A riddle called “7 is the number that starts with a letter” has blown away minds of tiktok users recently.
Riddles surely can be an effective way of getting your mind engaged. And sometimes, it gets engaged for a very long time than you would have wanted. Not all riddles are easily solvable, are they?
Especially, during this time of lockdown, we don’t usually have something to do everytime. We are just getting bored, trying to contain ourselves inside our own home. Some Netflix subscribers may argue with that though.
Whatsoever, Riddles really do help to get your mind engaged in something. It also prevents your mind to think of negative stuff. But how good is a riddle if you just can’t solve it? No matter how hard you try.
Here is a such riddle which you have been hearing for the past few days. This riddle has been getting immense popularity on social media, especially among the tiktok users. It’s called “7 Is the number that starts with a letter.”
The riddle has been getting over the brain of most of the users online. They have been getting frustrated with the riddle as they couldn’t solve it. But no worries now. Finally, you are going to know what the riddle actually means.
“7 is the only number that starts with a letter” HUH????????
— shady jungwoo facts (@milfwoo) June 25, 2020
What is the meaning of riddle “7 is the number that starts with a letter?”
Well, there have been many different speculation of the riddle online. However, no one of the users have come up with the convincing answer of the riddle. But the most convincing one among them is explained below.
If you go back and see at those numbers, I mean all of the numbers start with a letter. Such as One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. But what is so unique that only 7 is the one that starts with a letter.
Inorder to explain that, you need to replace the first letter of those numbers with the number itself. As for example: 1ne. 2wo, 3hree, 4our, 5ive, 6ix, 7even, 8ight and 9ine. If you look at these new numbers deeply, you will see 7even is slightly more off the line than other. How?
Because when the first letter of the word “Seven” is replaced by 7, there remains another whole word called “even.” This is not found on any other numbers as you replaced their first letter with the number itself.
Hence, When the first letter is replaced by the number, only 7even makes a meaningful word “even.” This makes number 7, the only number that starts with a letter because it ends up to form a meaningful word.
someone said that is because of this:
1ne 2wo 3hree 4our 5ive 6ix seven 8ight 9ine— val⁷ (@joonsrare) June 25, 2020
We know this explanation is not convincing as you would have thought. But you were already given a disclaimer before that this may not fully convince you. But this explanation is the most convincing one that the online users have come up with.
How did this trend get started on Tiktok?
As everything else does. Creativity. But lockdown and quarantine seems to be playing their own roles on people coming up with these riddles. It was first asked by a creator and many more started following it. Some of them even tried to solve it the best way they could.
On contrary, many of the users failed to solve the riddle. But you don’t need to worry about it anymore. There have been plenty explanations of the riddle which can be found online. But we still believe hat this one is the best explanation you could ever get.
If you’re not convinced yet, there is a whole youtube video made explaning this riddle. You can check that out as well.