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She's an Extraordinary Girl
I was just flicking through some old newspaper clippings and came across the headline;
"Upcoming Artist Is Extraordinary!"
It brought back some memories and inspired me to write this teaser;
She was born in 1975 in Sheffield, England. At the age of two, she could read simple books and started to tackle the dictionary. In 1978 she won her first spelling bee and a gold fish at the local fair. In 1981 she decided to become an athlete and won the British Youth Games that very year. In 1998 she got bored of athletics (she had medals in almost all Olympic sports) and became an artist, her work selling at a minimum price of £1,000,000. Then in 2001 she tragically trapped her hand in a toaster and died from major burns.
What was my sister's name?
"Upcoming Artist Is Extraordinary!"
It brought back some memories and inspired me to write this teaser;
She was born in 1975 in Sheffield, England. At the age of two, she could read simple books and started to tackle the dictionary. In 1978 she won her first spelling bee and a gold fish at the local fair. In 1981 she decided to become an athlete and won the British Youth Games that very year. In 1998 she got bored of athletics (she had medals in almost all Olympic sports) and became an artist, her work selling at a minimum price of £1,000,000. Then in 2001 she tragically trapped her hand in a toaster and died from major burns.
What was my sister's name?
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I was thinking Imaginary!
I was thinking She.
What a er.lovely..name....
What a er.lovely..name....
I was thinking something like imaginary or fake or suttin! good teaser
It wasn't much of a teaser. Wasn't much of a trick either. But you did your homework.
What do you mean I did my homework?
You took to task the elements of a trick teaser, tho it may not be clear to some. Overall it was stil quite good. i liked it.
i was stumped, good teaser i give it 3 thumbs up WAIT I DONT HAVE 3 THUMBS!!!
I call it a groaner, which isn't all that bad for a trick teaser to be.
Like you got these nice dates to make it hard. You know. Like doing extra credit.
sory i accidentally clicked this is offensive for a few people
I knew this was a trick teaser, so I naturally figured this one out immediately.
nice one swithie but it was easy
*groan*
Sorry about your toaster loss.
Sorry about your toaster loss.
Wonderful
cute!!! Very enjoyable read.
I got it!! hahaha.
haha.. I really thought it was She**
I thought her name was Mye(first name) Sister(weird last name). Extraordinary was my second guess.
I thought it was a cute trick! Nice going!
my condolences! nice teaser.
Interesting...
2 EZ
lol good. love the name of the teaser though - in an ordinary world...
easyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
easyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
DUDE, YOU HAVE TO CAPITALIZE EXTRAORDINARY IN THE 1ST SENTENCE IF YOU WANT IT TO BE THAT, AND SO IT DOESN'T STICK OUT AND BE OBVIOUS, DO CAPS LOCK, AND WITH "EXTRAORDINARY" LOWERCASE, THE ANSWER IS "SHE"
THANKS FOR THE TRY
THANKS FOR THE TRY
Whoa! Slow it down fella, if I've made this rirdiculously easy teaser a little difficult for you in any way by trying to disguise the obvious answer, I apologise. Maybe if you didn't capitalise your whole comment I might find it a little less pointless.
+ She is at the start of a sentence so I think it deserves its own capital letter. When you write a story you generally refer to the persons name in the first sentence of a paragraph and then will usually refer to them as She or Her or whatever. You don;t normally use the name hundreds of times. It keeps the story fresh and interesting.
Good point Swithie! Very fun and tricky. I almost said her name was Sister... don't ask! Well, very nicely written! Luckily I did get the answer on the second time I read it. I personally don't see how her name could be she...? Does anyone else?
one question, how do u die from burns on ur hand???? it was a great teaser!!!!
I'm sorry for her but did you get the fortune?
Maybe she was allergic to toasters.
Thats what the doctors suspected, and no I didn't get the fortune. In her will it insisted that her urn would be the first to be launched out of our solar system, so all but twenty seven pence of it was spent on that fruitless project.
I like the easy ones..
Was it true?
Nice and easy.
Nice and easy.
Sorry but if it was her name it needed to be capitalized... :/
Sorry maybe I'm being completely blind here, but at what point does it mention your sister?
I thought it was she.
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