Letters and numbers. Letters spell My Life and the number 1 separates the letters, but the important thing is the count and that is the four number 1s which as you rightly noticed can be Four Ones which then sounds like For Once and then with the My Life words you get “For Once in My Life”.
What a fantastic way to cue in the brilliant Stevie Wonder with …
I wonder what we might be looking at here.
So there’s a nail but no hammer and the word coffee possibly spilt in half.
So is the nail splitting the coffee?
There is no hammer, but could this be a nail in the coffin?
Nail in the COF FIN
So that would require the word to be COFFIN rather than COFFEE.
Ann–You got it exactly. You have the mind of a scientist/mathematician. I’m impressed!
ManjiB–All I can say is with your way of thinking, you are a literary artist. I’m impressed!
I cheated and wrote it out on a bit of paper. I was trying to take one letter away from Bone and add EAR and see what I could make. I made up all sorts of new animals
Then I looked again and realised bone has the word ONE contained within it. There B (-one) + EAR is BEAR
I might have been on the wrong track here …
I was looking at a BONE and a BACON RASHER which might somehow take be to a BABOON or a RACOON or something along those lines
But, having seen your logic, the answer written on paper and in black and white would indeed appear to be BEAR.
Now you’ve put the actual answer I can see it. It really took some head scratching that one. I do like a puzzle I definitely had a misspent youth I think