Braingle: 'A Sparkling Puzzle' Brain Teaser

A Sparkling Puzzle

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

Puzzle ID:	#39358
Fun:	(3.13)
Difficulty:	(2.26)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	aresII

Begin with the word "SPARKLING" and take away one letter so as to leave a new word. Then take away another letter from the new word and leave a different word. Continue this, letter by letter, getting a new word every time until you finally leave one word containing only one letter. You must not disturb the order of the remaining letters after a removal.

Answer

The puzzle is solved in this way:

1) SPARKLING.
2) SPARKING.
3) SPARING.
4) SPRING.
5) SPRIG.
6) PRIG.
7) PIG.
8) PI.
9) I.
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Comments

zeepuzzlemaster Nov 25, 2007	YAY! First comment I've seen lots of puzzles like this...
Mon05 Nov 26, 2007	great teaser
mosca Nov 26, 2007	Very good teaser! I just went down the wrong path!
moody12345 Nov 28, 2007	That was great! I didnt get the exact answer but i still got down to 1 letter doing it a different way!
al111 Nov 30, 2007	good teaser
MzPink85 Dec 03, 2007	good teaser, although i went in the completely wrong direction!
SweetPotato Dec 28, 2007	Good one, thanks! I only got down to 6 letters ... lost patience with myself.
imaginarycanary Dec 28, 2007	I got different answers, too, using a couple of obsolete words and one odd choice. But, hey, all the words were in the dictionary!
iffy_97 Dec 28, 2007	hey .... 4give moi 'coz i didnt hav enough patience 2 complete it but its a good teaser if there ever was 1!
tommysmo Dec 28, 2007	good job!
kwelchans Dec 28, 2007	moody12345, I'd be interested in seeing how you did it.
serenity815 Dec 28, 2007	Great teaser! Thanks
bradon182001 Dec 28, 2007	I got started in another direction and never could get it down to one letter. I wanted the final letter to be A, but just couldn't do it. Great mind expanding teaser, Aresll.
2ndhandrose Dec 28, 2007	It is a great teaser. Stupid me also took the wrong path. Got as far as Parking and paring. You stumped me! GOOD ONE SEND IN MORE!!!!
manatee_luvr Dec 28, 2007	Cool! I got sparking and then parking and then i got lost
carolyns Dec 28, 2007	I got it using different words: sparkling, sparling, parling, paling pling, ping, pin, in, I. They are all in the dictionary!
kwelchans Dec 28, 2007	Are sparling, parling, and pling real words?
redneckgal155 Dec 28, 2007	Good Teaser. I took a differnet pathb but it all worked out. :]
nerdyiscool Dec 28, 2007	See, I said PARKING, and then I was lost. I loved this teaser! Some of the Daily Teasers can be annoying because they'll be cryptographies or math, that only the very brainy can solve. This one was hard, but I enjoyed trying! Keep it up!
pve1423 Dec 28, 2007	That was an excellent teaser... really made you think.
lindquist_25 Dec 28, 2007	Cute.
dogg6pound9 Dec 28, 2007	excellent teaser ares... i got lost at "paring" also... and i was so sure of myself... i like these alot, keep 'em coming
Miss-AmericanD Dec 28, 2007	good teaser but it was a tad bit easy! GOOD JOB!
seventy7 Dec 28, 2007	Fun teaser. nice to have an easy one now & then!
FatHead Dec 28, 2007	I might have found it if I had known "prig". Oh well.
auntiesis Dec 28, 2007	Very nice teaser, a tad easy, but nice nevertheless. More, please..
jabdr Dec 28, 2007	I went the same direction as 2ndhandrose and nerdy..but loved the answer and the correct process. Thanks
wordmama Dec 28, 2007	Ditto rose & nerd.
TheSmartest Dec 29, 2007	Ah Man!!! I did it wrong... lol I went SPARKLING SPARKING PARKING PARING Then I was like "Is Aring a word?" lol
mondayschild59 Dec 29, 2007	I got lost a time or two, but I finally found my way back and got it. Great Teaser. Thanks for the post. Monday~
twogross Dec 29, 2007	Startling starling staring string sting sing sin in i I did the parking-arking, and was lost
zaya Jan 04, 2008	Awesome teaser! Challenging, but no goofy words you've never heard of. I started by building up, and got stuck on: AKIN KIN IN I Then I tried again and got it.
BrainMaster21 Dec 13, 2009	sweet
orion Dec 28, 2010	NICE TEASER
Leadsinger Dec 28, 2010	Another alternative route! sparkling sparling - Common smelt of Europe. parling - Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb parle. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: parling, parled, parles, parler, parlers, parlingly and parledly paring - Trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges. parin - Genitive singular form of pari. parn - Poly(A)-specific ribonuclease PARN is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PARN gene. par - An amount or level considered to be average pa - father/dad a
patiencewithaP Dec 28, 2010	I went the route of leadsinger but went "parin," "pain," "pan," "pa," "a." Fun teaser...I love these!! Thanks!
precious1026 Dec 28, 2010	I thought this Teaser was Excellent, fun, easy but required a decent level of Thought. Keep these Coming. I bet everyone liked this one?
precious1026 Dec 28, 2010	I thought this Teaser was Excellent, fun, easy but required a decent level of Thought. Keep these Coming. I bet everyone liked this one?