Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Word Puzzle: Stripping the Word

What English word is nine letters long, and can remain an English word at each step as you remove one letter at a time, right down to a single letter. List the letter you remove each time and the words that result at each step.



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Solution: see comment no.3

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

STRIPPING, TRIPPING, RIPPING, PIPING,PIING, PING, GIN, IN, I. IS IT?

sand said...

Hey Bob, good thinking, but what's PIING? Nearly there!

sand said...

SOLUTION:
STARTLING
STARTING
STARING
STRING
STING
SING
SIN
IN
I