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What do the following words have in common?
Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo
Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo
Hint
It is more than having letters repeated in each one...Answer
If you take the first letter and move it to the rear of the word, you get the same word when read backwards.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Very cool!
V. interesting! Took a few secs, but (fanfare) I got it!
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!
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!
Simple but clever. Good job!
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
Interesting and fun to workout.
lol didnt notice hint cause i got it from the daily teaser
Isn't potato spelled with an E?
good one! devilbunny you gotta go back to first grade!! hehe
i only got the repeated letters part. didnt get the other part.great job and a great teaser.
I too though just the way as penquinboy did. It was really hard for me. Good one.
fuuun!!!
How CLEVER is that!!! Great Job!!
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)
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)
very cool i ma surprised that i got it right
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.
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.
This was pretty cool !
heck yes, i love when i get these right!
You got me again, it thought this one would be simple but the answer I made was Bermuda
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
I loved it!
great teaser, I FINALLY GOT ONE! LoL,
lOvEd iT!
lOvEd iT!
That Is So Coooooool
Right over my head - great job. Took some work to come p with that many reversible words. More please?
COOL!
very unique way of looking at it.
very unique way of looking at it.
that was fun! and i got it right!! lol
LTSA Fun!
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.
Clever!! I don't think I'd ever have noticed that... nice one!
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.
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.
and 99%of people tried! lol
I am a hint junkie!!! This hint did not help me...oh well..great teaser!
HEN HAO! VERY GOOD
they all also have 2 pairs of the same letter
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!
Okay, I'm feeling better now!
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
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
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!
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!
this is another "Ohhh...I get it(now)" teaser
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.
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.
Thanks for all the great comments everyone! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
WOW!!!!! u know i never saw these before.....very very nice
Very nice!
CLEVER! going to the top! 3.3 the most popular fer now nice job!!!
wait, potatoe potato, lol
This is awesome! Great teaser!
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.
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(It didn't let me use words longer than 50 characters, so I had to break up that end bit.)
Read Smee's comment on the teaser link below, made in March earlier this year, 4 months earlier than this teaser was submitted.
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(It didn't let me use words longer than 50 characters, so I had to break up that end bit.)
Don't be so negative. This was a good teaser.
That was cool! Thanks!
I thought it was neat
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Cool!!
Or... you could just call it a palindrome.
This has been in many publications, but it's interesting if you've never seen it.
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.
That's the trouble with life nowadays; everything's been around before in one form or another.
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!
I thought it was repeated letters as some others did. I never noticed the hint. Good one, actually one of my faves.
Great teaser!
Aug 28, 2009
They also each have 6 letters.
way cool!
I would've answered that the letters after the first one are palindromes. But that works as well.
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.
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!
Babe, I'm with Gayle on this one. Your spelling teacher must flunked spelling.
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).
I think the original comment about the "e" was in reference to that (if you look at the date of it).
My guess was:
If you remove the first letter from each word, they are all palindromes.
If you remove the first letter from each word, they are all palindromes.
A simpler answer is that each word has two each of two letters. Terilynne88's answer is much more elegant.
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
Willi Greer at a belle gala too ?
(Referring to William Greer, JFK's driver)
thedavincigame.com
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".
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.
As an aside, I can't believe how often the Dan Quayle "spellinge lessone" keeps popping up in these things.
I just thought of the words being palindromes when the first letter was removed.
Like many others I was unable to access the hint, without seeing the answer.
Exclusions should always be included in the instructions!
Spoilt the whole teaser for me, I'm afraid!
Exclusions should always be included in the instructions!
Spoilt the whole teaser for me, I'm afraid!
The word being a palindrome with the first letter removed is the same thing. Every word that can be read backwards with the first letter moved to the end is a palindrome when the the first letter is removed, except that it may not be a word anymore. Fun teaser.
I'm with MarkW. I found a solutions and checked the answer. I wish the hint were included in the body of the teaser so I could have searched further.
Very easy, but still fun. That's rare, so good job!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got this one very quickly.
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