The Proudest Brain Game
By Sandy Wood

Today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Tuesday Test Time asks you to break down an eight-letter word, one letter at a time. Are you up for the challenge?
By removing one letter from the mix at each step, and rearranging the other letters as necessary to form new words, reduce the word "PROUDEST" to the letter "O." P R O U D E S T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ O Here is one SOLUTION. ONE SOLUTION: P R O U D E S T S P O R T E D P O S T E D O P T E D D O P E P O D D O O Did you come up with an alternate sequence of words? Feel free to share them in the comments below, and thanks for playing!