Comments on: Brain Game: Negative Capital

By: Hodge

Hodge — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:29:43 +0000

I listed all the letters and started by spelling out a few capitals and striking out letters. After just a few, “W” stood out as one that I could think of a lot of states for . . .

By: Matt Allcorn

Matt Allcorn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:51:53 +0000

My first thought was odd letters such as X and Q, but I couldn’t find eleven states with either letter so my next thought was W. I must say I was suprised when I found that no capitals contain W, relatively common letter.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:20:40 +0000

I almost said K (I had 7 states in my list when I stopped and switched over to W). I too employed a list of the alphabet and started exercising that fifth grade useless trivia, and answering that age old question of will I ever use this information again?

Thanks, Sandy! I like it when you mix in these types of questions with the mathematic ones!

By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:34:57 +0000

It took me a while, I had to go through almost the entire alphabet.

Thanks Sandy!

By: Tom in GA

Tom in GA — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:11:51 +0000

My first thought was to think of Scrabble tiles in the 3-4 point range. I got lucky and thought of this one pretty quick (thanks to the \New\ states).

recaptcha: dogtrot $1-billion
(Sounds like a sign of the times…)