renae   
Jul 25, 2006
| Very cool!  |
boodler 
Jul 25, 2006
| V. interesting! Took a few secs, but (fanfare) I got it! |
somnambulist 
Jul 26, 2006
| cool! at first I was thinking, okay, something to do with consonants v. vowels...but then I looked at voodoo backward and ding! the light came on. Great teaser! |
doghouse270
Jul 26, 2006
| cool teaser! didn't get it at first but then i saw grammar and i was like "wait if you put the first letter in the back you get the same thing" and it worked with all the other ones. really awesome teaser! keep em' coming!  |
GebbieRose
Aug 27, 2006
| Simple but clever. Good job! |
penguinboy 
Aug 27, 2006
| i was thinking that each of the words had at least two of one letter like voodoo has at least 2 o's and gramma had at least 2 a's and m's |
OldChinaHand
Aug 27, 2006
| Interesting and fun to workout. |
penguinboy
Aug 27, 2006
| lol didnt notice hint cause i got it from the daily teaser |
DevilBunny
Aug 27, 2006
| Isn't potato spelled with an E?  |
temisho
Aug 27, 2006
| good one! devilbunny you gotta go back to first grade!! hehe |
utnative
Aug 27, 2006
|   i only got the repeated letters part. didnt get the other part.great job and a great teaser.   |
Shriya
Aug 27, 2006
| I too though just the way as penquinboy did. It was really hard for me. Good one. |
azbee123
Aug 27, 2006
| fuuun!!! |
starnz
Aug 27, 2006
| How CLEVER is that!!! Great Job!! |
Badger
Aug 27, 2006
| Darn! Never saw it coming! Had lots of ideas about symetry, etc. but none of them right. Excellent work! Thanks!
PS: They still show the clip on TV where Dan Quail "corrects" the kid at the school spelling bee because she forgot the "e" in potato.  (0) |
markita1
Aug 27, 2006
| very cool i ma surprised that i got it right |
Pizzazz2u
Aug 27, 2006
| One can always get themselves to enjoy a different challenge. And this has a double to it, very good for a Braingle teaser. A slight bit of a tickle, but I enjoyed it, immensely. |
jabdr
Aug 27, 2006
| I knew it immediately. Perhaps it was entered in a different teaser category in July and I saw it while browsing. Enjoyed it then, and enjoy it now.  |
lazy-boy
Aug 27, 2006
| This was pretty cool ! |
doka13
Aug 27, 2006
| heck yes, i love when i get these right! |
Bruce_42
Aug 27, 2006
| You got me again, it thought this one would be simple but the answer I made was Bermuda  |
Trishgal
Aug 27, 2006
| I saw all the repeated letters ,but did not grasp the link Anyway it is good to learn new things, so I appreciate the teaser.thx |
brainy40
Aug 27, 2006
| I loved it! |
doghouse270
Aug 27, 2006
| great teaser, I FINALLY GOT ONE! LoL,
lOvEd iT! |
flowerz2010
Aug 27, 2006
| That Is So Coooooool |
vlerma
Aug 27, 2006
| Right over my head - great job. Took some work to come p with that many reversible words. More please? |
IMCUL4E
Aug 27, 2006
| COOL!
very unique way of looking at it. |
ragdol13
Aug 27, 2006
| that was fun! and i got it right!! lol |
iteachkids
Aug 27, 2006
| LTSA Fun! |
bradon182001
Aug 27, 2006
| This is one of the best teasers I've seen. I didn't get it by the way, was trying to work something out with vowels. Great job. This definitely will go into my favorites.  |
mi2mo2tx
Aug 27, 2006
| Clever!! I don't think I'd ever have noticed that... nice one! |
blondebookworm
Aug 27, 2006
| that was SO much fun! I totally loved your teaser. it was pretty easy to get, ( I knew the answer by the second word) but still really clever. good job. |
POPS
Aug 27, 2006
| I thought it was two sets of the same letters in each word untill I saw Voodoo then I gave up Close but no cigar Loved it, good job Goes in my watch list. |
Mellew
Aug 27, 2006
| and 99%of people tried! lol |
mllee1974
Aug 27, 2006
| I am a hint junkie!!! This hint did not help me...oh well..great teaser! |
lmurray 
Aug 27, 2006
| HEN HAO! VERY GOOD |
josty
Aug 27, 2006
| they all also have 2 pairs of the same letter |
heyman
Aug 27, 2006
| These are the most frustrating. Because I sit there trying to figure out the issue KNOWING it is something like "take the first letter and put at the end and when you read backwards, it is the same word!" 
Okay, I'm feeling better now! |
MurfQ
Aug 28, 2006
| Very nice. Only thing I would have liked to see though was that the hint really should have been part of the instructions so people like me wouldn't look at it and immediately dismiss it as just being multiple pairs of double letters and too obvious for anything.
It doesn't help of course when you get them via the daily email where the hints aren't available till you click the link for the answer, but that's a site annoyance and has nothing to do with your cool teaser |
RRAMMOHAN
Aug 29, 2006
| A great teaser! Didnt get it! 
Could only get so far as to note that each word had two letters in doubles. Definitely one of my favourites! Thanks for the selection! |
ava199345
Aug 29, 2006
| this is another "Ohhh...I get it(now)" teaser |
Qrystal
Aug 30, 2006
| hm. I like my answer better:
take off the first letter, and the rest is a palindrome. I guess it's all the same in the end... since "reading backwards" is pretty much how palindrome is defined. |
Terilynne88
Aug 30, 2006
| Thanks for all the great comments everyone! I'm glad you enjoyed it! |
luvdoritos706
Aug 31, 2006
| WOW!!!!! u know i never saw these before.....very very nice |
FeaerFactorY666
Sep 02, 2006
| Very nice! |
solarsistim321
Sep 05, 2006
| CLEVER! going to the top! 3.3 the most popular fer now nice job!!! |
solarsistim321
Sep 05, 2006
| wait, potatoe potato, lol |
teen_wiz
Oct 08, 2006
| This is awesome! Great teaser! |
grungy49
Oct 28, 2006
| Man... good teaser, though this idea is not original.
Read Smee's comment on the teaser link below, made in March earlier this year, 4 months earlier than this teaser was submitted.
Copy and paste this into your address bar.
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/
teaser.php?id=22537
(It didn't let me use words longer than 50 characters, so I had to break up that end bit.) |
lukeschett
Apr 17, 2007
| Don't be so negative. This was a good teaser. |
lkp68
Jun 07, 2007
| That was cool! Thanks! |
amymarie1123
Jul 16, 2008
| I thought it was neat
PLEASE DONT DELETE THIS COMMENT: Wtb: if you are in my game then PM me and you get prize first! |
Vivica
Aug 28, 2009
| Cool!! |
sageowl3106
Aug 28, 2009
| Or... you could just call it a palindrome. |
doehead
Aug 28, 2009
| This has been in many publications, but it's interesting if you've never seen it. |
crazy10man
Aug 28, 2009
| I've never seen it, and I thought it was very clever. Loved it!
That's the trouble with life nowadays; everything's been around before in one form or another. |
tova_l
Aug 28, 2009
| Great teaserr! I got it right away! There's been something like this going around in email too, so that helped a bit. Going in my favorites right away! |
auntiesis
Aug 28, 2009
| I thought it was repeated letters as some others did. I never noticed the hint. Good one, actually one of my faves. |
patiencewithaP
Aug 28, 2009
| Great teaser! |
(user deleted)
Aug 28, 2009
| They also each have 6 letters. |
craniac
Aug 28, 2009
| way cool! |
racoonieboy
Aug 13, 2010
| I would've answered that the letters after the first one are palindromes. But that works as well. |
Babe
Aug 29, 2012
| Devilbunny is correct. When I went to school it was potatoe and tomatoe, but somewhere along the line it was changed and argued about for some time, but originally it was with an E. nice teaser all the same. |
gaylewolf
Aug 29, 2012
| Babe, I'm curious about where you went to school. The only time I've seen potato and tomato spelled with an "e" is when the words are made plural. Good puzzle! |
cutebug
Aug 29, 2012
| Babe, I'm with Gayle on this one. Your spelling teacher must flunked spelling. |
HABS2933
Aug 29, 2012
| I've never seen it with an "e" either, but then maybe it was changed before I got to school. OR perhaps babe and Quayle had the same spelling teacher.
I think the original comment about the "e" was in reference to that (if you look at the date of it). |
dsjt
Aug 29, 2012
| My guess was:
If you remove the first letter from each word, they are all palindromes. |
asupmdr
Aug 29, 2012
| A simpler answer is that each word has two each of two letters. Terilynne88's answer is much more elegant. |
thedavincigame
Aug 29, 2012
| I loved this teaser so much I decided to write a sentence using the same format:
Willi Greer at a belle gala too ?
(Referring to William Greer, JFK's driver)
thedavincigame.com |
here2
Aug 29, 2012
| Might have been interesting to add a word that didn't have two sets of repeat letters. Perhaps "To" or "go" (or any other two letter word). Or even a four letter one like "Data" or "Fete" or "Mete". |
eamon
Aug 29, 2012
| I didn't bother with the hint so I just got words with at least two pairs of repeated letters.
As an aside, I can't believe how often the Dan Quayle "spellinge lessone" keeps popping up in these things. |
