A seven-letter word riddle asks what becomes longer when its third letter disappears. The trick depends on treating the word both as something with a meaning and as a string of characters, with a pun waiting at the end. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “The Seven-Letter Word That Becomes Longer When You Add a Letter”
I have a riddle.
I can take it.
Shields up.
What seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed? It’s longer with one extra letter added.
Lounger.
Lounger.
It is a bad pun.
Nice.
Lounger, you take out the U and you got longer.
But I’ve always liked those jokes and riddles and the wordplay where you treat a word as a word or you treat it as just a collection of characters.
Yeah.
Or as an object, right? As an idea or a thing.
There’s all these different ways to look at it.
We love these kinds of things, especially Martha because she likes puns.
Because I like springing them on you.
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