Say something cryptic to the person above.

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Yes it is! I'm not good at cryptic clues, I hardly do them, but once I had a book of crosswords and something like that, and one of them was cryptic, but it told you how to do them. And I learned how to do the losing head ones, where you remove the first letter. And I made up that one, it's cold in winter, get rid of the C, and you get old, another word for mature.

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I cut the feet off the chair, and it turned to water.

i can not determine this one.
i suspect the answer may me h2o, but i can not see exactly why.


if one "cuts the foot off the chair", then the word will be "hair" (which starts with an "h", but the rest of the word is still there and can not be ignored). maybe you mean "h"+"air" which is hydrogen plus oxygen (but air is only 21% oxygen) , and each oxygen atom requires 2 hydrogen atoms to become water and that may be covered by the snippet of your sentence that reads (and it turned "to" (which is phonetically identical to "two" or "2").
who knows?
it annoys me if i can not work out the meaning of a deliberately cryptic puzzle, and i begin to wonder if the foundation of the puzzle is sound.

there are a few alternative words for "chair" (like "throne" and "seat" and "stool" and "pew" etc, and none of them (with their first letter removed) provide a basis for any synonym for water).


i hope someone can work out what you meant

this is a fun thread, but anyone can formulate a cryptic question that even the smartest person can not fathom.

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