On Oct 25, 9:14*am, JR wrote:
Giles wrote:
On Oct 24, 10:31 pm, JR wrote:
STOP
POTS
TOPS
POST
SPOT
OPTS

Quick. *Nicely done. *Did you happen to know this already?

No, but without the clue that one of the words was seen by almost
everyone virtually every day, it would have taken longer to find the
starting point.

Yeah, I dithered for a while about whether to include that clue. I
discovered a long time ago that this is the most difficult part of
creating puzzles.....the hints/clues/questions/directions/etc. have to
be challenging enough to hold people's interest, and at the same time
simple/easy/leading enough to avoid having them throw up their hands
in disgust ane walk away.

All that said, I still think you did a fine job.

giles