Practice № 7 of 12
A past spine
The poem hides a 5-letter word. Each line holds one letter of it, in order — but nothing says which letter. Six guesses. Find the spine.
It ate every fish in the sea, till one small ’Stute Fish taught it manners.
- IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and
- he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the
- dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the
- mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All
- the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till
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Back to today
Play today's riddle, or pick another past spine below.
- № 15 letters · Lewis Carroll
- № 24 letters · Lewis Carroll
- № 35 letters · Edward Lear
- № 44 letters · Edward Lear
- № 54 letters · Edward Lear
- № 64 letters · Edward Lear
- № 75 letters · Rudyard Kipling
- № 85 letters · Rudyard Kipling
- № 96 letters · Benjamin Franklin
- № 105 letters · Benjamin Franklin
- № 116 letters · Various (King James translators)
- № 125 letters · Various (King James translators)
New to this? How to play. Every line is quoted from a public-domain text; the sources name each edition.