Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a terminal deletion game popular among fellow members of The National Puzzlers’ League. A terminal deletion involves dropping the first and last letters of a word to form a new one. For example, the word ample is a terminal deletion of sampled. So If you terminally delete the word for a large wooden box, you’ll get a large rodent. What’s the word? This is part of a complete episode.
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