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The Spy Gift
There once was a family of spies. One of them is celebrating his birthday, and the Mommy spy gave him gifts. The celebrant did not say anything; instead he gave this set of words:
toes
heat
ambition
nose
kiss
see
for
oneupmanship
route
tough
And because the family are spies, the Mom understood the message.
What was the message?
toes
heat
ambition
nose
kiss
see
for
oneupmanship
route
tough
And because the family are spies, the Mom understood the message.
What was the message?
Answer
THANKS FOR THE PRESENTSIf you read the first letters beginning from the first word downward, and then the last letters from the last word upwards, you will reveal the message.
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Good one! I got the first part, but couldn't figure out the second part Great teaser!!
i agree, i got the 1st part but the 2nd was hard
i got this one!!! good teaser though
Awesome!
Great.
Nice one!
I solved it pretty easily, but it was great fun.
Very nicely done
thanks
thanks
very, very, very, very, very, very CLEVER! how long did it take you to think of that? whew! WOW AWESOME!
hi i am the girl you sent a message good teaser
Very nicely done, Angelli!
Fun & easy....Good one !
FUN AND 1/2 EASY --- I GOT FIRST PART - AND THOUGHT IT STOPPED SUDINLY SO I CHEACKED THE OTHER LETTERS OF EAS WORD - AND I GOT IT WOO
WELL DONE!
WELL DONE!
The answer just popped into my head. It was an easy one to solve, but I bet it wasn't that easy to construct. Kudos ! More please.
Very good teaser! Nicely done!
I didn't getthe second part of it though.
I didn't getthe second part of it though.
WELL DONE
didnt get 2nd part - excellent teaser
Very cute and creative. Well done!!
Good teaser. Easy but good.
good one
Fantastic teaser! I hope to see more from you in the future!
I dont get it. The Answer is THANKS FOR THE PRESENTS, but all i see is THANKS FOR T. I didn't really get it. But good though
Jadeylove -- That's the hard 2nd part everyone is commenting about. The message continues in the last letters of each word going from bottom to top.
I got one right, break out the champagne. All by myself I figured this one out. So it must have been easy. Thanks for the wonderful teaser. I loved it.
Monday~
Monday~
It wasn't that easy for me But I thought it was extremely clever!
Thanks for a good one!
Thanks for a good one!
that's really fun but it's kinda hard since i'm new
I thought you had forgotten the END and then i looked there and there were the rest of the letters
love it love it!! please do lots more!!
I got "thanks fort" which is our traditional message of birthday gratitude.
I thought Mom's name was Fortuna (nick = Fort)
Mommy Spy! Ha Ha
Good Teaser!!
very clever took me a while to get the second half
JUST PLAIN EASY!
Fun!
liked it...it just seemed to leap out at me, my brain must have moved itself into 'puzzle solving' mode this morning.
Got it within ten seconds, which is not really normal for me. I think it could ahve been better. I think it would have been betterif the list of words anctually ment something. Keep them coming.
Like so many other got the first part, but whe i got to "The" I thought you had toi go to the "he" in heat and got lost from there. Great Teaser.
I thought he got tea as a gift and was saying thanks for tea
Nice! The end letters upwards were much less obvious
Glad to see I'm improving. The first time this teaser came around, I rated it between easy and hard. But this time, I'd have to rate it very easy, because it took me less than half a minute to solve it. (I'd long since forgotten the answer to the original, so had to solve it anew.) Practice may not make perfect, but it does help a lot.
Very much enjoyed this teaser.
Good job!
WOW that was amazing . I can't beleive how awesome that was
Good job! I got the "thanks for t" but not the rest Been a long day
Great! I loved it!
Great! I loved it!
Since we have had similar ones before, this one came easy to me. Fun though!
Seen to many of these type. So it was very easy.
I couldn't figure this one out in 2007, but since then I guess I've gotten MUCH smarter! Thanks for posting.
Fun one. I got it quickly.
I loved this puzzle. I remembered this one from a previous year, but I still liked it and thought it was very clever! Thanks for posting!
ladle
onion
video
edges
deli
tooth
onion
video
edges
deli
tooth
tricky
harlots
iota
sanitize
woo
also
spigot
harlots
iota
sanitize
woo
also
spigot
goods
odd
toon
inferno
tic
I've
needs
fine
improv
odd
toon
inferno
tic
I've
needs
fine
improv
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I got it very quickly. I also liked the secret coded answers provided by Brainglers for their answers - very clever.
Like many others, couldn't get past: "THANKS FOR TEA"?
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