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The Palindrome
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A palindrome is a word that reads the same when spelled backwards (eg rotavator).
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?
FOOTSTOOL
How could the following word be considered a palindrome?
FOOTSTOOL
Answer
Footstool is a palindrome when written in Morse code. It looks like:..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..
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WHOA! That's flippin' awesome!
A hint would have made it better. No one would have guessed that. At least I didn't...
Good one. Although, since I don't know morse code I could not, and did not, get the answer. Stumped me on this one and I'll venture to add that I will not be the only one you stump!
i dunno morse code either
if i did tho, i would have totally gotten that right!!
good teaser!!
if i did tho, i would have totally gotten that right!!
good teaser!!
Nice 1.
Too easy for me lol.
I just read a book about the morse code. Don't ask why but i did lol. Well good thinking tho.
Did you get this of of a site??????
if you didnt good thinking.
Too easy for me lol.
I just read a book about the morse code. Don't ask why but i did lol. Well good thinking tho.
Did you get this of of a site??????
if you didnt good thinking.
wow that was quite the stumper!
great teaser but honestly... does anyone here know Morse Code
We were supposed to know that how?
I agree w/ everyone else, I didnt get it but if i new mores code then i would get it
Haha good one but I defenitly don't know morse code so there's no way I could've gotten it.
That's quite the language curiosity you've unearthed .. strangely clever... just sat down and dashed that out I'll bet..
Oh my giddy, giddy gosh. That was sooooo hard, but yet, sooooo cool. I rate you, Mark.
For all of those who said something like "How were we supposed to know that?" Well, the teaser was designed to make you think...............................
good point mark but stil...
A tip for the future... don't get too technical when writing brain teaser Question Mark!
Good one anyway, even though i didn't get the answer right
Good one anyway, even though i didn't get the answer right
Well done! Good to see someone else using morse code in a teaser. Very creative. I know the code, but didn't see that one coming.
never would've guessed it
Woah! that seems impossible for anyone to know!
NICE ONE!!
my answer was "you cant", especially as this was in the trick category
Great teaser, but its not really a trick. More like trivia, as Morse code is unknown by many, as most trivia is. Since it was in the trick category, I literally thoguht the answer was lootstoof, but that doesn't make a word, so nevermind.
I'm actually sure I submitted this in trivia. I obviously put it in trick by mistake .
A hint would have been nice.
a hint might havce been nice, but since there is no hint, it just makes it all the more fun and hard! nice trick!
i thought it would be if u swaped the F in foot and L in stool
lol good thinking
lol good thinking
..-. --- --- - ... - --- --- .-..????
I thought u meant if you took the f and the L away but it obviosly wasnt the answer... very good teaser though, even if i knew morse code wouldve never come to mind. 2shay
too hard 4 me.
Whats the answer for this tease...my computer wont let me c the answer for this tease.
It was funny, but I think brainteasers are supposed to have you stumped until you read the answer, not have you stumped even after you read it.
How much research did you do for this?
How much research did you do for this?
fun! i autually got it right... eventhough i pulled the answer out of the air, i still got it right!
really morse code? how dumb. Glad i looked at answer soon, cause i said no way Jose, ur answer was no help either.
i never would have gotten it but it was good
If you are going to use Morse Code as your answer then you should at LEAST give a hint to that in your Title or in the puzzle...otherwise you are might as well say it's in Braille...
What??????
i was tryin 2 think of a nother name 4 footstool and that would b a palindrome but i was wrong....
THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! well I guess it would if I knew morse code, BUT IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!!!!!
come on now! do you really expect people to get this??????
Maybe this should be a language teaser... or something else... because a trick teaser is, by braingle defenition:
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Though this has a trick in it, its not easy, so it should be in another category. I thought this was interesting. Nice teaser.
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
Though this has a trick in it, its not easy, so it should be in another category. I thought this was interesting. Nice teaser.
The only thing I could come up with is to flip it an turn the end letters upside down. I know they L still wouldn't be an F and vice versa, but like I said, it was the only thing I could come up with
GEEZ! Please excuse typos lol. I'm running on one hour of sleep. But I'm still managing to get some of these!
Ack! I don't know morse code! But it is very clever.
I just happened to take Morse Code in middle school. HA yeah right. morse code never even craossed my mind. great one
That is AWESOME!!! How on earth would someone realize that????
That is soooooo awesome!!! Are there anymore words like that?!?
Ya got ME!!! Good one and maybe it will help me think outside the dots!
I do know MC but went with a new word same letters and just couldn't get an answer. I loved it. Great job.
well done one of the few new and orignal trick teasers ive read in a while
I said, you can't, and I still say you can't. The morse code nanswer doesn't really work, because the word is not spelled backwords.
nice teaser
WOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!! That's hard! Great one though!
Nice idea for a teaser
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I don't know morse code
didnt exactly no morse code if u didnt no there is something called a TELEPHONE!!!! lol but good teaser very well made
wow
whoops. that was suposed 2 be a pyramid.
hannah-loottool-anna
hannah-loottool-anna
This is the hardest I ever heard and seen on this site.
I was reading ur wiki and this really is the hardest teaser on the site that i have seen so far
P.S. i added u as a friend
P.S. i added u as a friend
Very good...but I do think it could do with a hint. Something like "Don't let it drive you dotty!"
I'm sure this teaser had a great time being former-hardest teaser on this site . Thanx for all of your comments.
A hint would've been good, but it was definitely clever!
I'm glad I didnt spend too long trying to figure it out, because it never would have happened. ever.
Fooled me. All I thought of was... Nothing.
hey man umm.. i dont think any 1 knows morse code..
Great teaser. Never would of guessed morse code :]
But maybe you should've had a hint, something like "the answer may not be in English" or something.
Still good though.
But maybe you should've had a hint, something like "the answer may not be in English" or something.
Still good though.
hey! no fair! i dont know morse code!!
good one still
good one still
No wonder it's rated the hardest out of all of them. No one could have possibly guessed that!
Wow.
I Loved It! Excellent thinking!!!
Are there any more like this...I would like to know!
Are there any more like this...I would like to know!
wow. all i can say.
i looked up "hardest" on quicksearch and this was it. congrats!
what is MORSECODE!!
omfg leaffan4life im sorry but that is really really really really really sad. u are an insult to braingle
woah how the hell did you figure that out ha
Wow, i never would have figured that out. Morse code, not my thing but good teaser!
Whoa... that's a really good teaser!
Morse code never even crossed my mind.
That's probably because I don't know how to read it...
Morse code never even crossed my mind.
That's probably because I don't know how to read it...
A nice teaser, informative, logical, and it did not assert that "footstool" itself was a palindrome, rather that there was a method by which it could be considered a palindrome. Well done.
superb, fun, and hard teaser!
Wow. Were u just eating dinner one day when the thought, "Oh my goodness, footstool is a palindrome in Morse Code!"? Was this the result of some twisted revelation? Well, ill never understand it but it was a great teaser.
this was to make u think, not anthing to make a huge fuss about!!!!! mark is right, it is supposed to make u think, so all of u that said, how r we supposed to know that, a.go make a hard quiz and c that it is harder to make the quiz than to solve it and b. go pick some easier quizzes to solve rather than to critizize the hard ones because news flash! they r supposed to be hard!
cool... I was reading a book that has the morse code a while ago and i tried to learn it. But I didn't got his one.. Didn't think of Morse code. (btw i'm new here and i was shy to post a comment but gotta post this one 'cuz the teaser is cool)
Didn't get that one......
It a cool teaser, but it sure could have used a hint.
W.O.W!! That's amazing!
I GOT IT!
I've been coming back to this one on and off for a few days, trying different approaches. Doing one of the cryptography teasers gave me the idea to use Morse Code.
Cool teaser!
I've been coming back to this one on and off for a few days, trying different approaches. Doing one of the cryptography teasers gave me the idea to use Morse Code.
Cool teaser!
Good One! Extremly impossible!
i would've never guessed that in a million years
it was good, but how come my spell check says lootstoof is a word?
never looked at palindromic morse codes....ever...
anyway....still cool....
anyway....still cool....
My answer: it would be considered a palindrome by someone who had the wrong information on what a palindrome was.
I already knew this one, but still, very cool!
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