Questions tagged [anagram]
An anagram rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.
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Letter Police to the Rescue
You're sitting at your Alphabet City Police Department sergeant's desk on a normal Wednesday when the phone rings.
"Oh my god, oh my god! Please help me. It's my pet word. It's been, well, I ...
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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 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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The hardest crossword you'll do today!
This could well be the most difficult crossword you do today!
Please note that the use of Google and other search engines is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
(Of course, I have no way of policing this, but if ...
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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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Salt, pepper, herbs and spices
This puzzle is dedicated to an avid violinist.
Who is the violinist?
Hint:
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The Language Genie
My friend Arie has a toy called a "Language Genie". If you give it a word in English, it will pick four different languages and find the translation of the English word in each language. Then it makes ...
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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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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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Anagram’s all over this place
I met a fellow puzzler from a certain country and town. When I asked where he was from, he replied
My prefix is anagram
My infix is anagram
My suffix is anagram
Where is he from?
Hint: When ...
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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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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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Cryptically dumb medieval jokes
Why did the chicken cross the river?
Well, I believe that is a question too vague to classify for a riddle, eh? Well, I had to draw your attention. Actually, my story is a bit more complicated than ...
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No tea. No coffee. No water
Fr Owen More had left the exclusive Dublin Temperance Society meeting and was relieved to be sitting down in the living room of Mrs. Philippa Glass. She brought him a
wee fat-free jam oat scone
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Returning the Cricket Kit
It was approaching the Easter Holidays at Farthingbottom School and Class 5M had been asked to clean out the cricket pavilion, ready for the start of the season next term.
Under one of the benches ...
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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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Anagram holiday
Virtues, we devour and restore, usher a puzzle.
Related to the above sentence, find a six-letter word, which anagrams to gives words starting with each of the five different letters of the word.
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Theorists sure want true answers to this!
So, birds eat bread I toss.
One romantic kiss in the rain's too nice, methinks.
Untidy notes disrupted a student in a study period.
Deodorant on to end an odor.
The wisdom of anagrams fathoms a game ...
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Name the sword aloud to save the castle from the monster
One morning the castle awoke to a shout:
"A monster's attacking, come quick!"
"Call for the wizard", said somebody else,
"He'll save us - his favourite trick".
They ...
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Anagram Sentences
For each of the below sentences, find a set of anagrams that can fill in the blanks to form a coherent, grammatically correct sentence. See the example below if you don't understand. I won't provide ...
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The King's new dress
The King has come to me at once
And ordered that I make a suit
"The suit should have a lot of folds
Contain a lot of metal discs
Please color it by using paint
Then decorate with flower ...
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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)
Anger about queer, out celebrity ...
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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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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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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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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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Witness intimidation
After solving this puzzle, I received an envelope in the mail. I opened the envelope, only to find three letters inside. The first one read:
I know who you are
I'm sending my greeting
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Three linked oppograms
Inspired by this puzzle where an oppogram was defined as an anagram of opposites
For example:
$\color{blue}{ratify }\space\color{red}{smart}\space\color{green}{peace}\rightarrow\color{blue}{deny}\...
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Strange Kids Playing in a Nice Place
I am just back from a wonderful place and can't help sharing my experiences!
The place is really fun and amazing. There are movie theatres, libraries, music stores and what not! But I don't usually ...
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It's time to play...Add-A-Gram!
Anyone who loves Scrabble or this site is probably familiar with anagrams. But what about Add-A-Grams? An Add-A-Gram takes a word, adds a letter, and then shuffles the letters to make a new word (I ...
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I was inspired to create a third (and not final) anagram puzzle
Inspired by @QuantumTwinkie's anagram puzzles.
First one to answer all of them correctly will get the tick! Good luck!$\;\color{green}{\checkmark}$
Partial answers are also welcome :)
The ...
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The answer is right here silly
I need your help with this one. I had a mixup at work today.
As you can clearly see I missed part of my to do list today.
Upon arriving at work, within minutes I received this email from my boss.
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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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Surreal Dreaming in Wild Westworld
Of course you can skip this (somewhat long) bit and check out the deal below to see if it's worth your time.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a weird dream. It's been lingering in my mind, and I need ...
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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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Historical figure word-search
There are 22 historical figures on this board. Can you find them all?
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I Hope You Like Connect Walls!
Your task?
Sort the 16 words into 4 groups of 4 words.
Each group will have something in common.
All the common things relate to a tag.
What tag?
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Shortest way from B to A
Spent most of my life out at sea
I've crossed a shark or two – or three
Stayed calm – a skipper brave and tough
Yet one of them did call my bluff
Gorged on my leg with glee
Not yet ...
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Crossword quest? Crossword quest
It's been some time since I found the "Two brothers" server. They were quite prominent indie-game-devs back when people programmed on flash. Now the only sign of them is this preview on the long-...
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Anagram fills all the blanks
Continuing with the theme " Same word fills all the blanks" here is a riddle where the anagrams of ONE WORD fill all the blanks.
One concession: Apostrophe allowed.
NO using Anagram Solver or any ...
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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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What Masyu do with the antique clock?
Anagram is needed, and it will answer: What Masyu do with the antique clock?
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A Salute to Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Day (which happens to be March 21st - go figure), I have crafted a puzzle which I hope will do a small bit of justice to this day.
Carefully hidden in the four sections ...
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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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Some of our Professors are Missing
It has emerged that four members of the mathematics department at Farthingbottom School have been working on a top-secret code-breaker for the government.
Unfortunately for them (and the school) ...
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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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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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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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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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What does my girlfriend want me to buy for her?
I'm obviously dating up, because I can't figure out what my girlfriend wants me to buy her for Christmas. When I asked her what she wanted, she gave me the three puzzles below. The only hint she gave ...
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