Tree  
Feb 19, 2005
| whoah. Hard. |
badbunnee
Feb 19, 2005
| Good riddle !! Very creative.
I tried and tried but couldn't figure it out. NICE !!
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melilyn
Feb 19, 2005
| whoa, SO never saw that coming. very good. I'm impressed |
BeastyBeesa
Feb 20, 2005
| That was hard! Of course, it seems easy once you read the answer. Quite enjoyable!  |
aznboi1324  
Feb 21, 2005
| Ez but a good one |
Riddler
Feb 22, 2005
| Very clever. I'm not very good at math (haha) |
ZiL0226
Feb 24, 2005
| I luv it!! It's so clever!! I thot I could figure out all the riddles, but WHOA! didnt see that one comin! Nice job! |
ZiL0226
Feb 24, 2005
| I luv it!! It's so clever!! I thot I could figure out all the riddles, but WHOA! didnt see that one comin! Nice job! |
mathmaniac 
Mar 01, 2005
| CUTE!! |
freakydoughnut1
Mar 02, 2005
| i love these kinds of riddles!!!  |
whoelsebutme09
Mar 05, 2005
| That was really kool! |
iconofsin
Mar 06, 2005
| Congrats on having the funnest teaser. |
ABBAS1
Mar 12, 2005
| Let me see
three question marks difficulty
very good but lets see if you can get the real teaser to blow my mind  |
mefreakdancer1
Mar 16, 2005
| OOOOOOOOOhhhhh...didn't get it until i looked at the answer. goodone  |
Master_Yoda
Mar 18, 2005
| Great teaser. Never would have gotten it. |
Master_Yoda
Mar 18, 2005
| I would have gotten it if i knew what the first two big words meant. |
thetrumonk
Mar 20, 2005
| Good deal! |
Frogtvjr
Mar 20, 2005
| Very counter intuitive! I was looking entirely in the wrong direction.
Loved It. |
rugbys_girl
Mar 20, 2005
| The teaser was good except for the misuse of the word truncate. You used the word as if it meant to cut the end off of something. Truncate does mean to cut off or end abrubtly, but you did not specify which end of the word to truncate. Decapitate implies cutting off the front of the word, so directionality should be implied when you use "truncate". |
dbs241
Mar 20, 2005
| Love it! |
Riki
Mar 20, 2005
| Too cute!  |
mnkhoury81
Mar 20, 2005
| Never in a million years would I have gotten that! Good one!  |
brain_dead
Mar 20, 2005
| very confusing
wouldn't have figured that out in a million years |
froggygg
Mar 20, 2005
| Very good! Didn't even get close to answer but, after read it makes complete sense.  |
CHUCKLZ
Mar 20, 2005
| WOW Congrats on the best teaser!!! that was hard...nevr would I have ever seen that one coming. That was great..loved it |
Flakama
Mar 20, 2005
| It was difficult.
I didn't know what capitate and truncate meant, and I had to look them up.
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(user deleted)
Mar 20, 2005
| I luved it it made me think really hard!!!!!! |
Arlene
Mar 20, 2005
| Had to think about that one for awhile.It was agood one |
madgurl31
Mar 20, 2005
| Hey! Im sorry but I didn't get it! I like math teasers and rebus teasers!!! But it was clever! I guess im not that smart!!  |
Kal22
Mar 20, 2005
| Had to look up the word "truncate".Still couldn't figure it out. Good one. Really liked it. |
mesendk
Mar 20, 2005
| gosh that one was HARD! i would have never gotten that one even if you said it was a number! |
kimmy3771
Mar 20, 2005
| When the Sphynx gets ready to update his riddle I will send him your way. I totally missed the biblical reference. I look forward to the rest of your puzzles. |
Kinergy
Mar 20, 2005
| Yikes, that one seemed a little too hard. Second = Eve??? Quite a stretch there. |
timilee
Mar 20, 2005
| 7
isn't this a repeat of an other teaser i read here once B4???
but that did help me know the equation
good 1 |
tamjp
Mar 20, 2005
| Wow! You are my idol! Serious points for vocabulary, biblical references and math all in one very entertaining riddle! Wow! P.S. I think the ones that said it was easy are fibbing |
nicisan
Mar 21, 2005
| Superb teaser, very hard but very good! |
Jessa
Mar 21, 2005
| Very Hard!
I could have figured it out if I knew what the first two big words were. But still it was difficult I didn't get it until I looked at the answer!!  |
mschup
Mar 21, 2005
| Yeah it is kinda sad when people have to say a really hard one like this is "EZ" just to make themselves feel smart. Also when people go out of there way to find something wrong with it, Good job! |
Lucky_Thirteen
Mar 21, 2005
| Not bad. But I've heard that one before.
I just forgot that's all. |
MEJOHN
Mar 21, 2005
| Eve? The second person according to the bible. that was a bit of a reach. |
dutchymonster
Mar 21, 2005
| groan!  |
heterodox
Mar 21, 2005
| awesome. best i've seen so far. (and i got it... but maybe that's cuz i'm a math guy...) |
heterodox
Mar 21, 2005
| oh and... "truncate" does indeed imply cutting the tail end off... |
cornfused
Mar 21, 2005
| Very difficult. Unable to even guess. Thank you for this one. Stumped my son-in-law the great math wizard. |
tj_drmlngrl
Mar 22, 2005
| loved it. that was an awsome riddle. i love riddles but didn't even come close to it. keep it up. |
darthforman
May 22, 2005
| difficult.
I was thinking live a worm or something.
Gee, I don't know.
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gorillazgirl
Aug 04, 2005
| I GOTZ IT!!! YAY!! I HAVE NEVER GOTTON ONE THAT WAS MORE THAN 3 ?'s BEFORE!!! YEAH!! |
Katelin
Sep 21, 2005
| he-hee I got this one! But it was still awesome. |
teen_wiz
Feb 08, 2006
| WOW. That was really hard. GREAT JOB though! |
PineappleMama
Mar 07, 2006
| VERY COOL!! |
jessjspieks
Mar 21, 2006
| Okay, rubys girl, seriously get over it. This is a great teaser and you must need to pump yourself up by knocking others down. Anyway, great job, great vocab and reference usage. I LOVE IT. Right to my faves. |
king_leonard
Mar 21, 2006
| woh i went in the complete wrong direction. i duno y but i thawt it was a worm |
IvoM
Mar 21, 2006
| Got it within the minute. Strange: some teasers others find easy I find more difficult. Was fun though. |
coachpisco
Mar 21, 2006
| I thought EVE was the tough one, but I enjoyed it a lot. |
coachpisco
Mar 21, 2006
| I thought EVE was the tough one, but I enjoyed it a lot. |
lukeschett
Mar 21, 2006
| That was hard, but fun. I liked it. |
shawneeo
Mar 21, 2006
| I didn't get it, waaaaaaa! But I think it was GREAT! The "second" clue was definitely very hard, but hey, I think it was totally valid! It was just difficult, and that's the way EVERY TEASER should, well, should ASPIRE to be!
Thanks, good job! |
yesenia8rivera
Mar 21, 2006
| Cool |
Fasil
Mar 21, 2006
| That was pretty good; I enjoyed it very much. The second clue might be e little more clear if it read "Then truncate me and I become THE second". The teaser is good as it is though. |
vlerma
Mar 21, 2006
| Wow! Right into my favorites. This is the best I have seen. Of course I didn't even come close to the answeer after seven tries this eve. SUPER!!! GREAT!!! Loved it. Am looking forward to more from you. |
iteachkids
Mar 21, 2006
| SUUUUUPER, AquaOcean! I was searching for a word to slice and dice, but couldn't come up with it. To end up with the Roman Numeral "V" was the icing on the cake! More, more, we need MORE!!! |
Vigo95
Mar 21, 2006
| I LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!!!! |
cvISS
Mar 21, 2006
| I was with it up until the "second = eve" thing. That was a bit of a stretch. |
raconteur
Mar 21, 2006
| The answer could be the word "All"
With "A" gone (decapitated), we have ll which is "equal" rotated.
If we truncate i.e. cut off the bottom portions of "ll" we get something like '' which is the symbol for second (trigonometry).
Finally, if we cut back at the front and back, we are left with "l" which is the roman symbol for one, two less than the initial three letters we started with!
Well, its kinda roundabout, but what the heck - its funny |
cherokeerose
Mar 21, 2006
| wow this was very hard but you did a great job..i did not even get close to getting it |
tchershelly
Mar 21, 2006
| i thought this was a little miss leading. Decapitate means to cut the head off of something. Other than that it was very clever and I didn't get it until I scrolled down to see the answer. |
CharmedPop
Mar 21, 2006
| I thought it was a triangle...don't ask me why....good riddle! |
ekambaram
Mar 21, 2006
| nice |
aylakisses
Mar 21, 2006
| I thought of the word "all". When you take off the "A" you have ll, which turned sideways, looks like the equal sign. Then truncat..once again, I took off the "A" and it resembles the Roman numeral for two. And when you remove the first and last letters, you're left with one...two less than you started with... |
aylakisses
Mar 21, 2006
| I was there with you raconteur. |
iteachkids
Mar 21, 2006
| Raconteur and Aylakisses! You amaze me! How much time did you spend on that???!!! |
mi2mo2tx
Mar 21, 2006
| OUCH! That one was tough, but how CREATIVE! I loved it! Thanks, keep 'em coming! |
jaydeco
Mar 21, 2006
| Man, even on my best day I don't think I would get this one!
Very good teaser! |
2hip4you
Mar 21, 2006
| Wow, very nice I never would have gotten it.
when I saw what it was I thought
hmm
It just seemed easy after that. thanks for the challenge |
Winner4600
Mar 21, 2006
| 3.1 difficulty? I got it right away! But it was still a great teaser, thanks! |
lindquist_25
Mar 21, 2006
| Nice |
mrfatbat
Mar 21, 2006
| Trying to do these first thing in the morning at work may cause serious brain damage |
quickster94
Mar 21, 2006
| It was great. Keep um coming |
couger881
Mar 21, 2006
| WOW!!! SO COOL I HAD IT to send it to MY EMAIL |
lazy-boy
Mar 21, 2006
| VERY CLEVER |
hockeygirl
Mar 21, 2006
| wow i didnt even get that one!!! yes that was very good!!! |
wizkid
Mar 21, 2006
| Thatz so cute. I never would have gotton that. Good job. |
bballer21
Mar 21, 2006
| OMG, that is 1 of the best teasers on this site!!!! Nice job!!! |
Jerzeegal
Mar 22, 2006
| Good one! I was going in a totally different direction . I think Ruby's girl or whatever her name is needs to lighten up & not be so rude & arrogant! |
lyris
Mar 22, 2006
| Didn't see that coming! Of couse... I didn't know what all the big long words ment xD |
RRAMMOHAN
Mar 22, 2006
| A tough one. Didnt get it. Looked simple, once you get to know the answer! Please give us more of these. They make you think hard. |
Psychic_Master
Jul 29, 2006
| Haha, good one! |
twixy
Sep 23, 2006
| nice one |
choptlivva
Dec 16, 2006
| Excellent!!! |
j9mattfield
Mar 21, 2007
| Wow. That was a bit too much for me tonight. Thanks for the brain burn though! |
cloughme
Mar 21, 2007
| Whew!! Tough one!! Excellent! |
kitty728
Mar 21, 2007
| i understand decapitate ok --take off the letter s-- and you get "even."
truncate - that means take off the "n" and you get "eve". 2nd person in the bible..
but take off "front and back" and you are left with2 less than started:"5" (therefore the "what am I : is the number "7"
BUT BUT - correct me if Im wrong.... you need to take off 2 from THE BACK because the roman numberal 7 is: VII. the way it reads is take off "front and Back" which would make the roman numeral 7 to read IVI which is WRONG .. anyone agree??? or maybe I'm Wrong... could be,,,,its hgappened before lol, lol... tks , later gators
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bradon182001
Mar 21, 2007
| I still don't get it. |
shawneeo
Mar 21, 2007
| Kitty, you don't need to think about the "ROman Numeral" for SEVEN, it say's cut me front and back, meaning cut EVE front and back, meaning cut off the "e" from the front and back of "eve". Somehow you jumped into thinking about the roman Numerals but that's only what you end up with at the end- "V".
OK, I read this last year, and commented, and... I STILL didn't get it a year later!!! aaarrrggghhhh!!!! And at the time, I remember thinking "I'll NEVER forget this one, now that I know the answer, because it's so good!" And, I'm gonna show ya'll just how petty I am now: I don't believe anybody who says they got it!!! LOLOL!!! Sorry, I guess that shows how dumb I am, but I just can't believe that never having heard it before, someone could get this, especially not "in a minute", "EZ", etc.
The references were so disparate, that's what made it so hard. I think this, whether the Braingle author of it actually was the original creator or not, is like... the ULTIMATE TEASER! At least one of the ultimate teasers. And... I don't think that I would EVER have gotten it, because you just don't have anything to start with. Im going to send it to my 87 year old Grandmother now; if she can't get it, NOBODY can! LOL! |
AbsurdHero
Mar 21, 2007
| Vague. |
doehead
Mar 21, 2007
| Very interesting |
ViaTunisi
Mar 21, 2007
| Thanks for a great teaser. I'm sad I didn't spend more time on it before looking at the answer. Oh well. |
puttumup
Mar 21, 2007
| didnt get it ..could of had a better explanation i think? |
Pizzazz2u
Mar 21, 2007
| A very interestingly fun teaser! Even though I have seen this one before, it still comes on to me as being an easy one to figure out. Keep up the tremendously fun work! |
speedqueenkmw
Mar 21, 2007
| too tough for me |
Trishgal
Mar 21, 2007
| As For me , I too came up with ALL but your version is way better and makes much more sense. And although All jumps out at me , took No Time to solve it really wasnot the educational answer yours is
THX |
jacstop
Mar 21, 2007
| why we are duplicating teasers now? Is the teaser market that bad? Don't we have some more creative people here? I believe if we decreased the requirements to send a teaser we could have more teasers available and not have to repeat old teasers |
auntiesis
Mar 21, 2007
| From the very first sentence I had a good dea it would be easy, because the word even just jumped into my mind. It only took me a few seconds after that to figure out the answer. I found this one very easy, but it was still very good. |
saradove
Mar 21, 2007
| Very clever
Although I now feel very stupid
Thank you for this awesome teaser!!! |
SPUTNIK2
Mar 21, 2007
| clever, witty and tricky! I got it after I saw the answer...good oneP |
LeafFan4life
Mar 21, 2007
| good work dont keep it up you are making all of us look bad very clever nice work |
I_Write_Books
Mar 21, 2007
| Wow! Nice job! I don't think anyone could have truly gotten that one.
Thanks for a fun and challenging teaser! |
leroy_h
Mar 21, 2007
| TOO HARD FOR ME. BUT I LIKED IT VERY, VERY MUCH!!!!!!!AS FOR ME , I DONT THINK EVE WAS A BIT OF A REACH. MEJOHN THINKS SO ,BUT NOT ME. |
dasione1
Mar 21, 2007
| Wow! great teaser, i didnt get it though but still fun. |
masquerademe235
Mar 21, 2007
| i like it |
Pablo
Mar 21, 2007
| Got the Seven, but what is the in the answer all about? |
Pablo
Mar 21, 2007
| O.K. I typed in : and then a D and my comment ended up with a smiley face. |
zips5000
Mar 21, 2007
| i was guessing actually numbers. somehow i came up with 11, but that obviously isnt right. |
Luna_
Mar 21, 2007
| I also came up with "All", odd. Anyways, excellent teaser! . |
luckyduck
Mar 21, 2007
|
I loved this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
OhEmGee
Mar 21, 2007
| good one!
it was hard but toatally fun!
message me! |
kitty728
Mar 21, 2007
| shawneeo ..... thanks - now i get it - it seems the command is on the last clue ie/ youre left with "eve" then cut front and back (of eve) and yes you are left with a "V" which is roman numberal for 5....
very smart shawneo..... my bad??!! kitty |
Qrystal
Mar 21, 2007
| That was a pretty good teaser; tough because I was on the right track and didn't think I was because I didn't get the "second" reference. Oh well. |
animaru2413
Mar 21, 2007
| yeah, i had no idea what truncate meant so i was clueless. |
breathesunshine
Mar 21, 2007
| Wow! I had to call the fire department when my brain cells began to spontaneously combust trying to solve this one! |
shawneeo
Mar 23, 2007
| My grandma didn't get it!!! That is a BIG DEAL!!! Believe you ME! LOL!
NOW, I want everyone who said they got it, and never saw it before, especially the ones who said it was "easy", to meet me in a central location. We're going to have a little LIE DETECTOR TEST PARTY!!! lol!
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jamy400
Mar 25, 2007
| Very clever. |
Zag24
Jan 13, 2009
| Clever! I was disappointed with myself not to have gotten it. I would have liked a hint. How about the following?
5 letters, 4 letters, 3 letters, 1 letter |
doehead
Mar 21, 2010
| That was a great teaser the first or second time around, but know it's getting very boring.   |
wm0912
Mar 21, 2010
| I really enjoed this one. I couldn't get the 'v' ending though. Thanks. |
sunnybonghits
Mar 21, 2010
| Overall, this was a good one. My only complaint is the third sentence makes it seem like cutting the front and back off the ORIGINAL word makes it two less. The third sentence should really start: "Then cut me..." |
TallTimber
Mar 21, 2010
| Pretty good teaser. Clever, in fact. |
Johnny
Mar 25, 2010
| wow that was a really good teaser! |
perrygf
Apr 18, 2010
| Fantastic! Make more! |
Babe
Mar 21, 2013
| I too had to look up truncate and it still did not help! God that it baffled more than me! |
Babe
Mar 21, 2013
| I meant good. Fingers are tired and made a mistake Sorry! |
HABS2933
Mar 21, 2013
| Was unable to solve it but once I saw the answer it made perfect sense. I stated out with the second word (the decapitated one) being "same" and tried to go from there -which of course I couldn't. Had I thought of "even" it would have all fallen into place nicely. |
cutebug
Mar 21, 2013
| Clueless |
Maggiethe8th
Mar 21, 2013
| verrry much beyond me this morning- who am I kidding? Any morning! but I did enjoy the answer & intellectual wake up with my coffee! |
