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Palindrome Puzzles
Last Updated Oct 6, 2008 00:20 PM
Palindrome Puzzles
This type of puzzle is called a "palindrome". A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence which reads the same backward or forward. The one above goes a step further, since it also reads the same upside down when written in capital letters.
What word becomes a palindrome when viewed upside down and backwards?
Answer:
SWIMS
Pronounced as one letter but written with three,
Only two different letters are used to make me;
I'm double, I'm single I'm black, blue, and gray;
I'm read from both ends and the same either way.
Answer:
EYE
What word, when written in capital letters is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
Answer: NOON
What call for help, when written in capital letters is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?
Answer: SOS
Single word palindromes!
2002
ABBA (the pop band)
Anna
atta (as in atta boy!)
Ava
bib
Bob
civic
Dad
deed
did
dud
ere
eke!
eve
ewe
eye
gag
gig
Glenelg [a village on the West coast of Scotland, near where Gavin Maxwell lived with his otters and wrote "Ring of Bright Water"; it is also a town in Australia]
Hannah
huh?
kayak
kook
level
Li'l
ma'am (as in "yes ma'am")
madam
Malayalam (South Indian Language)
Mom
Mum
noon
Nun
Ogopogo (a mythological creature said to inhabit Okanagan Lake in British Columbia)
Otto
pap
peep
pep
pip
pop
poop(as in "I'm pooped!)
pup
racecar
radar
redder
redivider (longest English word palindrome)
refer
repaper
reviver
rotor
rotator
sagas
sees
sexes
shahs
sis
solos
SOS
stats
tat
TNT
toot
tot
Tut
wow
Palindrome Math
111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
(Note: We have included this one because the problem itself is a palindrome, and the solution is a palindrome; however, the problem and the solution combined into one phrase are not a palindrome)
And of course, you can make palindromes out of numbers without difficulty, such as these years: 1991, 1881, 1771, 1661, etc.
Palindrome phrases!
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
A Santa at NASA
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
A Toyota...race fast...safe car...a Toyota!
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
And DNA and DNA and DNA...
Bald elf fled lab
Bosses sob
Camp Mac
Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.
Dee saw a seed
Delia sailed
Delia sailed, eva waved, elias ailed
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