Answers:

1. Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I

2. Feedback

3.

1. dependant

Haha, these were very, very hard. I'll try and get easier ones.

1. A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.

The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.
The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

2. Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low."

1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
2. Thermometer/Apoplexy
3. Delaware/Bordering
4. Surprised/Trashiness
5. Throughout/Stumblebum

3. An animal is hidden in each of these. Find out what the animals are! (for example, "To run away or escape" could be a "flea")
1. hair-control foam
2. very exposed
3. tellin' falsities
4. a lamenting cry
5. a dull person
6. a precious or loved one
7. first you get a parking ticket, then you get this
8. these make up a chain

Ha! I'm taking the idea from FireLordZuko93. It's just too fun. Alright, I'm going to post 3 problems each blog, and you've got to answer them. The next blog I'll post the answers and the next three questions.

Sound good? Good

Yes, these ARE hard.

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There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

Which is the shortest word in English that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E and F ?







The following are clues that describe words containing an "ant". The clues do not refer to the words themselves, rather they refer to the word that must be added to the "ant". For example, "an ant that is waiting for something to happen" would be "expectant" (expect ant). The ant may appear at the beginning or the end of the word. Where it appears is given in the hint should you need it.

1. This ant will rely on you.
2. The end of an ant's trousers.
3. The first ant.
4. This will burn an ant severely.
5. Two ants going to get married in secret.
6. This ant rides up sloped driveways.

I think I might leave TV.com and flee to the Refuge. I know, I've preached against it, but I'm really fed up with the inactivity in TV.com and the new layout just pushed me over the edge. I just can't! So, I'll be visiting here once a day or so just to make sure everything is fine. I won't completely abandon you. I can't wait to see some of the people I've met here at the Refuge. My screen name is the same as it is on here.

Anyway, I guess this is somewhat of a goodbye. I tried, I failed. I've got to start being a bit more selfish. Anyone else fleeing to the Refuge? Ciao!

-Isabel