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Sparkling Tuesday
Bill Earl
A word problem for today:
Starting with the word SPARKLING, remove one letter to create another word. Do not change the order of any remaining letters.
Continue removing one letter at a time, each time forming a new word until you are left with a one-letter word.
List the 9 words, starting with SPARKLING
Re: Sparkling Tuesday
Alex Y
Don't know how to obfuscate this one, so I'll use simple code. The letters taken out, after ROT13 are
YXNAFETV
Almost there...
Bill Earl
I'm with you up until the last one.
C
Alex Y
Should have been the last letter of my code. Careless error on my part.
Good puzzle. I kept getting stumped looking for a 5-letter word. I found two paths down to six letters, then from 4 to 1, but the 5-letter "bridge" took a while to find.
Bill Earl
I got stuck in the same place. There were a couple of promising paths that turned into dead-ends.
Tuesday Answer
Bill Earl
The words are:
SPARKLING
SPARKING
SPARING
SPRING
SPRIG
PRIG
PIG
PI
I