Air Vent Rearangements
Beyond the shuffling of architectural air ducts, if you have the tenacity to rearrange the letters of this post’s title by hand you may have the good fortune of discovering the hidden words – INTERNET ANAGRAM SERVER – but it would be much easier if you simply went to the Internet Anagram Server at www.wordsmith.org/anagram and let the interweb do the work for you. It’s a great tool to test seemingly nonsensical strings of words in a puzzle, hiding your own clues in rearranged letters or simply discovering that GATOR PEED IN ONE CORRAL is an anagram for your full name – well at least mine.
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My name is an anagram of ENCORE PRIEST and SPINE ERECTOR. Now you know.
Here is a variation on an anagram:
ANAQUOTES
This type of word puzzle is a featured regularly in “The Enigma”, the NPL’s monthly puzzle book. It is generally a thoughtful, witty or downright funny quote.
HOW TO PLAY: A quotation is divided into trigrams, which are presented in alphabetical order. A leftover letter or bigram goes at the end, not alphabetically. All words and punctuation are shown in the enumeration, with capitalization indicated by *, as in this example:
EXAMPLE:
(4 10 2 6 3 3’1 5 12 6 3 3’1 4 3 6 3 3’1 4. 5* 6*)
adf ali alk can ein ewh ewh for gpe kjo kza ntt ntw oca oca opl opl peo ple ppa ran rit roc smi spe ter tre urn vie who win
Solvers arrange the trigrams, using the given word lengths, to find the quotation and author, whose name is usually included after the quotation. In the example:
Answer: Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. Frank Zappa
So, using the example, here is an anaquote to try your hand at:
THE PUZZLE:
“Energized” Anaquote
(*9 *5 8, 7 4 7.)
arg bat bun dch ene edw ith nya rgi rre ste ter zer y
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That’s pretty neat, Harper117! I think it’s worthy of becoming a Post on this site instead of just a Comment …
Why, that would make me… Narc Anon Libeller!
…or of course, Cornball Near Line
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