Practice № 9 of 12
A past spine
The poem hides a 6-letter word. Each line holds one letter of it, in order — but nothing says which letter. Six guesses. Find the spine.
Poor Richard’s virtue: waste not, want not.
- 'So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better, if we bestir ourselves.
- There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve;
- "Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- for "industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them."
- Then plow deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
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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.