What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Think you have it? The answer is below.
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Answer: The word WHOLESOME (take away the WHOLE and SOME remains)
The trick here is that your brain hears "whole" and "some" as everyday words describing amounts, so you go hunting for some object or quantity you can physically remove a chunk from. That's the misdirection — it sounds like a math or logic puzzle about fractions or portions, when really it's a spelling trick wearing a word-problem costume. The moment you realize WHOLESOME is just WHOLE and SOME stitched together, the riddle flips from "what thing loses part of itself" to "what word is secretly two smaller words." Take away the letters W-H-O-L-E, and S-O-M-E is left standing right there in plain sight. It's satisfying precisely because the answer was hiding in plain language the entire time, disguised by meaning instead of letters.
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