Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Sunshine on a Brainy Day
by Sandy Wood - May 13, 2008 - 6:30 AM

TATTLETALE (which has ten letters, but only four unique letters… T, A, E, and L)

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Comments (7)
  1. Ha! Clever. I peeked, by the way.

  2. 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…

  3. Marge, I’m with you. I thought it was “then” as well, although why would the answer be in the riddle?

  4. diplomatic.

    Tact is a four letter word, but it wouldn’t be diplomatic to say so…

  5. I thought the answer was teen

  6. Posted this link in http://www.surfurls.com

  7. 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.

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