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Read the sentence below and determine what the four uppercase words have in common.
As you put down your bowl of STEW and take your SEAT, you let out a SHOUT and leap back up; you sat on a THORN!
As you put down your bowl of STEW and take your SEAT, you let out a SHOUT and leap back up; you sat on a THORN!
Hint
Read the directions again.Answer
They are anagrams of the four directions: WEST, EAST, SOUTH, and NORTH.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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ahhh i see
I thought it was a nice teaser; good job!
Settle down kazuo!
What was with the hint? Huh?
What was with the hint? Huh?
DIRECTIONS!!!!!!!!!
yeah, i actually read the directions again
there are more than 4 capitalized words, every time you say I (i), you capitalize it
yeah, i actually read the directions again
there are more than 4 capitalized words, every time you say I (i), you capitalize it
Ha ha. I got it.
Pretty easy - cracked up when I read the hint....
I get a slap in the face . That was an awesomely amazing dramastic teaser. Great Job.
Almost gave up...and then I got it!!!
I said, "nothing, nothing, 'o', and 'n'".
it was ok
aweosme teaser, but I didn't even think about directions. I was trying to work with the letters.
they also all have the letter L
Hahaha, nice one! I tried reading the words backwords first, and I read nroht, and somehow got north from that.
Haha, but fun to solve!
Haha, but fun to solve!
Almost too easy... Good job though.
haha thats a good one! good job
i got 'WEST' and then my brain went south and clicked on the hint and then it was a bit too obvious.
Jeanie-Ass
Jeanie-Ass
got it easily... it was a nice teaser!!!
Must have been easy, I got it right away. I enjoyed it, Good job.
Interesting teaser thanks!
I thought it was hard. The answer was awesome though. I doubt I would have ever come up with anagrams of the directions.
Great teaser.
Great teaser.
very nice one....
Tremendous work! I enjoyed the teaser! Keep them coming!
Pretty easy - just as well as I've a really busy day today!
i had to look at the hint but after that i got it no problem
Agreed--too easy. Found myself having solved it before finishing reading it.
tkooter
tkooter
I didn't try very hard to get it. I gave up early; but I like it - it was a good one. I THINK I could have got it if I stayed with it. Thanks!
How was that hint helpful?
Zaya, the hint was helpful because west, east, south, and north are all directions. The hint is to look at the directions again.
Good one
Good one
I thought it was because they all had a t somewhere in them
Great teaser. I got it.
Yay I got it straight away, just what I like, an easy peasy for a monday!! Woohoo.....
...they all have T's in them.
ok that was pretty much ridiculous... i'm sorry some of you ppl are nice and actually liked it... LOL
Veru interesting and very clever
Thank you very much for this awesome teaser!!!
Thank you very much for this awesome teaser!!!
lol i was thinking that the thing they had in common was that they were uppercase!!! haha it says that right in the directions so i took the hint the wrong way!!! i feel dumb!
message me please!!!
message me please!!!
duh, i didn't get it but had fun trying
This was really cute
I laughed at myself when I saw the answer, didn't get the hint though
I laughed at myself when I saw the answer, didn't get the hint though
very clever
Good one, I got it right away
umm how about they are all nouns? isn't htat like the easiest answer?
I was thinking like OhEmGee, and figured it was something obvious.
Oh well I had fun trying!
Oh well I had fun trying!
also they all have the letter T so that couldtechnically be the answer also.
oops i read the directions again... i said that since it said what do the capitalized words have in common that it was that they were all capitalized...
I was gonna say, if the answer was 'they're all capitalized' that would be really stupid.
That was a really good teaser. I loved it. It was fun but challenging at the same time!
cool
This was a fun teaser. I was in a hurry this morning and didn't take the time to figure it out. But after knowing the answer and reading the hint I thought the hint was really clever! Good job!
Fun teaser! After looking it over, I picked an alternate answer... all answers have the letter T in them.
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That was awesome!!!! I don't usually get these, and I was on the verge of being stumped, but then I looked again... and thought some more .... "Maybe they're anagrams of something," I thought. Yessssss~!!!
I LOVED THE HINT!!! That's what really cracked me up! DIRECTIONS!! HAH!!!!
Very good teaser!
I LOVED THE HINT!!! That's what really cracked me up! DIRECTIONS!! HAH!!!!
Very good teaser!
Thanks for the hint. That made it very easy, but without it I was going in the wrong darned direction.
if anyone has read the Redwall series, this was ridiculously easy... this sort of puzzle was in one of them .... however, if i hadn't read those books, i probably wouldn't have has a clue....good job
Good one. Took me awhile to get the wrong answer. Oh well,there's always tomorrow.
Excellent! Loved it!
Good one!
Figured it out without the hint. Good teaser. Enjoyed it.
id that they all had t's in them,
It was not my thing, but glad it made some happy! Thanks for posting.
EThey are also all upper case.. simple..like me LOl
The only thing I could come up with was they all had a T in them, but knew it would not be that easy. I read the hint and did what I thought it wanted me to -reread the directions, then thought "yeah, okay how does that help?" Had to chuckle when I realised that directions did not mean instructions as I had thought but was virtually giving the answer! Good one Marc.
I found my way through this one.
That was a good one!!
Saw this before and still missed it.
The hint made it harder for me to solve.
I didn't get it correctly, but I LOVED it!
Thanks for a good one!
Thanks for a good one!
I started by looking for words within a word: wet, or eat, or horn - then I checked for anagrams - and voila!! I didn't look at the clue until after I had read some of the comments - the clue was great! Loved the teaser!
I got it by reading the words backward as well, now I have to back and read the hint, sounds like it was a hoot Thanks!
Got it instantly - Liked it a lot.
Did not have a clue. Good one.
Fun and Easy Teaser; I got it right away. I love anagrams and would like to see more like this.
Nice n ezy fun teaser, didn't need any hint, but laughed when I actually saw your hint( very clever)!
Thanks!
Thanks!
What a relief when I figured it out- I'd been ready to give up!
I thought the answer was that all four of the capitalized words were completely capitalized, lol
I got it, somehow going back as instructed worked. I actually don't know how.
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