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Wordplay · Ages 12–15

Riddle #139

I'm a five-letter word for something you might skip across a pond. Knock off my first two letters and I become the number 1. What word am I?

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Answer: Stone

S-T-O-N-E, minus the S and the T, leaves ONE.

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