Braingle: 'The Spy Gift' Brain Teaser

The Spy Gift

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Puzzle ID:	#28565
Fun:	(3.1)
Difficulty:	(1.68)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	Angelli

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?

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Comments

Brainy_1 Feb 10, 2006	Good one! I got the first part, but couldn't figure out the second part Great teaser!!
doghouse270 Feb 10, 2006	i agree, i got the 1st part but the 2nd was hard
luckythirteen Feb 10, 2006	i got this one!!! good teaser though
Angelli Feb 10, 2006
bisqueet814 Feb 11, 2006	Awesome!
Joyyce Feb 11, 2006	Great.
brainster Feb 11, 2006	Nice one!
Therulerofthem Feb 12, 2006	I solved it pretty easily, but it was great fun.
SPUTNIK2 Feb 19, 2006	Very nicely done thanks
ilikejake Feb 25, 2006	very, very, very, very, very, very CLEVER! how long did it take you to think of that? whew! WOW AWESOME!
ganda8 May 11, 2006	hi i am the girl you sent a message good teaser
GebbieRose Jun 05, 2006	Very nicely done, Angelli!
coolpainter Sep 09, 2007	Fun & easy....Good one !
Chellie1911 Sep 09, 2007	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!
auntiesis Sep 09, 2007	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.
mosca Sep 09, 2007	Very good teaser! Nicely done! I didn't getthe second part of it though.
doehead Sep 09, 2007	WELL DONE
martinb216 Sep 09, 2007	didnt get 2nd part - excellent teaser
cuteandditzy Sep 09, 2007	Very cute and creative. Well done!!
bradon182001 Sep 09, 2007	Good teaser. Easy but good.
rush2 Sep 09, 2007	good one
Harmony_Girl Sep 09, 2007	Fantastic teaser! I hope to see more from you in the future!
Jadeylove Sep 09, 2007	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
craniac Sep 09, 2007	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.
mondayschild59 Sep 09, 2007	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~
gaylewolf Sep 09, 2007	It wasn't that easy for me But I thought it was extremely clever! Thanks for a good one!
sarah3218 Sep 09, 2007	that's really fun but it's kinda hard since i'm new
thedean Sep 09, 2007	I thought you had forgotten the END and then i looked there and there were the rest of the letters
masquerademe235 Sep 09, 2007	love it love it!! please do lots more!!
Montie317 Sep 09, 2007	I got "thanks fort" which is our traditional message of birthday gratitude.
Rerepete Sep 09, 2007	I thought Mom's name was Fortuna (nick = Fort)
luckylefty Sep 09, 2007	Mommy Spy! Ha Ha
crystal2040379 Sep 09, 2007	Good Teaser!!
tuckpaw Sep 09, 2007	very clever took me a while to get the second half
lmurray Sep 09, 2007	JUST PLAIN EASY!
scallio Sep 10, 2007	Fun!
Yorkshire-Boy Sep 10, 2007	liked it...it just seemed to leap out at me, my brain must have moved itself into 'puzzle solving' mode this morning.
oddrey Sep 10, 2007	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.
flyfisher Sep 09, 2010	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.
sunnybonghits Sep 09, 2010	I thought he got tea as a gift and was saying thanks for tea
daelin Sep 09, 2010	Nice! The end letters upwards were much less obvious
craniac Sep 09, 2010	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.
wm0912 Sep 09, 2010	Very much enjoyed this teaser.
BeanSC Sep 09, 2010	Good job!
chabberella Sep 09, 2010	WOW that was amazing . I can't beleive how awesome that was
patiencewithaP Sep 09, 2010	Good job! I got the "thanks for t" but not the rest Been a long day
acornalice Sep 23, 2010	Great! I loved it!
acornalice Sep 23, 2010	Great! I loved it!