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Find the Fool
Find all ten words described below.
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The first word you'll need
is a tool used to snare.
Reverse and add one:
a dwelling filled with fresh air.
Append the letter H
to find a metric sort of part.
Now change N to E to get
a smile, at its heart.
Tack on an 'I N G'
to make a baby's cross to bear.
Remove the center two
and find a golfer's action there.
Add an S and drop the E's:
A painful bite you'll see.
Add one to the end: you will make
penny-pinching, miserly.
Put first 2 and last 2 out the door,
What's left is really cool.
Only keep the first half of that
And now you find the fool.
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The first word you'll need
is a tool used to snare.
Reverse and add one:
a dwelling filled with fresh air.
Append the letter H
to find a metric sort of part.
Now change N to E to get
a smile, at its heart.
Tack on an 'I N G'
to make a baby's cross to bear.
Remove the center two
and find a golfer's action there.
Add an S and drop the E's:
A painful bite you'll see.
Add one to the end: you will make
penny-pinching, miserly.
Put first 2 and last 2 out the door,
What's left is really cool.
Only keep the first half of that
And now you find the fool.
Hint
When it says "add one" or "remove the center two" it is always referring to letters.You will probably have to work forwards and backwards to get all the words.
Answer
NET (a tool used to snare)TENT (a dwelling filled with fresh air)
TENTH (a metric sort of part)
TEETH (a smile, at its heart)
TEETHING (what a baby suffers from -- its "cross to bear")
TEEING (a golfer's action)
STING (A painful bite)
STINGY (penny-pinching, miserly)
IN (really cool -- i.e. the "in" thing)
I (I am the fool, after all. Or does it refer to you? :D )
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Fun teaser As long as you get the first word, the rest flows pretty easily. Nicely done!
Clever!
That was very interesting. ^_^ Fun!
Enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Good teaser, had to look at first word in answer to get going. Also a sting isn't a bite, that clue is VERY misleading.
Ur the ,uh,fool,ZAG24
Loved it. Got tripped up on Stingy.
One of the best! I love word games - well done!
Very fun. Great teaser.
Nice one. My favorite in a long time. Thanks!!!
I didn't enjoy being called a fool, but up until then I'd enjoyed it a LOT! Zipped through it easily, as you can tell by my moniker.
Nice - loved this one! I kept trying to get it from the other words, because I couldn't get the first word at first, but I couldn't figure it out. Once you get that first word, though, everything is very easy.
I loved it!
WoW. You're a FOOL.
Really enjoyed this one. Fairly easy once you got going, but unlike a lot of word puzzles, if you don't figure out the first word you likely won't solve it.
Took a minute or two to do, but was quite solvable if you put in the time.
Though, not sure I like being called a fool (though from the moment I read through the puzzle, I sort of knew that last word would be either "I" or "me".
Took a minute or two to do, but was quite solvable if you put in the time.
Though, not sure I like being called a fool (though from the moment I read through the puzzle, I sort of knew that last word would be either "I" or "me".
Guessed tent for the first, but not all tents are filled with air considered "fresh." Fun though.
I scanned the clues and decided to start in the middle with teething. After that it went fairly quickly. Loved it.
Well, that was fun an d rather easy too. It just flowed along. It took some time to figure out this one for the author, so Thank you!!
That was a lot of fun! Once I figured out the first word it was just following the directions, but I still felt clever! Good teaser!!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser - thank you for posting.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it very quickly just like I did three years ago.
I'm with Auntiesis. I had to go down to "teething"/"teeing" to get a foothold. Did everyone who said this was just easy get Net as a tool for sharing right away? Remarkable.
Wonderful teaser, by the way. Go ahead and call me a fool. I can handle it.
Wonderful teaser, by the way. Go ahead and call me a fool. I can handle it.
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