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An anagram rearranges the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, while using all the original letters exactly once. The original word or phrase is called the subject of the anagram.

For example:

William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller

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Anagrams: From Food to Food

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 single word food. We managed to find two: LEMON…
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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 ever ______ James? One of my favourites, I must say. – I…
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Three quotes, thirteen anagrams

"My flight from ___ just arrived at Heathrow. The connecting flight leaves in two hours. I will arrive at ___ Terminal 1. I'm going to take a taxi to my hotel if ___ not available at that hour. That said, I'm sure public transportation in Japan is…
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Are we there yet?

Quotations, but melt? Have you found the answer yet?
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How to solve 5-10 letter anagrams (without a computer or electronics)?

How can I solve 5-10 letter anagrams without a computer or electronics? I was playing the Word Scramble category in the game Quiz Up and found it complicated, only in some parts. At home, I used an anagram solver, but elsewhere my friends have aced…
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Rearranged recounting stirs the pot

My friend always speaks in anagrams (he's very clever). He was describing a dispute that tore his family apart: Side sea we toast, "Winter moon!" Shortly after that, I terminated my friendship with him. What happened? Show your cleverness by…
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Anagram chains - What is the common property in each?

This puzzle is about solving anagram-chains. To start, let's first define what an anagram-chain is: An anagram-chain consists of multiple anagrams stitched together into a long letter-list. Each anagram of the chain (except the last) partly…
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An Anagram Puzzle!

Find the hidden message. ————————————————————————————-———- | A | R | G | A | N | D | A | M | | A | W | K | C | A | E | B | R | | T | D | E | V | L | S | O | H | | S | U | J | U | O | S | Y | T | | A | R | G | N | O | ! | C | T | | S | E |…
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Find the word in the grid

Find a ten letter word that can be formed by using the center letter twice and every other letter only once (it can be in any order, it doesn't have to snake around the grid). F N H D E A O R B Try another one: T Y L M A E R N I And the last…
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"What's an engineer's favorite music to listen to?"

The answer is within the following scrambled letters, but there is also a letter missing: R-O-M-T-A-H-H-? I've been at this for hours and I cannot come up with anything whatsoever. I strongly believe the scrambled letters equate to two words, not…
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Word Jumble - 15 Letters

I came across a question in facebook, which asked to solve this word jumble! I wasted nearly 3 days, still couldn't get over it. 1st row provides the choices, and with this we have to fill the second row.
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What do these anagrams have in common? #2

Agar man Red Lid Ripcords Crow Cysts I perch Libya Oils Tv What do these anagrams have in common? Hopefully this one is a little harder!
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What am I buying?

I'm shopping for an item with the following shopping list: Try taco, (a creek in Oregon) [Make it more +3X hsv], those cycles. Energetic ball auto-caller EWNICW XLJW & XEIXJWE DEIN TIYE EWAYKR What one item am I looking for?
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I invited them and no one came

My colleague told me this morning with frustration: To 200 friends I sent invitations to my birthday party, and not one person came. The last paragraph of the invitation had a mysterious sentence which read, ″Renty grache sound tahar dolls″ . What…
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Which celebrity's name is hidden in the above letters?

D,X,F,L,H,A,T,E,E Which celebrity's name is hidden in the above letters? Hint 1: It's neither last name nor middle name. Hint 2: It ranges between 5 to 8 letters, but not less or more.
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