An enigma is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Below are a list of past weekly challenge enigma's listed in descending chronological order.
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man. Who Am I?
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?
Answer:
The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.
What is the pattern?
Answer:
One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)
