Bonus unsolved Riddle
Originally published on August 21, 2010
What do the following list of words all have in common?
pig, table, cab, real, yet, and ride
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…Hmm…
Well, the first letter of each of the words is later on in the alphabet than any of the other letters…
Then, by assigning a simple numerical value to each letter a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on…
Take the word, “yet”.
The first letter “y” would be equivalent to the numerical value 25.
Now, the “e” and the “t” – each 5 and 20, respectively.
As you can see, the value of the following letters are equivalent to the value of the first.
Couldn’t have explained it better, Ice Princess.
You are today’s winner.