccess
May 30, 2003
| Great Teaser. For those thinking that the words are repeated. If the catagory was pets/pet items would you consider cat and catnip the same word. Compound words are seperate words.
Once again a unique teaser. |
(user deleted)
May 30, 2003
| The first number that contains the letter A is 1,000 Dang, I knew that and I STILL couldn't figure this out *sigh*
Good teaser. |
CocoaPuff
May 30, 2003
| This was good. I only figured it out after I read the hint. |
od-1   
May 30, 2003
| Brilliant! |
(user deleted)
May 30, 2003
| this one was almost too easy |
Lyceum_
May 30, 2003
| I think the objection regarding "twenty" and "five" is valid. Catnip is a compound word and has a separate entry in the dictionary. "Twenty-five" is two words. |
(user deleted)
May 30, 2003
| very clever  |
MrIxolite   
May 30, 2003
| http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=twentyfive
Its a word....sorry |
rose_rox   
May 30, 2003
| Hm, I never realised those words never had an A. |
flynn
Jun 02, 2003
| I love puzzles like this that you can spring on friends while sitting around a table and no paper or pencil is needed.
Surely the first number than contains an 'A' is One Hundred and One?? |
krishnan   
Jun 03, 2003
| that was a great teaser. the answer was very unexpected |
aznboy
Jun 05, 2003
| I agree with Bobbrt twentyfive doesn't exist on www.m-w.com (or in Webster's itself) nor does twenty-five. Also grammar rules state when written as words, fractions and cardinal numbers consisting of two words are hyphenated. Examples: twenty-three, twenty-fifth, one-fourth, two-thirds. It is still considered two words.
There are a few exceptions where the hyphenated number has become part of the language, twenty-two (The bullet) is an example of a hyphenated two word combination bacoming one word in language.
I tend to trust Webster more than dictionary.com and the rules of grammar still apply. Technically wrong teaser but a great and fun teaser. |
ousgg
Jun 06, 2003
| Surely the first number containing an A is 'one hundred and one' |
kara
Jun 18, 2003
| Great teaser. But unfortunately the hint gave it away! |
sammyboy57483
Jun 24, 2003
| To ousgg:
Actually the first number that contains an "a" is "thousand" the "and" in 101 is actually a decimal. Math Class does teach you something! |
ghlover
Jun 25, 2003
| good teaser! one to try on my friends! |
alex1234
Jul 02, 2003
| The first number with an "A" is 1000, because in math I learned that the correct way to pronounce it is just One hundred one, it is not meant to have the word and. |
pernjie
Jul 10, 2003
| i didn't know all these numbers didn't contain A. gd job! |
PhilDunphy   
Jul 15, 2003
| read through all the comments agreed it is a good teaser, but I am too of the opinion that twenty five is two words and you do not therefore say 100 different words.
As for your response regarding dictionary . com and their explanation, it is a hyphenated entry in their website, hence 2 words. Also your argument falls down, as 99 ( or ninetynine ) does not exist in the very website you advise people to look in, to prove your argument |
fishmed   
Jul 15, 2003
| I still feel that the answer to the puzzle fits in that in various math texts that I have worked through in my education, hyphenated numbers are considered as a single word and still follow in that respect that twenty-five would be one word and not two. A similar puzzle was written in to a short murder mystery by Isaac Asimov and he used the similar "No A" answer to come up with the correct suspect in the murder. I believe the answer does fit, actually up to 999. |
triple5soul
Aug 05, 2003
| not bad of a riddle |
xiaobaby
Aug 24, 2003
| Very clever. Good job. |
adoontourious  
Sep 22, 2003
| wow surprising or not the answer popped into my head right away. Sometimes you dont know y but it just happens. Good tea§er tho |
Witness  
May 30, 2004
| To set the argument straight about the hyphenated twenty-five
.................................................
I saw that game show, and-whether twenty-five is a number or not-Mr. Ix did win the One Million Pounds so I guess it really doesn't matter now -----> he's rich. |
lucylizzy 
May 30, 2004
| I think this is a really great riddle -well done! Why is everyone getting so worked up about number 25? Remember this is supposed to be FUN!!!!! |
vbfreak55
May 30, 2004
| Very cute teaser!! I guess I never realised that the numbers from 1 - 100 didn't have an "A" in them!! That was really good! It stumped me. |
KimOHara 
May 30, 2004
| I'm an English teacher. Hyphenated words ARE unique words, not just groupings of their parts. "Mother-in-law" is a separate word from "mother," "in," and "law," for example. Granted, "mother-in-law" is also found in most dictionaries as a separate entry, but you won't find "cousin-in-law" - also a separate word with its own unique meaning. Sometimes the dictionary defines the most common occurrences of a certain type, and then leaves the rest to be understood from its definitions of prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
Our English language permits "temporary" compounds to fit the situation. They are real words, but they will probably never find their way into a dictionary, with few exceptions. "Know-it-all" was a temporary compound that made the cut and now most dictionaries include it.
The grammartips website says this: "There is a wide range of variation in the use of hyphens to join compound words. No rules govern all combinations, and the possible combinations are virtually limitless, so many of them will not be found in the dictionary. Furthermore, even dictionaries vary in their treatment of some compound words."
(see http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/hyphens1.html)
I say this teaser is valid.
(By the way, I would have thought people would have objected to "one hundred" before they'd object to "twenty-five" - but "one hundred" is also a compound word, two words serving the function of one word - like "high school" and "vacation home" - both of which mean something different than the sum of their parts) |
sockpuppet_frien
May 30, 2004
| Personally, I really dont think 25 matters because it does not say 100 DIFFERENT words! Also why get so frustrated about a teaser? It's not like they stole the million dollars from you or anthing! |
billybob_thorton 
May 30, 2004
| Very good. I got it once I read the hint. Regaring previous arguments about the number 25: Why is it any different from the number 26 or 55? "And' isn't a number, therefore it shouldn't count against Mr. Ix. Great teaser! |
humoeba 
Jun 03, 2004
| Hey! I never noticed none of those numbers had an A. That's cool! |
waker
Aug 04, 2004
| brilliant, no clue about the answer until i read the hint, that may have made it a lil too easy. |
shortstopsmile
Sep 30, 2004
| I like that one...I think I'll add it to my favorites list, since I thought it so clever, I told my friends! |
I_am_the_Omega  
Jan 05, 2005
| Coulda done it without it... just use three letter words ..you know, bet bit but bot pet put pit pot... etc. |
knbrain  
Jan 14, 2005
| You could donate the money you won to braingle |
FeaerFactorY666   
May 30, 2005
| Wow!!! I never realized that!!! Awesome!!!!  |
brain_dead   
May 30, 2005
| yes yes yes
sorry but i was right
yes yes yes |
sillygirl  
May 30, 2005
| cute one .. i never realized there were no As in the lower numbers before!! ya learn something new everyday!  |
Frogtvjr 
May 30, 2005
| Thanks Mrlx!! I love a teaser that makes you think, and provides a new view of common things. Even if it does bring out the "Detailers".  |
(user deleted)
May 30, 2005
| I liked this one because it will at least teach people that "and" is not a number.
Along this same vein, "Misiu" will be happy to know that you do not hit an "a" number until 1,000 (one thousAnd).
For those who did not get this, simply put, it is one hundred one not one hundred AND one. "And" does not enter into number until you add a decimal, as in $10.01 (ten dollars AND one cent).
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Question_Mark    
May 30, 2005
| STOP ARGUING OVER 25! It IS a number. Just like the rest! Oh by the way, good teaser MrIx  |
TsunamiSurfer  
May 30, 2005
| Hi:
I did not guess the answer, but I very much enjoyed the teaser, simply because other teasers I read was difficult for me to understand.
Thanks a lot for helping me enjoy something new and increase my data!  |
enna
May 30, 2005
| that was easy. liked it!  |
Chakoteya   
May 30, 2005
| neat |
lindy949
May 30, 2005
| i never new that any number between one and one hundred didnt hav the lettr a in it!!! dats kewl!!!  |
dbs241   
May 30, 2005
| Great teaser! I was stumped until I read the hint & then I remembered that there was no "A" until one thousand. Keep up the fun!  |
pyrodemun08 
May 30, 2005
| I love it. it was very clever.  |
babybabe1 
May 30, 2005
| i never realised dat all da numbers up 2 a thousand does not include da letter A. a clever and fun teaser.  |
drussel3   
May 30, 2005
| Clever, I got it though with the clue. |
BrownEyes   
May 30, 2005
| I got it right!!! even before i read the hint.
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cryptic_zealot
May 30, 2005
| Very nicely done. Never had thought about this until now  |
SummerStorm  
May 30, 2005
| I didn't even bother trying this one. Haha! Excellent teaser! |
tracknfield 
May 30, 2005
| I didn't even try. I just read the answer and I thought about it. That was a ver good one. Keep it up!  |
darthforman  
May 30, 2005
| Good one, It's an awesome trick too. Very good.  |
Kukmiester  
May 30, 2005
| i got it after the hint... otherwise I doubt I would have...good one!  |
WA2TTD 
May 30, 2005
| Nice puzzle. I knew the answer, as I'd heard this question before. Possibly in an email joke. Good job.  |
WA2TTD 
May 30, 2005
| Nice puzzle. I knew the answer, as I'd heard this question before. Possibly in an email joke. Good job.  |
zizzapizzaz 
May 30, 2005
| that was cool- i never noticed that  |
gamegirl 
May 30, 2005
| I loved that one. Very cool!!!  |
boakley2 
May 30, 2005
| that was very good 1 now thats what im talking about that was fun  |
Javian  
May 30, 2005
| Great teaser!!  |
amn22492   
May 30, 2005
| I really didn't know that 1, until I saw the hint. I liked that 1 a lot!  |
FamilyInFilm 
May 30, 2005
| I never noticed that and would not have thought of it in a million years! |
padme  
May 30, 2005
| i didnt get it |
Spice_2   
May 30, 2005
| I would just like to say that Twenty-five is a word whether it's in Webster's or not, because pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosis isn't in Webster's but it IS on dictionary.com and in the Oxford English Dictionary. And if it wasn't a word, then I would'nt have gotten it wrong on my spelling test last year when I didn't add in the hyphen... |
spinky93 
May 30, 2005
| THat WAS AWESOME!!! its like the first daily teaser i got right!!! AwEsOmE!!  |
riddlelover  
May 30, 2005
| I love it! And i actually figured it out! Great riddle! Lotsa' fun!  |
smosaka 
May 30, 2005
| Wow! That's so cool! I had NO idea what the answer was! |
cicibonita 
May 30, 2005
| it was kool!!  |
RichNCoco  
May 30, 2005
| You know what, ignore all these comments on word technicalities.... I got the answer right and it was fun! Good job!  |
triskit   
Jun 02, 2005
| what about foar? (4)  |
MrIxolite   
Jun 03, 2005
| My goodness you are right. I also forgot Juan, Sevan and Ate. Boy is my face red  |
boredom 
Feb 15, 2006
| great, one of my favorites  |
Vigo95   
Apr 05, 2006
|
LOVE THIS |
GebbieRose   
Jun 02, 2006
| WOW!  |
kbs414
Jun 02, 2006
| Hmm.. never thought of this.. a good teaser.
BTW, isn't the first one with an A one-hundred-And-one..? |
stang99   
Jun 02, 2006
| Yo, Pal that was great  |
OldChinaHand  
Jun 02, 2006
| This was really a fun teaser. Well done.
A new game show question: "In 90 seconds give me your best excuse for how this teaser got you, not. Start the clock!"
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bradon182001   
Jun 02, 2006
| I had to look at the hint, but then I got it.Good, fun teaser.  |
kingfisherqueen 
Jun 02, 2006
| That was really really good!!!
A great teaser, and looking back on it, it seems easy but you had me stumped!  |
BeckyD 
Jun 02, 2006
| I thought this was one of the more brilliant teasers I've seen yet!!! I never would've thunk of just counting to a hundred!! I give this one a full five stars!! *****  |
kukuzyavochka  
Jun 02, 2006
| This was pretty easy for me, but still a bit fun.
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pumbani  
Jun 02, 2006
| Okay I'm quite interested in the whole argument against saying, "one hundred and one." Can anyone tell me if this just applies to American English, or is it true of proper english too? |
yipiyuk   
Jun 02, 2006
| Really great teaser! I never noticed before that the basic numbers (before 1,000) don't use the letter "a" - AMAZING!! |
udoboy   
Jun 02, 2006
| "One hundred AND one" is not a number; it's a mathematical espression 100 + 1
If you mean 101, say "one hundred one." |
ticaboo 
Jun 02, 2006
| Thought it was a great brain teaser.  |
learningchinese  
Jun 02, 2006
| HEN HAO! (VERY GOOD)
XIEXIE NI (THANK YOU)
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Neek   
Jun 02, 2006
| I've heard this one somewhere too. Good one! |
doka13   
Jun 02, 2006
| Heck yes!! I totally got that one after the hint.  |
iteachkids   
Jun 02, 2006
| I, too, could not have gotten it without the hint - I LOVED IT!
... and I am ALL FOR OldChinaHand's new game show. You are one clever Braingler, OCH!
... learningchinese, I love your new self!!!  |
xeses   
Jun 02, 2006
| a great puzzle, but alas, I feel it is yet another with dazzling wit, but pretty hard to solve deductively. |
scallio   
Jun 02, 2006
| Good one, Mr. Ixolite! Very funny indeed.
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AwwwSweet 
Jun 02, 2006
| Great teaser, MrIxolite!
*hugs* to LC.  |
miss_mary_b 
Jun 02, 2006
| I loved that one! And I actually got it! (Which is pretty unusual for a lamebrain like me ) Okay, so I did look at the hint... anyways, I liked that one! |
bookwormRLB
Jun 02, 2006
| This is a good one, although in your answer it might have been a good idea to explain that the first number to appear with the letter "A" is one thousand. I never would have figured it out if it hand been for a 'useless facts' e-mail I'd gotten. |
Winstonian
Jun 02, 2006
| A good one, although the hint gave it away.
I did enjoy it. |
azbee123   
Jun 02, 2006
| that was soooo cute! definetley going into my favorites!!!  |
elshawno   
Jun 02, 2006
| loved it!
awesome job...  |
krnsspot
Jun 02, 2006
| very very clever |
rhmaustin   
Jun 02, 2006
| This was one of those where either you already knew the answer or you didn't. |
mover16 
Jun 02, 2006
| That was my favorite teaser so far Thats definately going on my favorites list. If I hadn't have looked at the answer i would have never got it I would have been stumped for days. who ever did this, it was great. Nice Job.  |
Stuff1  
Jun 02, 2006
| Good teaser! Quit nitpickin.(how many words is that?) Whether twenty-five is one or two words.....the 100 words were covered. |
Wingsfan  
Jun 02, 2006
| This was fun. I had to look at the hint though.  |
peanut-tiara   
Jun 02, 2006
| Good Teaser!
Learning Chinese (aka Imurray)
XIEXIE NI (for your new attitude)
Looking forward to seeing more of it. |
coachpisco 
Jun 02, 2006
| That was EXCELLENT! And to all those Crabby Appletons who think they have to nitpick everything, get a life and enjoy it, before it passes you by.  |
Quax
Jun 02, 2006
| Great teaser!
Twenty-five is a compound word, as defined: "a word composed of two or more words joined together by a hyphen." (Dictionary.com)
"One hundred" doesn't use a hyphen, so it doesn't fit this rule well.
Zero works, as do many other words without A in them. |
POPS  
Jun 02, 2006
| WOW Excellent Great and easy to remember to pass on to my friends.  |
booboobear
Jun 02, 2006
| Great teaser I'll put it on my favorites. |
vlerma   
Jun 02, 2006
| Well this ol' granny didn't look at the hint. I sat for twenty-five minutes trying to count one hundred words in the story without an A. Ha ha! This is one great teaser and goes into my favorites. Wishing everyoe a good day.  |
Misty   
Jun 02, 2006
| My math teacher says that when you say 'and' it means that there is a decimal there. So 12.6 would be 'twelve and six tenths.
BTW I really liked the teaser. I wouldn't have got it in a million years.  |
BadBunnee02   
Jun 02, 2006
| Great teaser. Tough one. Although I needed the hint to figure it out I still gave it top ratings. Good job !! |
jabdr   
Jun 02, 2006
| Another one to put a smile on my tired Friday night face. Thanks Mrix...I loved it.  |
syracuse945   
Jun 02, 2006
| haha, nysss...
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Vudluxi  
Jun 03, 2006
| Once the show's lawyers got in on this one he never saw the million dollars. However, they made two million in an afternoon.
Great teaser. |
RRAMMOHAN   
Jun 03, 2006
| A bit off, on a tangent: If one doesnt expect the answer to actually enumerate the 100 numbers without A, what about 'First Century of Numbers' for an answer?
This is a fantastic teaser. Learnt something new today.  |
Trishgal   
Jun 03, 2006
| Thought this was great. Should have hadit I 'm adding it to my faves so I can show friends  |
tdbrsun 
Jun 03, 2006
| I got a lot of different words, but not 100 in the allowed seconds, I did not read the hint., Great one . fooled me. One of my favorites . |
DufusX   
Jun 04, 2006
| easy, but really cool. i thought of the answer right away  |
blagh 
Jun 05, 2006
| Got the answer and rattled them off within 90 seconds. And I didn't worry about the "one hundred and one" issue, because it's not within the scope of this. I wouldn't hyphenate one hundred though, so my final word was poo. |
MrIxolite   
Jun 06, 2006
| (at the comment above) |
solarsistim321   
Aug 16, 2006
| Very Clever!  |
brainster   
Oct 04, 2006
| I loved this one! Excellent! Hope you collected the prize money! |
tintiniscool   
Feb 04, 2007
| Very fun!  |
solarsistim321   
Apr 06, 2007
| First number with an 'a' is one thousand. |
ViaTunisi 
Apr 24, 2007
| I got this right away, but I didn't think it was too easy. Great job making a teaser out of a cool fact like that.  |
batatis   
May 25, 2007
| easy. was about 2 write one the same but was a dupey owell
P.s does hate comments count as 'offensive'? cuz im tempted to clik it  |
lmurray   
Jun 02, 2007
| WOW, A LOT OF NIT-PICKING FOR A TEASER POINTING OUT A LESSER KNOWN FACT; NO NUMBERS WITH AN "A" UNTIL 1,000. (ALGEBRA ONE I THINK)
EVEN I DON'T NIT PICK. |
evilfuzzymonste
Jun 02, 2007
| Wow. I started by counting all the words in the teaser itself, disregarding the ones containing "a"s. Then I realized it wasn't long enough, glanced at the hint, and duh-thwapped myself in the head as I got it.
Great teaser. I'm definitely using it with friends.  |
coolguy5678   
Jun 02, 2007
| I read the hint and started thinking: one, two, three, four... maybe.
Then I clicked the answer. |
anion 
Jun 02, 2007
| Not sure how I got it but it just popped into my head. I'm gonna try it on my hubby when he wakes up.
Awesome teaser!!! Great job. |
feste 
Jun 02, 2007
| Great puzzler; however the rule didnt specify "different" words, so I could have used one word without an a and repeat it the required no of times to solve the puzzle. |
puttumup  
Jun 02, 2007
| very nice teaser for a saturday morning..  |
doehead   
Jun 02, 2007
| In 3rd grade my teacher taught me that you could count thru 999 without using an a . Another tough one. Ha Ha !!!  |
Stupidenator 
Jun 02, 2007
| Never noticed that. |
I_Write_Books 
Jun 02, 2007
| It took me a few seconds to remember that the first 100 Numbers (and more) didn't contain an "A," so I got it, but I would have lost the show!  |
phyllisa   
Jun 02, 2007
| Interesting!!! |
lez93    
Jun 02, 2007
| Very clever! I never would have thought of that! I thought there was an 'a' somewhere in there but i guess i was wrong  |
auntiesis   
Jun 02, 2007
| No one ever told me and I never thought of it on my own, that there are no letter a's in the first 999 #s. I am amazed to find this out for the first time at my age, [which doesn't have an A]. I'm impressed.  |
CASEYJONES   
Jun 02, 2007
| kind of a no brainer  |
i_lov_jordan07 
Jun 02, 2007
| cool quiz and pretty easy  |
2ndhandrose  
Jun 02, 2007
| I would never have gotten this without your clue. I started counting and realzied there are no A's up to100. Twenty-five etc are 1 word just hyphenated as explained well by the English Teacher above.
It could be confusing. People need to ask questions, as long as they are not rude.
THIS WAS FUN !!!
Fun, fun , fun, till your daddy takes you T-Bird away!
Vinyl Collector Rose |
XDeenaLeeX 
Jun 02, 2007
| That's cool |
oddrey  
Jun 02, 2007
| very cool. I couldnt get it without the hint though.
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nerdyiscool   
Jun 02, 2007
| The hint gave it away for me. Easy, but fun!  |
kauphi1976   
Jun 02, 2007
| pretty cool.. and easy.
Why do people argue so much about minor technicalities and spoil the humor in these nice puzzles - twentyfive / twenty-five / twenty five who cares ! Either you got it when you looked at the puzzle or you went - be, bee, beg ... through your dictionary to find the first 100
Chill
Genie-Ass |
shannmo    
Jun 02, 2007
| the word twenty-five no matter how you spell it means 25 not 20 or 5 so it is its own word. good teaser!! |
HarryPutter   
Jun 02, 2007
| very very clever!! |
mondayschild59   
Jun 02, 2007
| Nice one. I agree with Kauphi1976, why all the tado over the number 25. It still equals to 100 words in 90 seconds.
No worries  |
bookworm91   
Jun 02, 2007
| Great! I was stumped Congrats on making Teaser of the Day, too! |
KatV   
Jun 02, 2007
| good one!  |
Shikamaru   
Jun 02, 2007
| i just did that in 35 seconds.  |
cloughme   
Jun 02, 2007
| Excellent!  |
darkorion98   
Jun 02, 2007
| Glad I didn't spend too much time actually thinking of random words without the letter A. Very cute. |
wandering_goat 
Jun 02, 2007
| Nice one. I didn't know whether hyphenated numbers can be treated as seperate words or not, but apparantly they can. And yes, PLEASE don't say "one hundred AND one", just skip the "and" altogether. I remember they taught us that in grade school! (no offense to anyone who used it)
And what's with people telling people to stop arguing over whether hyphenated numbers are seperate words or not? Isn't that what the comment section is for? Furthermore, brain teasers should be held accountable when it comes to being accurate - otherwise the answer isn't really correct, and people could dismiss the right answer when they're trying to come up with it because of this. |
breathesunshine   
Jun 02, 2007
| Got this one right away. Fun and easy!  |
siskiu 
Jun 02, 2007
| whoa...it was kinda boring...but cool!!!  |
Yorkshire-Boy   
Jun 04, 2007
| liked this one, not sure why, but the answer just popped into my mind as soon as I read it...Pumbani, I think it is just Americans who say 101 - one hundred one, most other people who use English say 101 is One hundred and one...maybe Americans should learn how to speak 'English'....I've got Shosaloza running through my head now! |
cheeny13   
Jun 04, 2007
| Very interesting.. I had NO idea!! Great job though!!!  |
ManiKatti  
Jun 07, 2007
| Completely stumped me. Great job!  |
speedqueenkmw   
Jun 13, 2007
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spinnercat   
Oct 25, 2007
| hm....I just started listing words that I thought up that didn't have an "a"...I got about 20 in 90 seconds. This would be wonderful in the trick category, but I'm not sure it fits here.
And you can say the numbers from 1-100 in 90 seconds-35 seconds for me  |
(user deleted)
Apr 02, 2008
| Smart!!!  |
Gerrard10   
Oct 28, 2009
| I never thought of that! |
4wheels   
Mar 25, 2010
| Good Teaser  |
Starriddler   
Jun 02, 2010
| Great teaser! It stumped me for a few seconds, but I got it.
To all the people complaining about 'one hundred', you could just say "one, two...ninety-nine, hundred. |
doehead   
Jun 02, 2010
| I guess the editors are cleaning out their attic again.  |
beyonce123 
Jun 02, 2010
| for everyone that is saying that twenty-five is not in the dictionary that is because you can't put every number in the world in the dictionary gecause there is no end to all numbers. It amazes me how stupid people can be. |
patiencewithaP   
Jun 02, 2010
| Good teaser...I remember it from grade school. Fun!  |
jaycr   
Jun 02, 2013
| Nice one. I may win a drink or two next time I go to the bar.  |
Maggiethe8th   
Jun 02, 2013
| Glad to have seen the hint-tried to think first & only thought of 'pretzel' after a couple seconds It was much more fun learning what the answer is!  |
HABS2933   
Jun 02, 2013
| Did not get it until I read the hint, and then the answer was obvious.
Not sure who says "twenty AND one", "twenty AND two" in English, but as I know they say it that way in other languages (In German for example), it may be the ESL members of the site commenting on that. |
auntiesis   
Jun 02, 2013
| Not too hard with the hint. Without the hint I would have been lost.  |