Here's a real stumper:
There are 5 words:
QUOTE
TRUE
NURSE
SPUR
SLIM
From these 5 words, there is a connection that will reveal a single letter, what is it?
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Sign up to join this communityI have this bizarre theory that it might be the letter
M
The words are related through
”Brain Damage” by Eminem.
Here’s how:
The first verse features a discussion between Mathers and the school NURSE.
The second verse QUOTEs a school bullying incident that apparently gave Mathers brain damage. It appears that at least the part of there being a bully named D’Angelo Bailey is TRUE: the song SPURred a lawsuit by that very same bully. The case received some attention, since the judge dropped the lawsuit, and even a couple of rhymes.
This all brings us back to the single letter by the following path:
Mathers -> SLIM Shady -> Eminem -> M&M -> M
..Yeah, I’m probably overthinking this by at least a factor of ten.
My letter is:
$\pi$
Because:
The letters used are E, I, and 10 consecutive letters from L-U. Using $e$, $i$, and the digits 1 and 0, you can add $\pi$ to form $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$.
This puzzle's been bugging me for a while, so I thought I'd take a crack at it.
I think the letter is
l
Which is a
lower-case "L"
Going word by word, you can construct a simple representation of each of them using it.
QUOTE
Quotation mark(s) " look like two tiny "l"s.
TRUE
The equals symbol = looks like two "l"s on top of each other.
NURSE
The symbol for a Hospital + looks like two "l"s, crossed.
SPUR
A simple spur x looks like two "l"s, crossed.
SLIM
A single "l" is pretty slim--as slim as letters go!
An argument could be made for the answer being
upper-case "I"
but that is a letter that appears in a clue word, while
lower-case "L"
does not.
I think it is
A
Because
'A', although being a fairly common letter does not occur in any of these of this words. Also 'A' is the only vowel not present in these words.
I'm not sure... The answer could be
U
Because
1. The letter "u" appears 4 times, which is uncommon in English.
2. The letter counts produce two individual "dots" and one "line", which is morse code for "u":
a
b
c
d
e ...
f
g
h
i .
j
k
l .
m .
n .
o .
p .
q .
r ...
s ...
t ..
u ....
v
w
x
y
z
I think it might be..
Y.
QUOTE
Got nothing yet.
TRUE
True/false can also be displayed as Y/N.
NURSE
Got nothing yet.
SPUR
If you look at a spur off of a boot from the top, it closely resembles the letter Y.
SLIM
The letter Y starts out wide and gets slimmer the further you go down.