This riddle, brought to me by a student, has derailed my day. Please help. PS - I dont know the answer. #asknostr
First One
What is first but not second,
In laughing, but not in crying,
In Monopoly, but not in Settlers of Catan,
In Afghanistan, but not in Pakistan
In calmness, but not in noise,
in deflect, but not in reflect?
ANSWER ________________________________
Hint: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
LMFCD?
I get that too
Do those letters mean anything? Seems too easy.
I have to dig deeper. After work
I need to put it away 😂
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Can’t figure it out. No clue 🤷🏾🤣
I can’t either! It was in a math booklet written by Nobuyuki Yoshigahara
Looked him up for clues 😅
Three consectuive letters:
first = rst
laughing = ghi
monopoly = nop
Afghanistan = fgh
calmness = lmn
deflect def
Ahhhhh
I wonder about “what’s the first but not the second”. Does it mean we ignore the second words ? Or ignore sequences of letters present in both words ?
