Seven Letters

All right, this one is a little bit better than last week! I promise.

Here it is.

There is in the English language, a 7 letter word that contains 9 words without rearranging any of the letters. So using pieces of the original word, without changing the placement of the letters, you can pull out 9 words.

So the original word has 7 letters, but there are 9 words buried in this 7 letter word.

For example, the word 'garbage'. This word contains these 3 words:

1. Garb

2. Bag

3. Age

So these small words are buried in that larger word. So that 7 letter word has 3 words in it, plus itself, that equals 4 words.

And the word we are looking for is a 7 letter word that has 9 words buried in it, including itself. There might even be more...

Now, there may be more than one of these words out there, but we are just looking for this one word.

Of course, we will accept any answer that works!

Answer the Puzzler »

Remember last week's puzzler?

Postmaster Peg

This is a postal puzzler. Here we go.

Peg the postmaster planned to take Friday off for a long weekend. And she left Bob the mailman in charge of her office for the day.

She said, "Use my desk and telephone but don't use my private bathroom, whatever you do."

So, Bob knew that there was no way she could find out if he did use it, and it was such a long way to the men's room at the other end of the building. Besides, he was careful to put the seat down when he was done.

Monday morning comes and Peg is back at work. She went into her office and then came out in two minutes. She called Bob to her office and informed him that since he couldn't follow orders, his chance for promotion was gone. He would never become a postmaster. And he is walking a mail route still, to this day.

How could she have known that he used her private restroom?

Good luck.