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Bit of Brush Anagram
Each sentence below contains a word that can be anagrammed to answer or describe the sentence.
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
1. Bit of brush
2. Opposite of unite
3. Writings of a steno
4. They affix without paste
5. Having less reason for fears
6. Animal that may need a shoer
Excerpted from an old Reader's Digest
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
1. Bit of brush
2. Opposite of unite
3. Writings of a steno
4. They affix without paste
5. Having less reason for fears
6. Animal that may need a shoer
Excerpted from an old Reader's Digest
Answer
1. Shrub2. Untie
3. Notes
4. Tapes
5. Safer
6. Horse
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I'm the first, Yay me!
Another great one, had to exercise my brain a bit.
Another great one, had to exercise my brain a bit.
Nice one fish! Luvvvvvvvvved it!!!!!!!!
very good, and a good source!
This is good stuff
that was hard i got like 3 right
Fish thanks for sharing. Fun teaser.
This was fun then and now.
I got them all. Yay It helped knowing that last time it was all the last words. Keep'em coming fish. I love'em
This one was fun but it was a bit too easy . I did enjoy it though!
I got em all, yay!!!!! This time it was easier for me, don't know why, last one like this I only got a couple. Thanks!
Pretty simple, coming as it is so soon after a similar one a few days ago. If the anagram words were to appear at a different place than the end of the sentences, it would have been more fun - i guess to make such clues is not easy.
Enjoyable
good one, got `em all right. more of these please
This was a good one. Not too hard, not too easy. Made you think.
This is really hard! I can't believe this! I just wonder who can slove this problem! He/she will be the universe's geniuse. Wow! so cool. Must be wearing glasses.haha
Better if mixed. Using the last word in each instance made it ridiculously easy.
I liked this one a lot! Got them all for a change
Not "ridiculously easy," but definitely doable ... and FUN!
Yeah Fishmed and RD. Loved them. But just as I get the ability of doables I am sure someone will change the methodology. I enjoyed these. Thanks for the fun.
i loved it ! easy for me .
i love to see the comments from the regulars on what's easy and what's not . everything is different for everybody . i'm sure tomorrow you'll have something that someone will say is so easy but it will make my brain explode !!!
i love to see the comments from the regulars on what's easy and what's not . everything is different for everybody . i'm sure tomorrow you'll have something that someone will say is so easy but it will make my brain explode !!!
Good one, got all but one. Keep them coming.
i love these ones they make you think but they are doable and not ridiculously hard, thanks!!
Very clever, loved it. Would be even better if they were a bit harder, and didn't always use the last word in the sentence.
LOL yea I HATE these ones cuz i feel like a ditz afterwards oh well got 3 at least good job was really well made and fun
i got most of them, but it would be better if they wernt all the last words in the sentence !!
nice job
goody good! a bit easy though, but i like them... scramble it next time so it'll be more fun! not always the last words!
More please?!?!
More please?!?!
that was awesome the only one i didnt get was, shoer??huh??
well ta ta
well ta ta
*sigh* I'll be honest. After getting this in my inbox, I took 1 look at it and just clicked on the answer. *sigh*
this is a fun teaser, I only got three but had alot of fun. great job
THIS MUST HAVE BEEN AN "OLD" READERS DIGEST, BACK WHEN MOST PEOPLE WERE UNEDUCATED.
Easy! Most were the last word.
It was pie.
Pretty fun pie, but pie nonetheless.
Pretty fun pie, but pie nonetheless.
Too easy.... always the last word!!!
yawn
...we likey...... got em all ...2ez
brain still asleep now....need hard
puzzles....must have
challenge...now drive to work
nodding off....
seriously, gimme something to dwell on...
brain still asleep now....need hard
puzzles....must have
challenge...now drive to work
nodding off....
seriously, gimme something to dwell on...
I have to agree with my comment of a year ago. Not too hard, not too easy. Enjoyable.
I thought this was fun!
I liked it, was easy qnd fun
Hiccup
As I said last year - I liked this one - would love to see some new ones like it
Ummmm.... okay isn't this a little fishy? (errrrmmm no pun intended fishmed! ) This was the same teaser of the day as EXACTLY a year ago. There are 12,392 teasers on this site...
and not only did we have one very similar to this a few days ago, but the same thing happened last year! I'm really starting to get worried!
But anyways, this is some pretty sweet FUNPIE! Especially if I put the above concerns about the Braingle TOTD repeats out of mind, which I did when I was rating it.
and not only did we have one very similar to this a few days ago, but the same thing happened last year! I'm really starting to get worried!
But anyways, this is some pretty sweet FUNPIE! Especially if I put the above concerns about the Braingle TOTD repeats out of mind, which I did when I was rating it.
Great one!!!
Fun, Fish, glad to see this one again. This time I got all of them. Yay!!! I must finally be getting smarter. Ha Ha. It's funny, but I didn't recognize this teaser at all from last time. So maybe a little senility is also creeping in.
This was easy for me and fun! I had "tones" at first but then thought of "notes".
Easy, but a fun way to start the morning! Good one Fish!
Too EZ, mix it up a bit, harder words, not always the last one, etc.
I had 'farse' instead of 'safer'!
Good. I saw this in RD and liked it.
I don't mind an easy teaser, but this one was just too easy.
Super easy!!!!
boring... -.-
every puzzle in this style has the mixed-up word last...
pretty fun, though
pretty fun, though
I liked it thx fishmed got em all...
I liked it thx fishmed got em all...
A nice middle of the road one. Thanx.
Hmm...that was fun.
Too easy! but fun
That was fun. I got all of them except "untied". Love the teasers Fish, keep them coming.
Nice to have a teaser that I could think a bit about, but didn't make me want to put my computer through a window! Thanks!
Very good.
Got all but 4 and 5 easily, but stumbled over those two. On the other hand, it was 3 a.m., I couldn't sleep because my back was killing me, and it was too early for strong coffee, which might have been as good as a hint.
What a shame that we are subject to old worn out teasers.
I love anagrams!
Can't beat Readers Digest for coming up with fun stuff. Glad to see it.
First off, glad to see the teaser attributed right up front, instead of people going 'didn't I see that in....?'
I got all of them immediately but still enjoyed it immensely! Thank you, Fishmed!
I got all of them immediately but still enjoyed it immensely! Thank you, Fishmed!
I love these! Great job!
I like these teasers, but I don't understand why it always has to be the last word in the sentence. That just makes it kind of boring.
These Reader's Digest ones are so much fun. Nice find, Fish!
Reading the comments from years past (MANY years past) I see several people (over the course of those years) have commented on exactly what I was going to say. We had a teaser just like this a few days ago.
How is it the teaser of the day is chosen then? If you are repeating the same teasers in the same order year after year, perhaps it is time to purge the database and start fresh with teasers that are at best 2-3 years old.
How is it the teaser of the day is chosen then? If you are repeating the same teasers in the same order year after year, perhaps it is time to purge the database and start fresh with teasers that are at best 2-3 years old.
A bit on the easy side. C'mon Habs this is one of the newer ones from the editors. It is only 7 years old.
I understand some repeating of teasers (new people joining) but within a few days???? If not this one, then one so similar I thought it was the same is ridiculous. At least wait a bit longer. Better still, give us a new one. And instead of saying, well, the new people don't know it, think about some of us long time users. Don't you know we get tired of this?
Love the comments - the compliments and the criticisms! Have a great day!
Got 'em all except untie haha
Thought it was lots of fun and I got all but one right. I should have gotten that one too. Oh well it was fun and I enjoyed it and isn't that what it's all about.
That one was easier than the one a few days ago, because I was more used to it. I agree though, there should be different t. o. t. d. year by year.
I am glad you guys liked this. I do have another one just like it, so that may have been the one before. As to how they are chosen, I understand that Jake selects them randomly from the most popular at the time.
Thank you all (here and "in advance") for your apologies to the BunnyBunch concerning the dearth (look it up) of interest and comments to our Brain Teasers.
As we have pointed out before (and which have resulted in MUCH negative karma being registered against us) ...
Braingle is dying a slow death from lack of user interest.
The last five NEW teasers (not just here in the TOTDs, and not just BunnyBunch submitted) have received exactly ....
ZERO ... ZIP ... NADA ... ZILCH ...
Comments.
And I am sure THIS comment will, again, ruffle some feathers.
So be it. The truth will not thus be altered.
The BunnyBunch (BadBunnee, LittleBrownElf, BadBunny02, LittleGreenMan).
(all still laughing)
As we have pointed out before (and which have resulted in MUCH negative karma being registered against us) ...
Braingle is dying a slow death from lack of user interest.
The last five NEW teasers (not just here in the TOTDs, and not just BunnyBunch submitted) have received exactly ....
ZERO ... ZIP ... NADA ... ZILCH ...
Comments.
And I am sure THIS comment will, again, ruffle some feathers.
So be it. The truth will not thus be altered.
The BunnyBunch (BadBunnee, LittleBrownElf, BadBunny02, LittleGreenMan).
(all still laughing)
The plural of tape is "tape," though.
Sorry, TBTabby, according to every source I have consulted, the pural indefinite of "tape" is "tapes". This teaser migt have been more challenging if the anagram to be found wasn't always the last word in the sentence.
I'm shocked at the low difficulty rating! Very humbling. lol
Good teaser!
Good teaser!
Glad you liked it and I understand that it does make it easy that the answer is in the last word, but I also realize that some easy ones are needed here.
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