Questions tagged [anagram]
An anagram rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.
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The first Density™ Puzzle!
Welcome to the very first puzzle in a new series! It's all about (hopefully) exploring new ways of creating puzzles, as densely as possible.
If you'd like to create your own Density™ puzzle, the ...
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence? [closed]
This is a challenge for word-puzzle lovers. It might be a bit more of a game than a puzzle, but I think it is not limitless in it's answers, so a final answer could be found (eventually).
What is the ...
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A new word puzzle
Here is a new, original puzzle that I have made! You have to find the word that I describe.
Me, I am an introduction
My anagram is past tense of what you are doing now.
The homophone of my anagram is ...
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It's time to play...Add-A-Gram!
Anyone who loves Scrabble or this site is probably familiar with anagrams. But what about Add-A-Grams? An Add-A-Gram takes a word, adds a letter, and then shuffles the letters to make a new word (I ...
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Anagrammatically speaking
Fill in the blanks below. Each sentence uses words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and ...
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Oppogram - Anagram of the opposite
Let's define an Oppogram as an anagram of opposites. Provided the words below, find their opposites, and then answer the question using an anagram of the words you found.
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Anagrammatically speaking 2
Fill in the blanks below. Each sentence uses words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and ...
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So many Anagrams!
For this puzzle, you have to find two words that are anagrams of each other to fit into the "____". For example, you might place earth and heart.
After we _____ for many hours we were very ...
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Three linked oppograms
Inspired by this puzzle where an oppogram was defined as an anagram of opposites
For example:
$\color{blue}{ratify }\space\color{red}{smart}\space\color{green}{peace}\rightarrow\color{blue}{deny}\...
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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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Rosetta's Stone
Another puzzle in the spirit of the Density™ puzzle. Fairly hard I suspect. Enjoy!
Final Answer: (6, 7)
Version for the color impaired here.
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
Hint 4
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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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I Never do Tire!
Hagfy was correct, I will never "tire" of making these puzzles! Here are the previous three: 1 2 3
Me, I am average,
My homophone is what you shouldn't be,
My other homophone is your ...
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Anagrammatically speaking 3
Fill in the blanks below. Each sentence uses words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and ...
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Read. Learn. Live. Escape
You wake lying face down on a hard stone floor. Your head hurts. As your eyes find focus, you see a haiku scratched into the ground beside you:
A wrong step brings death!
But, a wrong guess brings ...
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My Anagram is Noble
Here is another one of my classic puzzles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).
Me, I am what you do when you don't want to do something,
My anagram is noble,
My other anagram is necessary for human life,
My ...
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I was inspired to create a third (and not final) anagram puzzle
Inspired by @QuantumTwinkie's anagram puzzles.
First one to answer all of them correctly will get the tick! Good luck!$\;\color{green}{\checkmark}$
Partial answers are also welcome :)
The ...
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Fully-Firstable Anagram Sets
Okay, first let's define some terminology:
Anagram - Oh come on, how are you on Puzzling.SE if you don't know this one?
Anagram Set - a list of words that are all anagrams of eachother, e.g.:
ACTS
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A Letter: The Archenemy
A week ago, when I was travelling on an airplane to my city London, I found an envelope. The strange thing was that I found my name on it. So, I opened it. It read:
Hi,
Did you miss me? I hope ...
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Me, I am circumference
Here is a puzzle in the same form of my previous puzzles, here and here.
Me, I am circumference,
My anagram is what you should do,
My anagram's homophone is what you do in school,
My anagram's other ...
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Race to the Past: A Historical Scavenger Hunt
This was intended to be for History Fortnight, but I didn't quite get it finished up in time. (I now have a history of just missing these cutoffs.) Here's the puzzle, though you'll definitely need ...
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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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I was inspired to create an anagram puzzle
Inspired by @QuantumTwinkie's anagram puzzles, I have created my own anagram puzzle. It has $20$ lines. Some are easy, some are hard, but whoever can find them all will deserve the tick $\color{green}{...
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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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Anagrammatically speaking 4
Fill in the blanks of each sentence below with words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and ...
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A Page of Puzzling
I found this puzzle page from a newspaper and found it absolutely confounding. The sudoku had question marks and other things all over it, the logic puzzle made no sense, the cryptic crossword was ...
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Dissecting Africa
A straightforward puzzle for the patient. There are no tricks or decryptions needed. The task is 'simple' albeit potentially challenging (and maybe time-consuming).
The goal
Dissect the Africa-...
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Anagrams: From Food to Food [closed]
A challenge a friend and I came up with to entertain ourselves, but found a little too taxing:
Find 5 single word foods (i.e. comestibles or dishes) whose letters can be reshuffled to give another ...
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I'm quite famous nowadays, mostly because of my owner
I have:
An anagram that sharpens your imagination
An anagram that doesn't ask for your permission
An anagram that is not very original
An anagram that is not very important
What am I?
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Complaint at the PSE lounge
While walking through the PSE lounge, I noticed a piece of paper on one of the tables. Picking it up, I saw several things. The first, was a couple of sentences at the top:
I love this place! But ...
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Step into the Octagram
The diagram below shows a partially-filled "octagram". Step into it, if you dare!
At every vertex in a long word.
Flowing into every vertex are two short words. Anagrammed together, these two short ...
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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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Anagramming in sixes
Fill in the gaps in the following conversations. All six gaps contain the same six letters in a different order, with spaces and punctuation where appropriate.
Conversation #1
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A riddle of anagrams
I must get to the bottom of this
But it is so far away
It couldn't be further
So I swap round to be a gardener
I hold up my plants
Holding the nutrients they need
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My Anagram is Coming
Here is another one of my classic puzzles (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5).
Me, I'm telling you something,
My anagram is coming,
My other anagram is to make something different.
My Second anagram's homophone is ...
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No Halves Hath the Heptagram
Here is the heptagram:
Rules are the same as for the octagram. However, the heptagram has the very nice property that all words are unique. I.e., as you go around, you will not encounter any ...
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The Etiquette Room
This puzzle can be solved as puzzle on its own, but its solution is also part of Deusovi's Community Metapuzzle.
You wake up feeling rather dazed. Your head is pounding. Whatever just happened did ...
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A derivative word search
This square is composed of elements, all in the same set, written either horizontally or vertically. There is no overlap, each letter belongs to exactly one word. However, the words are anagrammed. ...
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A Smuggled List of S'S
Smuggled this strange list from [redacted] 's place. Maybe he is making a puzzle. Who is the victim?
Scarlet covers
Swindler's imprecation
Sour disordered equipment
Smash journal
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A cryptic tricolour
This puzzle is part 8 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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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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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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Anagrid (word search with anagrams)
I have to give Tom the opportunity for a rematch, so here's my attempt at an Anagrid (here is the first puzzle in the series). The rules:
This square is composed of elements, all in the same set, ...
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Where Is My Friend?
A friend of mine, one of those world-traveler, rugged outdoorsman, live-out-of-a-tent-and-backpack sorts, has just sent me an interesting email:
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Twelve Labours - #12 Pluto Pups
This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11
It was ...
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Room 11: Bits and pieces of Chinese history
Credit: Brandon X.
This is part of a larger riddle room puzzle. Other rooms:
Room 213
You have just woken up. You recall the night before, being driven from your home to a luxurious hotel by some ...
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ANAGRAM in a REBUS
Given below is a picture.
Find the word(s), and use it/them to find the name of a famous personality.
Hint 1
Hint 2
Good Luck!
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I behave and am armed
Starting with I behave and am armed, do all the following in the correct order to reveal a famous American history quote.
Remove one word
Remove two letters from a ...
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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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Anagrammatically speaking 5
Fill in the blanks of each sentence below with words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and ...
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