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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
Twelve words:
a nearsighted ant sergeant negates an agent, denigrates estranged straightened gnat agents
a
an
ant
gnat
agent
agents
negates
sergeant
estranged
denigrates
nearsighted
straightened
An ...
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Letter Police to the Rescue
Final Report
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
The gang members are ...
The pet word ...
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
16 Words (Internationalize)
Sentence
Explanation:
I can assert with reasonable certainty that no longer chain exists (according to the dictionary that I am using to generate this). There are a ...
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Anagram’s all over this place
He is from
My prefix is anagram
My infix is anagram
My suffix is anagram
My prefix prefix is a horned animal
My prefix infix is an enlightened animal
My prefix suffix is a worn down ...
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I'm quite famous nowadays, mostly because of my owner
Are you:
An anagram that sharpens your imagination
An anagram that don't ask for your permission
An anagram that is not very original
An anagram that is not very important
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Words that are anagrams of themselves
Can you think of a 6+ letter word that is an anagram of itself?
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Words that are anagrams of themselves
For a word to be self-anagrammable, ...
"Obviously the number of letters will always have to be even". That's not true:
As usual with such questions top hits are found by scouring huge word lists. A ...
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My Anagram is Noble
It is:
Me, I am what you do when you don't want to do something,
My anagram is noble,
My other anagram is necessary for life,
My homophone is not getting any bigger,
My homophone's anagram is ...
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Anagram holiday
Given the title, I'm gonna go with ...
Which anagrams to 5 words that (a) start with the different letters of the base word, and (b) are synonyms of words of your sentence.
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
Nikola Tesla, decrepit in old age, aggrieved by ailments, but still doing his experiments causing filaments (as in a light bulb) to explode.
A lamest Tesla sat at last - laments ailments, ...
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How to solve 5-10 letter anagrams (without a computer or electronics)?
Look for patterns, such as ing, tion, re/er, ...
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The hardest crossword you'll do today!
Finished crossword
No googling is required because
The final message is
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
Thirteen words:
13 Universalists
12 Universalist
11 Antiviruses
10 Intrusives
9 Intrusive
8 Inviters
7 Inverts
6 Strive
5 Rivet
4 Tire
3 Tie
2 It
1 I
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Theorists sure want true answers to this!
They are all
I’m guessing this means that the
The
Then
And the title:
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Fully-Firstable Anagram Sets
Didn't know this stack community existed, found it by chance when this thread came up in my feed, and I do love puzzles so I'm joining. Taking a shot at this one with this entry, one of my words is ...
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
Fourteen words:
"Presentational toenail replantations entail senatorial alterations rationale", leant a relation, late, at alternations tea.
a
at
tea
late
leant
entail
toenail
relation
...
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Anagrams: From Food to Food
Here are three pretty decent ones to take you up to five:
These are pushing it a bit:
And I think these are clearly impermissible:
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Longest sentence where all words are anagrams of each other
Setal teals steal least-stale slate-stela Tesla tales.
9 words
"Bristly birds steal the least stale tales of Tesla that are written on a slate stela (stone slab)."
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The King's new dress
The suit should have a lot of folds
Contain a lot of metal discs
Please color it by using paint
Then decorate with flower leaves
And please adhere a crown with tape
Five items was I missing ...
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Words that are anagrams of themselves
There is a Wikipedia article concerning the longest word in English. The longest word there is ...
Unfortunately all words from the table in the Wikipedia article with lengths between 182 and 27 don'...
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The first Density™ Puzzle!
The dots in between the squares...
These can be interpreted
There are also some other ways to extract similar arrangements of letters:
The data collected:
The next step needed heavy hinting for ...
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Growing anagrams - What is the longest possible list forming a sentence?
12 in ascending order of length
I, in tin unit, unite minute pinetum, tumpline, penultima; manipulate planetarium planetariums
I, in a metal shed, combine a very small coniferous arboretum, a load-...
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A Letter: The Archenemy
Are you and your archenemy:
Did you miss me? I hope you are alright.
And your closest person. What is he doing? Does he get any patients now?:
I also hope your elder girlfriend Nerie is fine.:
I ...
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A Page of Puzzling
The solution is
The crossword was first solved by @NeilW, and @Sconibulus solved the alphametic and the maze (go upvote them!).
For the Sudoku:
For the Anagram:
For the Logic puzzle:
Back to the ...
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Anagrams: From Food to Food
This is a surprisingly hard task. I managed to find just three so far.
1.
2.
3.
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Complaint at the PSE lounge
The
Needs to be upgraded!
Quick explanation of how to solve (lots of pictures for step by step solutions):
Solution to the nonogram:
Steps:
1:
2:
3:
The riddle:
Now
Solving the new sudoku:
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