How can you make four 9’s equal 100?
99 + 9/9 = 100
How can you make four 9’s equal 100?
99 + 9/9 = 100
A nine-letter word, common as air, When each letter’s cut, a new word to pare, Take a letter each round and continue to one. Name the word and the path and then you’ll be done.
Surprisingly, there are several nine-letter words that can have one letter removed in each round to make a new word all the way to one letter, which must be ‘a’ or ‘i’. Startling is the most common answer, but I’ve included the other words I’m aware of. I don’t include plural words, like cleansers, drownings, splatters, starvings, trappings and wrappings because it’s kind of cheating.
startling
Remove the l to make starting (or remove the t to make starling)
Remove the t to make staring
Remove the a to make string
Remove the r to make sting
Remove the t to make sing
Remove the g to make sin
Remove the s to make in
Remove the n to make I
splitting
Remove the l to make spitting
Remove the p to make sitting
Remove a t to make siting
Remove the first i to make sting
Remove the s to make ting
Remove the g to make tin
Remove the t to make in
Remove the n to make I
stringier
Remove the r to make stingier
Remove the i to make stinger
Remove the t to make singer
Remove the r to make singe
Remove the g to make sine
Remove the e to make sin
Remove the s to make in
Remove the n to make I
strapping
Remove the s to make trapping
Remove the t to make rapping
Remove the p to make raping
Remove the r to make aping
Remove the a to make ping
Remove the g to make pin
Remove the p to make in
Remove the n to make I
I met an old man on London bridge, As the sun set on the ridge, He tipped his hat and drew his name, And cheated at the guessing game. What was the man’s name?
Andrew. In the third line, “and drew his name”. It works better when you say it since the spelling is a bit off when written.
What is two+D?
F because After D is E then F.
How can you spell candy with only 2 letters?
C and Y
I am a word which means a vivid form of text, remove first my letter and I am a word which means some/many years ago/back, add g before me and I become a name of a precious stone from which jewelries are made. What word am I?
Bold
Bold-B=Old Ol+G=Gold!
Simple
If 2 girls have the same parents and were born at the same hour of the same day of the same month, but they are not twins. How can this be?
Because they were born in different years.
What country’s capital is growing the fastest?
Ireland’s capital. Every year it’s Dublin.
What’s huge when it should be small, lies to you constantly and scares you lots?
Your government.
What 3 candies can you find in any school?
Nerds, DumDums and Smarties.
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
Why don’t penguins live in England?
Because they’re scared of Wales!