Saturday, 8 August 2009

Intellectual Teaser


Look at the following seven words carefully ...

banana
dresser

grammar

potato

revive

uneven

assess


... and cudgel your brains to see if you can determine what it is that they all have in common.

Other than having at least doubles of one or more letters.

MMM!

The thinking bit!

How are you going?

Okay - what they also all have in common is that, if you take the first letter, put it at the end and reverse the word, you end up with the same word.

Something silly (I know) but it helped pass the time with my first coffee of the day!

8 comments:

  1. It doesn't work for "asses," does it? If you move the "a" to the end and then turn the word around, you get "asess" -- a word, true, but not the same one.

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  2. I hate to quibble, but the last word does not work. If that was "assess" and not "asses" you'd have hit a home run.

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  3. hey alan

    pseudo-palindromes perhaps?

    chat soon i hope

    nick

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  4. Thats it, Nick!
    No more coffee for you!

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  5. hey greg

    LOL - reckon tea would be safe? a glass of milk? water?

    CYA

    nick

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  6. Sarah Palindromes perhaps?

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  7. hey alan

    or that certain friend of Lyn Drone (after all 'm' and 'n' are both nasal phonemes!)

    CYA

    nick

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