Braingle: 'Shuffle #2' Brain Teaser

Shuffle #2

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

Puzzle ID:	#36693
Fun:	(3.05)
Difficulty:	(2.12)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	jazzmusician46
Corrected By:	merrimackxc2010

In this teaser, you are to start with the letter 'U', and then each time add a letter and shuffle it to make a new word. You need to continue this process until you reach the word 'SUPPORT'.

Not including 'U', you must do this in six (6) turns.

Good luck.

U
_ _
_ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
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S U P P O R T

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Comments

wyoguy May 21, 2007	Good one Jazz. Kinda cheated and worked it backwards though.
HarryPutter May 21, 2007	nice one jazz fooled me
jazzmusician46 May 22, 2007	Thanks guys
tick May 23, 2007	got stumped right out of the gate, lol! Enjoyed!
solarsistim321 Jun 02, 2007	Very good! Your ideas nevercease to amaze me...keep em' coming!
ADrunkenMan Jul 02, 2007	Hmmm, i got different answers. U up sup soup pours sprout S U P P O R T
chris132 Jul 02, 2007	Igot different answers,as well! U UP SUP OPUS POURS STUPOR SUPPORT
cloughme Jul 02, 2007	I got the same answer as adrunkenman. Good job!
egor Jul 02, 2007	different words us pus spur spurt sprout support
ikramazeem Jul 02, 2007	Hi, I am Ikram from Pakistan. I got it all wrong since I sipposed that U was not to be used. Good teaser though. ikramazeem@hotmail.com
cooltigerr1 Jul 02, 2007	i got the same as a drunken man too this was fun
lonewolf1960 Jul 02, 2007	yeah I got differant words too but that might be because I was following the instructions and they clearly say to add a letter and SHUFFLE??? That is not what was done in the answer so I am soooo confused...think I'll go back to Trivia....
leftclick Jul 02, 2007	I got a different set of words too: U, UP, PUT, PUTS, POUTS, SPROUT, SUPPORT. Lonewolf, it is possible to shuffle something back to how it was to begin with
feste Jul 02, 2007	I'm trying to figure what "Not including 'U'" means in the instructions.
gaylewolf Jul 02, 2007	Great teaser. Very clever, and I'm also impressed with those of you who got it and used different words I'd like more of these!
mosca Jul 02, 2007	I got sprout too instead of stupor. Lots of different right answers!
4princesses Jul 02, 2007	I got the same answers as leftclick. I liked it, but there were definitely a lot of other answers possible.
bradon182001 Jul 02, 2007	Funny how different words fit the teaser. I like this teaser.More please.
HScott13 Jul 02, 2007	Nice teaser, many answers. Mine was: up/us; pus; puts; spout; sprout; support.
rbasch Jul 02, 2007	Fun teaser... I came up with: UP PUT PUTS or POUT SPOUT or POUTS SPROUT or STUPOR SUPPORT Lots of different answers make this not too difficult, but a good wakeup excercise for the brain.
eclectric Jul 02, 2007	I had: us/up pus soup spout sprout
kasiecom2 Jul 02, 2007	up put puts spout sprout support
smchawk Jul 02, 2007	UP SUP SPUR SPURT STUPOR / SPROUT
Fredonia2k Jul 02, 2007	"Not including 'U'" means that 'U' doesn't count as one of the turns.
solotravlr Jul 02, 2007	i liked it.....didnt get it...but i liked it....
coolpainter Jul 02, 2007	U US SUP PUTS SPURT STUPOR SUPPORT
avonma Jul 02, 2007	I enjoyed it. I came up with different words, but made it to "support." Thanks.
hoosiergirl Jul 02, 2007	This was fun. I found several different words you could use also. But none of them filled the puzzle slots.
2ndhandrose Jul 02, 2007	I tried following the instructions. Came up with up sup to start & gave up. It seemed too easy & too many different combos possible. Sorry, it was confusing. THanks for submitting Tho
speedqueenkmw Jul 02, 2007	fun
auntiesis Jul 02, 2007	I also got other words us / up sup opus spout sprout support I had a lot of fun with this one, and noticed that a lot of people got different answers too. It's all good. Give us more. And thank you.
LetsGoMetsJets Jul 02, 2007	NICE ONE - ENJOYED IT. I HAD ONE MORE COMBO: U UP SUP SOUP SPOUT STUPOR S U P P O R T
tonjawithaj Jul 02, 2007	Good one! Very enjoyable!
evilfuzzymonste Jul 02, 2007	This was enjoyable. I like that there are multiple answers possible. I got almost exactly the one listed originally, except for some reason I imagined "SPOUT" as "STOUP" and hoped it was a word. That's what I get for not writing it down.
evilfuzzymonste Jul 02, 2007	Come to think of it, I also got "PUTS" instead of "POUT" and then added the O.
Brock Jul 02, 2007	I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
scallio Jul 02, 2007	UP PUT PUTS SPOUT SPROUT SUPPORT Piece of cake!
wandering_goat Jul 02, 2007	Fun. I put "sprout" for the second last word.
sylc1971 Jul 02, 2007	There are so many combos...I used: U US SUR SPUR SPURT SPROUT SUPPORT
Fhempen Jul 02, 2007	wow how do you figure that kind of thing out????? i got the first 3, then i went braindead. good job on the teaser, tho.
mondayschild59 Jul 02, 2007	Thanks for the post. Just goes to show, there can be more than one answer to the same question. Monday~
j9mattfield Jul 02, 2007	fun - many different possibilities. I like that.
breathesunshine Jul 02, 2007	Interesting and fun!
veer_84 Jul 02, 2010	I got Something different dude's here it is ... U UP PUT UPTO TROUP SUPPORT
gghali Jul 02, 2010	Yet another combination: U UP PUS / SUP SPUR POURS SPROUT SUPPORT
bear01 Jul 02, 2010	very nice i like this one.. i got the same as the answer.. was fun
doehead Jul 02, 2010	So many ways to do this. 6th grade quality at best.
sunnybonghits Jul 02, 2010	Very easy, but fun. A nice way to go into the holiday weekend! Happy 4th everyone
patiencewithaP Jul 02, 2010	Good teaser but I got a different answer too...thanks for posting!
juju1946 Jul 02, 2010	UP SUP SOUP SPOUT SPROUT SUPPORT
auntiesis Jul 02, 2010	This one was fun all over again. Thanks for the repeat, I enjoy them as much as the new ones.
davidrools Jul 02, 2010	seems like there are a lot of possible solutions. mine was UP PUT PUTS SPURT STUPOR SUPPORT
Sartre Jul 02, 2010	U UP SUP SOUP SPOUT SPROUT SUPPORT Good teaser. Just a bit confusing with the directions.
dani4w45t Jul 14, 2010	UP SUP PUTS POUTS TROUPS SUPPORT