Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Sorry if this is too simple, or too stupid. What animal do you get if you take away dad from Abba? (for those of you who are going "What?!?!?!", there is a legitimate answer) Please post answer anywhere, but explanation in spoilers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 (edited) I'd say.. transpose a couple of letters and put it up to a mirror.. leaves you with "a"- not sure what animal that could be Edited May 15, 2008 by angieinchains Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 The key words are obviously "dad" and "Abba". Capitalization is irrelevant. The answer is not a palindrome, even though the key words are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 Just a guess: Any animal? Dad is English (or American) and Abba is Aramaic for the same concept. Take "American" and "Aramaic" and subtract the common letters, you get ANE or An E or "ANY" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 I shared an above idea: That one uses a mirror on abba so it becomes some kind of inversion of the bs to ds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 A hog set it up as a subtraction where the letters of the words represent their "number" in the alphabet. 1221-414 = 807 or HOG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 A hog set it up as a subtraction where the letters of the words represent their "number" in the alphabet. 1221-414 = 807 or HOG O is the 0th letter of the alphabet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 No guess, but... I was thinking it has to do with the band, Abba. That would explain the title... Unless it was merely done to mislead the simple minded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 O is the 0th letter of the alphabet? I figured that complaint wasn't long in coming. And I agree completely. The "logic" isn't sound. I'm just guessing that's what the puzzler was looking for. Do you have a better solution?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 No guess, but... I was thinking it has to do with the band, Abba. That would explain the title... Unless it was merely done to mislead the simple minded I was thinking the same thing, especially since ABBA is an acronym for the first letters of the four members' first names. I couldn't find any reference to any of them being "dad" though, and couldn't think of an animal even if you took a letter out...I guess you could make BAA and say it's a sheep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 A hog set it up as a subtraction where the letters of the words represent their "number" in the alphabet. 1221-414 = 807 or HOG That's my solution. And I know not everyone would like this one, which led to my disclaimer above the OP. That being said, not every puzzle can be a 5-star puzzle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 because it was ABBA DAD - B = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 That's my solution. And I know not everyone would like this one, which led to my disclaimer above the OP. That being said, not every puzzle can be a 5-star puzzle. 'o' is not the 0th letter of the alphabet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 I agree. This solution doesn't follow the parameters of the problem. o can't = 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted May 17, 2008 Report Share Posted May 17, 2008 'o' is not the 0th letter of the alphabet only when 'm' is the Mth letter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sorry if this is too simple, or too stupid.
What animal do you get if you take away dad from Abba?
(for those of you who are going "What?!?!?!", there is a legitimate answer)
Please post answer anywhere, but explanation in spoilers.
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