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Kara and I are working on a special Lunchtime Quiz for tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, solve the following riddle and then check the answer to see if you win today’s Brain Game:
I’m a four-letter word
Though my letters are ten
I could tell you my name
But I’d be myself, then.What am I?
Click here for the answer.
Ha! Clever. I peeked, by the way.
posted by adrienne on 5-13-2008 at 10:16 am
Or it could be “then”…a four-letter word that contains “ten”…”I could tell you my name/But I’d be myself”, myself being the word “then”…
Just a thought…
posted by marge on 5-13-2008 at 11:35 am
Marge, I’m with you. I thought it was “then” as well, although why would the answer be in the riddle?
posted by Amy on 5-13-2008 at 12:15 pm
diplomatic.
Tact is a four letter word, but it wouldn’t be diplomatic to say so…
posted by roger3 on 5-13-2008 at 1:59 pm
I thought the answer was teen
posted by dirk on 5-13-2008 at 2:39 pm
Posted this link in http://www.surfurls.com
posted by babu on 5-13-2008 at 9:31 pm
Clever, but not accurate. The culprit identified in the answer gossips about or informs on others, not on himself or herself. Self-revelation has nothing to do with that rat.
posted by antonio on 5-13-2008 at 9:41 pm