The Dragon Tamer's Challenge

[Sioux City Male]

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?

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

 

[Dionysian Beast]

In what order do you remove the letters? Left to right, or right to left?

EDIT: Well, nevermind.

 

[appleapps]

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

Congrats Sioux City Male

damn, I have a feeling I am not gonna be getting too many more of these riddles,,,,, too many smart people starting to show up

 

[Sioux City Male]

Congrats Sioux City Male

damn, I have a feeling I am not gonna be getting too many more of these riddles,,,,, too many smart people starting to show up

Kinda cheated on this one. Got an E-mail about a week ago with this.

Sorry

 

[appleapps]

Kinda cheated on this one. Got an E-mail about a week ago with this.

Sorry

lol ok, so i am working with people who solve riddles on a regular basis??

how about a longer and hopefully harder one, up for it?

 

[Sioux City Male]

lol ok, so i am working with people who solve riddles on a regular basis??

how about a longer and hopefully harder one, up for it?

Please, I would love to figure it out.

 

[appleapps]

You have been zapped into this room by means unknown. There are two doors on one side of the room, there are two computers. It even seems they are each guarding a door.

There are two signs, and a leper in the room with you.

The first sign reads:

"Behind one door is God realization. Behind the other door is a room painted entirely green. The only things in that room are a man and a ladder, both of which are painted entirely green. The man has been hired by the coalition of Gangsta Rappers to hurl a non-stop barrage of insults at anyone who enters the room. " (end sign 1)

The second sign sits between the two computers (also the two doors) and reads as follows:

"One of these computers is programmed to lie to you regardless of how friendly you are to the user interface, the other computer is programmed to tell the truth, regardless of your emotional state."

It is about this time that the gangrenous leper begins to speak "I get you deal on phone time $.08 minutes weekdays all odd hours. $.10 on Thursday except the hour between 2:00 and 3:00, or any registered birthday . . . "

He begins to - quite slowly - lurch towards you, he's already reaching out towards you, you get the sense he's a "touchy-feely" sorta person. You quickly calculate you have time to ask one computer one question before he reaches you. The riddle before you is this: What question do you ask, and to which computer do you pose your question? Remember, you don't know whether the computer's answer will be a lie, and you've got to figure out which door to go out.

 

[Sioux City Male]

You have been zapped into this room by means unknown. There are two doors on one side of the room, there are two computers. It even seems they are each guarding a door.

There are two signs, and a leper in the room with you.

The first sign reads:

"Behind one door is God realization. Behind the other door is a room painted entirely green. The only things in that room are a man and a ladder, both of which are painted entirely green. The man has been hired by the coalition of Gangsta Rappers to hurl a non-stop barrage of insults at anyone who enters the room. " (end sign 1)

The second sign sits between the two computers (also the two doors) and reads as follows:

"One of these computers is programmed to lie to you regardless of how friendly you are to the user interface, the other computer is programmed to tell the truth, regardless of your emotional state."

It is about this time that the gangrenous leper begins to speak "I get you deal on phone time $.08 minutes weekdays all odd hours. $.10 on Thursday except the hour between 2:00 and 3:00, or any registered birthday . . . "

He begins to - quite slowly - lurch towards you, he's already reaching out towards you, you get the sense he's a "touchy-feely" sorta person. You quickly calculate you have time to ask one computer one question before he reaches you. The riddle before you is this: What question do you ask, and to which computer do you pose your question? Remember, you don't know whether the computer's answer will be a lie, and you've got to figure out which door to go out.

You would go to either computer and ask Which door would the other computer tell me opened?

Then open the other door.

 

[appleapps]

You would go to either computer and ask Which door would the other computer tell me opened?

Then open the other door.

WOOOO HOOOOOO CONGRATS SIOUX CITY MALE

see you are definately too smart for me,,,,, even after reading the answer i had to sit there and figure it out, lol

 

[Sioux City Male]

WOOOO HOOOOOO CONGRATS SIOUX CITY MALE

see you are definately too smart for me,,,,, even after reading the answer i had to sit there and figure it out, lol

If you ask the lieing one what the other would say, it would tell me a lie. If you asked the true one, it would tell me the truth about the lieing one. Ahhhh, maybe I better stop, I'm starting to confuse myself.

 

[appleapps]

If you ask the lieing one what the other would say, it would tell me a lie. If you asked the true one, it would tell me the truth about the lieing one. Ahhhh, maybe I better stop, I'm starting to confuse myself.

see why it took me a minute even after reading it, lol

 

[Sioux City Male]

Well, leaving for the night. Thanks for the riddles hun.

 

[appleapps]

Well, leaving for the night. Thanks for the riddles hun.

nite and thanks for playing with me,,,,,,,ummm i mean guessing the riddles, hee hee

 

[Dionysian Beast]

No more riddles? Not that I was really great at solving them, but I could at least try a bit