WORD PUZZLE

[Popeye]

See if you can figure out what these words have in common.

1 Banana
2 Dresser
3 Grammar
4 Potato
5 Revive
6 Uneven
7 Assess

Have you already given up?
Give it another try . Look at each word carefully.



Answer: No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters. (Thought I had the answer, but I did not go far enough.)



Correct Answer:

To be posted later if nobody gets it

 

[Popeye]

And just so you know...

You can spell Badgpariuvae if you remove all the double letters. But that's not the correct answer. :lol:

 

[Nickk]

they're all one letter shy of being palindromes?

pull the first letter of each and they're palindromes.

 

[Popeye]

Nickk,

Close, very close.

 

[KMixson]

If you pull the first letter from each and move it to the rear the word is the same if read backwards?

 

[Popeye]

If you pull the first letter from each and move it to the rear the word is the same if read backwards?

Yup, that's it

 

[SMDave]

But that is a palindrome....

 

[Nickk]

If you pull the first letter from each and move it to the rear the word is the same if read backwards?

DOH!

That'll teach me to reply quick from work!


I'm no Jim Shortz

 

[Popeye]

But that is a palindrome....

Actually a palindrome is a word or words or phrases that read the same backwards or forwards without changing any letters.

 

[SMDave]

Oh! Missed the part where you have to move the first letter to the back. I thought you just had to drop it completely. #-o

 

[Captain Ahab]

Oh! Missed the part where you have to move the first letter to the back. I thought you just had to drop it completely. #-o

You get a D- then!

 

[Popeye]

You get a D- then!

Man, you're harsh

 

[Captain Ahab]

You get a D- then!

Man, you're harsh

Watch it - I grade on secret requirements, I will tell you if you are expelled.

For you double secret probation!

 

[Popeye]

You get a D- then!

Man, you're harsh

Watch it - I grade on secret requirements, I will tell you if you are expelled.

For you double secret probation!

I guess it's over for me then...

Wait a minute...

Over? Did I say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Heck no!

 

[Captain Ahab]

Flounderhead59's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right