No. And no worries, either am I, and for that, I salute you! Major Depressive! (Please to refer to my general update thread if this makes no sense!) ;)

No, but thanks for reminding me I have a hobo trunk thawing for dinner. :yum:

HINT: BigV was on the right track.

[shame] I looked it up [/shame]
I wouldn't have worked it out.

No shame in looking it up if you're not pretending you guessed it, silly girl. ;)

The letter 'M'?

Nossir.

This is a good puzzle. I don't have the answer yet, but it's percolating in my head. :D

It's called being intellectually lazy :blush:

So, by extension, since I am actively working on this puzzle, but not solving it, I am not lazy. But my failure means that I'm intellectually inadequate?

Who exactly are you calling stupid?

Still thinking about this one.

Let me know when y'all want to cry uncle.

give me a moment to think about this

It has to do with words, not symbols, but I'm stumped at how ALL can contain EQUAL and then become second...

(I cheated.) Unless I missed something in the explanation, I don't think ALL is relevant. I also got hung up on that, which contributed to me looking it up.

The puzzle again, for convenience:

Decapitate me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?



The official answer from braingle.com:

The word Seven.

seven
even (equal)
eve (2nd person, according to the Bible)
v (Roman numeral five; two less than seven)

Ahh, I'd figured out the steps, but not the starting point, and had gone down the same blind alley as HM. Nice.