Questions tagged [anagram]
An anagram rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.
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Which tiles would make the most 7 letter words? (0-2 blanks)
I just had "STRUNE?" (?=blank) and noticed A LOT of possible 7 letter words! Used an anagrammer and found 34! What is the combination of tiles is able to create the most 7 letter words?
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An anagrammed logic puzzle!
ot rleow utbrctsa aacpilt hwti
dioiatdn het ryuo
s-bcBPEFfJDfeFmksmPOkChDhrgBqjD-i---ffeNB
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Two similar animals
Can you find the 2 similar animals that has it's names scrambled in this text?
laneeatkajswliuotikes
Please take note of the tags.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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A Trivial Pursuit #17 (Science and Nature 3/4): Workaround
This is part 17 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Solve the clues and enter their answers into the grid ...
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The nameless horror
Long ago, we defeated the nameless horror that plagued our lands. We thought it was gone forever, but now ____. It's currently approaching our village roaring with ____ laugh, and witnesses say its ...
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Cryptogram or Anagram
Clues:
The answer is 7 characters
Answer can include the following characters: [a-zA-Z0-9]
Ideas:
I first used all characters adjacent to every capital letter and got: "rnaoihd", which ...
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What am I buying?
I'm shopping for an item with the following shopping list:
Try taco, (a creek in Oregon)
[Make it more +3X hsv], those cycles.
Energetic ball auto-caller
EWNICW XLJW & XEIXJWE DEIN TIYE EWAYKR
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Whose garden centre did we visit?
So my mum and I were in a garden centre the other day, run by a large British organisation.
Of course, garden centres sell all kinds of things, including home decoration. They had some jarred candles ...
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Introducing Punograms
Match each word in the first list with its punogram in the second.
14 bl see 77 222 68 904 500
bed lips rolo imom him 213
2B LL BG hob peg slip l8r
hi 314 ZZZ 335 wow! 85 PI
Define punogram.
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Five element puzzle
Born from water sun stone be B.
Five elements are ki.
The first give three, the rest he.
In five symbols, eight see.
From them form, evidently
That which is written for thee.
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Triple Riley Riddle
Below we have three Riley riddles.
The trick here is that the three answers are anagrams of each other.
Can you find all three?
I
In all, I am a soldier,
My prefix can be found on a plane,
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Time (and a place) for an odd-one-out puzzle
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?.
It is a tough task to create an 'odd-one-out' type puzzle whose solution lacks any ambiguity at all - it is all ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 21): Color of the Bells
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
A Motley ...
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What number is that ? Asks Grandpa
"So here is a number between 1 and 60" Says Grandpa
"If you take its WORD anagram and subtract this number you will get
Anagram of the number - number > 5
What is that number"?
"So it is the ...
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Mon Dieu! It's civil (servant) war!
The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions - place one tile in each region so that the tiles in any one ellipse can be re-arranged into an eight-letter solution to the corresponding clue!...
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Can you solve this devilish Junior Jumble?
In the game Undertale, there is a character named Papyrus who believes that the Jumble puzzle is much harder than the daily crossword.
Help prove him right by trying to solve this brainteaser:
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Show and tell (and show and tell!)
The seven regions formed by the intersecting ellipses are each home to exactly one of the seven tiles.
Can you place the tiles so that those in each ellipse can be rearranged to solve the ...
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The Moon and the Great Wall
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
Instructions for this modified connecting wall:
In the connecting wall below, each item as written contains one ...
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Why do I have so many unanswered puzzles?
I can't understand. I mean, I'm trying to be interesting. Maybe I'm just bad at this. Huh, maybe I should try clickbait... or something special... another type... no, not just another type... GOT IT! ...
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A quote whose file's corrupted
Here ter miase nt rivey deremanom’s feci heln we shut dlime hey ttick fs oritthouy ao t tabordinaub s. -Toythim hanZ
Hint:
Can you recover the original quote?
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A Party of Five
AMVVUEIGURISUCOLKTAUEETS
STTSIAOGMSEUHTLECTLH
ADBDECAECRNEPRPIGTEAAAISLNSNCIIENONG
EAAUAMSRFERORIICIPCEAAA
SUBSMWIAATMLEITETETYR
GDEEUNEXTUENERMONBOOMDSEIRUYSSS
SPRGAAARADLUMALNGDAAASANNTLDFO
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I turn into an animal
I am a city that ends in a city
I start with a state and end in a state
Move me around and I turn into an animal
What three consonant word am I?
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How do I win a strange game?
There's a phrase I need to remember, in order to be successful here.
In 1983, an important date, the SG-1000 was released by a company. If you can name that company, you're getting warm.
In fact, the ...
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Wordle Art Challenge [closed]
Design eight-bit-style glyphs in 6x5 pixels with three colors that can be used as a secondary challenge in Wordle.
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On the subject of anagrams
How many words or phrases shown below (Blockquotes) are anagrams of the phrases or the words listed here in this entire puzzle-including the answer?
A dry plow
Sword
Where is the Lord’s, Ted?
No
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A Grand Game (Find two words)
Find 2 relevant (but not strictly related) words using a logical method. One ends in 'R', the other in 'E'.
The method should be one which leads to the exact and specific letters for each word (no ...
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Not like the one in Texas
I... PILFER AND MASK (or SKIMP AND FLARE)
I also... BOB A GRANNY THERE
I... USE A PRISON and APE OUR SINS
I'm often... EYELESS AND SIT IN BINS
I... PIPED CURD AND I JEER, you see...
At the end of the ...
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A Station Story
A friend of mine who works with computers sent me this handwritten short story in the post with no explanation whatsoever.
It raises many questions, for one he usually just emails me, and he's never ...
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I think I've created a new type of puzzle: "Word ___"
I think I've created a new type of puzzle. I call it "Word ___"
Here is how to solve it:
The word in the above blank is the answer for this puzzle.
Step 1: Make a copy of the equations, but ...
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Signatures of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards?
This is from a real-life murder-mystery. In 2009 Edward Wayne Edwards was arrested and convicted of five murders, following a tip-off from his daughter April. Former detective John A. Cameron ...
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AnaCross II: it's bigger now
So, I've prepared another AnaCross puzzle. The rules are exactly the same: At the end of each row is a pool of letters; those letters are the letters that go in that row of the crossword. Normal ...
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Three quotes, thirteen anagrams
"My flight from ___ just arrived at Heathrow. The connecting flight leaves in two hours. I will arrive at ___ Terminal 1. I'm going to take a taxi to my hotel if ___ not available at that hour. ...
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The fearsome maiden
Fair maiden of ___, most feared in these parts,
with terrible power thou ___ men's hearts.
The beaux of all kingdoms thou ___ to doom;
thy ___ and light they seek, but find their tomb.
Excited, the ...
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Pairs of anagrams where the two words sound and look very different [closed]
This is a question about pairs of anagrams capable of flavoring puzzles as memorable and surprising because the two words are so different.
One of my favorite such pairs is chesty and scythe. These ...
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Two more words and their anagrams
Excluding the word SPINE, can you give me 2 words which are part of the human body that also have one word anagrams that are part of the human body?
Again, please exclude SPINE.
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Cryptic Clue Maze
The maze
The paths
Malfunctioning oven trade fixed kitchen (9)
Damages small vehicles (5)
Coastal airport department's vulnerability (3,8)
Happy about rook color (4)
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AnaCross: A crossword made of anagrams
This is a new type of puzzle I've devised: the AnaCross. Nothing new under the sun and all, I'm sure someone has made one before, but I've never seen it.
The rules are pretty simple. At the end of ...
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Got a name for our stuff toy
We are like babies, we still love our stuff toys even if we are already grown up, and we have 1 specific stuff toy that has a name that doesn't really exist for us humans.
I have made a puzzle to ...
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Guineas Dealer ||||||||
This visionary turns into a comedian, an animal and a fictional hero
around Christmas.
What is his favorite machine?
Note: The lines after the word "Dealer" in the title have nothing to do ...
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I invited them and no one came
My colleague told me this morning with frustration: To 200 friends I sent invitations to my birthday party, and not one person came. The last paragraph of the invitation had a mysterious sentence ...
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Words that are anagrams of themselves
Can you think of a 6+ letter word that is an anagram of itself? The rule is that the letters of the word must be able to be rearranged to spell the original word, but none of the letters are in their ...
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What is an Ants Letter™?
This is a variant on the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee.
If a letter conforms to a special rule, I call it an Ants Letter™.
Use the following examples below to find the rule.
Ants™
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An Anagram Tribond: You can love it, or not
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #48: Unusual tag mix
Figure out what these mixed up clues are supposed to be and solve the tribond, then repeat with the results!
Group 1: tubings, pertain, ...
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Crossword With Friends
So I recently created a crossword for you guys, but I misplaced everything except my list of words! Being too busy working on movie-related puzzles to recreate it, I asked some help from my friends (...
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Dead Letter Drops
Start with a word.
For each line below, drop the indicated number of letters from it, rearranging if necessary, to form a word with the (probably cryptical) meaning given. The first line clues your ...
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Who murdered His Majesty the King?
Furious, the chief officer of London's police force stood in the foyer of the late Majesty's mansion, trying to compose himself. Sitting before him were the three suspects, Toby and Ned (whom he'd ...
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Multilanguage generalization of "What number is that? Asks Grandpa"
This is a multilingual generalized follow-on to "What number is that? Asks Grandpa", which I restate as:
"What is the smallest positive English integer N, for which if you take its WORD anagram and ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #09 - “The” Cryptic Movies
This is the ninth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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Which of the following jumbled word is not a animal
This question was asked in mock test of an exam for which I am preparing.
Which of the following jumbled word is not a animal?
LATHPEEN
FEFEOC
I originally had the wrong set of letters for the ...
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Ingrid Deduction pops by with a puzzle
The other night I was sat at home in Providence when the doorbell rang. To my surprise, my very good friend Ingrid Deduction stood on the step, a huge grin on her face and a piece of paper held out ...
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