Genius & Akrobatyushka
Genius
Ever wonder how the same principles that keep you from falling off a beam also keep a sentence from falling into confusion? I’m thinking we could swap tricks—one of your gravity‑defying moves, one of my word‑puzzle twists. What do you say?
Akrobatyushka
Yeah, that sounds like a blast. You throw your gravity‑defying trick my way, and I'll spin a word puzzle for you to juggle. Let’s see who keeps it together longer.
Genius
Great, I’ll start with a classic: keep your balance on one foot while reciting the alphabet backwards, but swap each letter for its opposite in the alphabet—so A becomes Z, B becomes Y, and so on. Your turn: a word puzzle that keeps my brain from wobbling. Bring it on.
Akrobatyushka
Alright, hit me back with this: think of a 5‑letter word. If you swap the first and last letters, you get a word that means “to go slowly.” If you replace the middle letter with an “E,” you get something you’d see on a sunny day. If you drop the last letter, you get a kind of drink you might sip on a hot afternoon. What’s the word? Give me the answer before I get bored.