Questions tagged [anagram]
An anagram rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.
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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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Salt, pepper, herbs and spices
This puzzle is dedicated to an avid violinist.
Who is the violinist?
Hint:
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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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Grammy Winners Grading
Prologue.
I am bored. I have divided the Grammy winners in the past few years into the following tiers, according to a specific and objective criterion. How did I categorise them?
The ...
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Starring Samurais - Several Scribbled Short Stories
Flipping through my notebook, I found several stories I scribbled. What do they mean?
First one
Samurai nagging, "Elixir agent, typewriter iamb, ultraviolet emitters..."
Second one
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An Ode Full'a Herrin's
Dear smart friend,
How witty sire alway look!
Here's ag'in an ol' ode,
For you, fiend, a puzzler's game!
Demeanour means imp's English name introduction.
Small film halves film ...
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Dear Fellow PSE Users,
This puzzle is dedicated to all of you!
Instructions
There are 8 anagram questions below.
In each question, you can rearrange the letters to find an answer, which is 2 English words that describe a ...
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Worn out and about
Will wrote I'm worn out,
and I'm not worn out, [1]
Like to a thirsty bed,
Worn, worn out of bed,
Worn to repair a bed.
[1] First word of riddle also famously wrote I'm not worn out - OP ...
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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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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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Twisted Vivaldi
There are 5 riddles. Each riddle will lead to a one word clue for the final answer. Your job is to guess the final answer. The problem is, each riddle has a twist:
1 of them is a red herring.
1 of ...
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Is there a name for this kind of anagram?
I was thinking about anagrams and I was wondering if there was a name for anagrams that keep the relative order of the letters, but instead rearranges them by moving the starting point of the word and ...
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Twelve past eleven at the police station
An immeasurably large kudos to this puzzle, which was the inspiration for this one.
All of the blanks in the following passage may be filled with words. Each of the seven blanks contains one distinct ...
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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
– Have you ...
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Who Can Help Retag This?
Gestures to stop Jacks' paving stones
Oh! Tiny reformation chaos at data transmission
Occasion (the first) to initiate moderator election
Circular execution of queer joshes up with ...
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A word challenge/competition! (ft. Categorically Deceiving words) [closed]
Here are the rules:
A Categorically Deceiving word is one whose letters can be mixed around to form a new word which belongs to the same category as the original (e.g. red and green belong to the ...
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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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The Binomial Elks Club
The Binomial Elks Club
For many months, Bill Gates had heard whispers of an exclusive club for the super rich, but when pressed, no one would provide any details. The secrecy surrounding the club ...
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Back to the nineties!
I've left the world before the 90's,
But I'm still many a ninety.
Inside me there's an instant,
I've proposed many a constant.
My universe is not stable,
But I'm still there at the table.
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Anagram of an anagram
My anagram's anagram is a furious lady.
My anagram's anagram is a comic military force.
My anagram's anagram is to sell weapons to a flamboyant guy.
What are we anagramming?
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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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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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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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Anagram Within an Anagram!
The second poem is an anagram of the first poem. Both poems are separated by "~" to indicate they are both anagrams of each other.
The aim of all is but to nurse the life
With honour, wealth, and ...
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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 mountain riddle
In school, I'm mostly concerned with geometry. However, both in Europe and in Asia I may see my rearrangements from above.
What am I?
--- EDIT ---
The question has been edited in its tags.
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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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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 ...
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Bold, vivid family
I remember organising the colours of the rainbow in columns. In the way that I did, I could create the word RAINBOW from certain letters in each word, indicated by the columns they were each placed in....
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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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The Anagrammy… what?
Hello, did you hear about the Anagrammy Contest? No, wait — the anagrammy competition... or the anagrammy tournament? Look, I don't remember what it's called, exactly. Great, isn't it? >:(
It ...
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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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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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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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Where in the world?
(This is not a part of the puzzle. I am posting this here for two reasons: first, I've already spent ~8 hours trying to solve this. Second, I find it quite interesting and want to share.)
The puzzle ...
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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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Which logo does this word represent?
Puzzle 1
Which logo does the word dsPlinS represent?
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I haven't posted in a while, but I'm back on track, baby! And to celebrate my coming back, whoever solves this would earn a $...
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Errors and Warnings in clues
I want to use "Error" and "Warning" as anagram indicators, like this:
Run Time Error (4) --- EMIT
Error: Please get a rest (6) --- ASLEEP (not sure yet)
Error 106E: Something Wrong (4) --- VICE ...
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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 ...
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A unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds? Inexorably!
With great economy and without superfluous, exaggerated, flowery speech, please elucidate how to determine clearly and precisely what the beautiful, ornate, stupendous Word Of The Day is.
My extreme ...
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Garden and Desert
Deals with me rarely are regretted.
I assure you, when last becomes first and the first last He'll be
Rejected.
Adam Rejoiced in my newer locations --
Dancing about again and again as ...
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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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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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A prophet denies his existence
What is my anagram - A prophet denies his existence?
Clue:
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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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Letter Grid 5x5 number 1
In this grid there are five mixed-up words, shuffled only vertically. Can you find them all?
suvet
wtetl
hport
soaee
dhuse
For example, if the words were egg, sky and pie, we might see:
eke
sig
pgy
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Puzzle in a Newspaper
The newspaper I got this morning was a little off, to say the least.
The main headline proudly read:
Horse squeals eight times, dubbed "octsqueal"
Well, I decided to ignore that, and head over ...
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Anagrams: From Cheese to Sneeze [closed]
Anagram time!
Similar to Anagrams: From Food to Food, but this time its From Cheese to Sneeze, or (almost) Anything You Please.
Brief:
You must turn the names of cheeses into common nouns using ...
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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 ...
