This thread will be devoted to word games.

The first challenge involves anagrams, which are words that can be rearranged to form other words. Example: GOD can be rearranged to read as DOG. This works in phrases, as well. MARGARET THATCHER can be rearranged to read as THE GREAT CHARMER.

Note: There may be more than one possible answer, and in this particular list, I am looking for single words and not phrases.

1. altitude =
2. backward =
3. cheating =
4. conserve =
5. finished =
6. generate =
7. imprints =
8. organist =
9. parental =
10. refining =
11. sunlight
12. tarragon =
13. triangle =
14. ultimate =

Please feel free to add your own word challenges in this thread, as well.

Here's what I've got so far. I'll do the rest later...

1. altitude = latitude
2. backward =
3. cheating = teaching
4. conserve = converse
5. finished =
6. generate =
7. imprints = misprint
8. organist =
9. parental =
10. refining =
11. sunlight =
12. tarragon =
13. triangle = altering, alerting
14. ultimate = mutilate

2. Backward = drawback.

These are hard!

Let me repeat a challenge I left on the Brain Teasers thread some time ago. I'm thinking of the full name (first and last name) of an old-time Hollywood actor. The full name alternates consonants and vowels, and it contains each of the vowels A, E, I, O, and U exactly once each. Those of you who know me should know that this person appeared in the type of films I like. Who is it?

I'll even give you the pattern of the name.

FIRST NAME: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel.

LAST NAME: Consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel.

parental=prenatal

Rudy Malone?

Bela Lugosi

Cyan is quite correct, of course.

Note that "Rudy Malone" contains a Y instead of an I. Close, but no cigar!

I meany Rudi Malone who I have never heard of, I mean who starred in Citi Lyghts the 1934 masterpiece . . .

06. generate = teenager
08. organist = roasting
10. refining = infringe
11. sunlight = hustling
12. tarragon = arrogant


Who knows 05. finished ?

fiendish

Great job, Mike and Eeyore!

I'm thinking of a famous science fiction author. All the letters of the author's first name can be found in the author's last name, in the same order (but not all together.)

(EXAMPLE: JOE JOnEs)

Who is this author?

Isaac Asimov. no
Ray Bradbury

Absolutely correct!

since you asked...

finished = fiendish

OOPS didn't see that it was already answered

***********POLITICS ANAGRAMS************


senator =
represent =
debates =
domestic =
recalls =
defend =
general =
nation =
elections =
reform =
supreme =
despot =
emperors =
interests =
legislator =


BONUS (more difficult words)
politics =
service =
citizen =

KM look up four spots from your post.

represent = presenter
recalls = callers
general = enlarge
elections = selection
reform = former
despot = posted

debates = bestead
emperors = premorse
interests = resistent
defend = fended
nation = anoint
supreme = presume

citizen = zincite

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What's left:
senator
domestic
legislator

politics
service

senator = atoners (that seems appropriate)

domestic = demotics
legislator = allegorist
politics = ???
service = scrieve

VS - for senator, I was thinking treason (ah what better a pair?) - but atoners works of course!

and sorry Wertz and everyone, I mistakenly included politics even though the only words that can be made from it are medical terms. Meant to slash that from the list

psilotic is the word, btw...bet you don't hear that one everyday, eh? the other is a medical term that is probably NOT approriate for AD so I'll just let you look it up using an anagram maker if you really need to know...

Good job, everyone!

I wish to propose a game of Word Golf, invented by no less than Lewis Carroll. You start with two words which have the same number of letters. By changing one letter at a time, you change the first word into the second word. At each step of the game, the resulting new word must be a real word in the English language. Here is an extremely simple example:

Change DOG to CAT in three steps:

DOG
COG
COT
CAT


Most games of Word Golf are not so simple. Here is the shortest way I have found to change BUSH to GORE, in six steps:

BUSH
LUSH
LUST
LOST
LOSE
LORE
GORE

Can you find a shorter way?

The challenge: Change BUSH to DEAN (or the other way around.) I have found a way to do this in seven steps. Can you find a shorter way?

BUSH
BUST
BEST
BEAT
BEAN
DEAN
Did I do it right?

Perfect! And in only five steps! Nice job!

This should be fairly easy. Try to find the names of famous cities hidden in the sentences listed below.

EXAMPLE: I have been washing tons of clothes today.

ANSWER: I have been WASHING TONs of clothes today.


1. The greatest band in the history of rock and roll is Bon Jovi.

2. When skiing in the Alps, one should wear a suit with a rubber lining and boots filled with fleece.

3. The rain fell on Donald and Alice, so Albert offered them his new umbrella.

4. Is the comet blazing in the sky another omen of disaster?

5. On a sailing ship, the function of a spar is to hold the sail and rigging in place.

6. Batman's enemies include the evil Joker, the mad Riddler, and the seductive Catwoman.

1. Lisbon

2. Berlin

3. London

4. Rome

5. Paris

6. Madrid

100% perfect!

Rearrange the following letters to come up with boys' names.


1. ohjsau

2. hasmot

3. tyanhon

4. vertro

5. uijlna

joshua thomas anthony trevor and julian!!!!


This is fun with words slash numbers... it's actually kinda cheesy

What does six hate seven?

Because 7 8 9. Muaha.

Victoria, I got it...

1) Lisbon
2) Berlin
3) London
4) Rome
5) Paris
5) Madrid



It was far from FAIRLY easy...

((Good job, UGA Boy)))


Here's a musical "fun with words" tester:


1. npik lyfdo

2. csoanjk onbwr

3. elin onyug

4. obb egres

5. mot ttepy

6. tenol onjh

7. ueqne

8. het opiecl

9. obb ydlna

10. aypst inlec


(sorry folks, Britney didn't make the cut)

I'm not much of a music fan, but it looks like:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Jackson Brown
3. Neil Young
4. Bob Seger
5. Tom Petty
6. Elton John
7. Queen
8. The Police
9. Bob Dylan
10. Patsy Cline

Good job, Curmudgeon - 100%!!!

How's about unravelling these movies:


1. lanie

2. a isfh lleacd awdan

3. magraddnoe

4. tsra swra

5. ogod ilwl ugihntn

Looks like:

1. Alien
2. A Fish Called Wanda
3. Armegeddon
4. Star Wars
5. Good Will Hunting

Does anyone remember how to pronounce ghoti?

(Good job, Grendel)


Unravel the following words, then decipher what all these words
are describing.


1. erehs

2. tnrpoecito

3. svaeihde

4. iryteav fo zisse

5. celhsuos

sheer, protection, adhesive, variety of sizes, ouchless. Sounds like a a low-tack, slip-proof condom - or a Band-Aid ™.

((Wertz, your answer was quite sinnocent ))


Unravel these last names, then determine what they have in common.


1. oklp

2. lmfloeri

3. dsmaa

4. rgnadih

5. olgdocei

1. Polk
2. Fillmore
3. Adams
4. Harding
5. Coolidge

U.S. Presidents, of course


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Okay here's my contribution:

Unscramble these words and use the letters in the asterisk positions to form a new word that ties the five words together.


1. errutasy
2. lecturguria
3. cutenodia
4. irontire
5. meccrome

1. _ _ _ _ * _ _ *

2. * _ _ _ _ _ _ * _ _ _

3. * _ _ * _ _ _ _ _

4. _ _ _ * _ _ _ *

5. _ _ _ _ _ * _ _

Bonus word:

Well, obviously, we should say "gh" as in "tough," "o" as in "women," and "ti" as in "function," so the correct way to say "ghoti" is "fish."

1. errutasy = treasury
2. lecturguria = agriculture
3. cutenodia = education
4. irontire = interior
5. meccrome =commerce

1. TreaSurY

2. AgriculTure

3. EduCation

4. intErioR

5. commeRce

Bonus word: atecerrsy = Secretary

My response: All the words in the following sentence have been alphabetized, as it is the simplest method that I know of scrambling letters...

EHT BELMOPR HITW DFGIINN CHSU BELMOPRS AESY OT ELOSV, IS AHTT IT IS CDFFIILTU OT CCNORSTTU EON.

"The problem with finding such problems easy to solve, is that it is difficult to construct one."

Very true words!

Here are some more "hidden city" puzzles. These are all famous world capitals.

1. The reason he is in the hospital is that, right after he ate, he ran a marathon race.

2. Just outside the hotel, a vivid view of the Pacific Ocean dazzled our eyes.

3. On my first day in Africa, I rowed down the Congo River and hiked through the rain forest.

4. I told my husband to quit ogling that young woman in the bikini, but he pretended not to hear me.

5. Well, I'm about through with these puzzles.

1. Teheran (it can also be spelled Tehran)

2. Tel Aviv (Israel)

3.Cairo (Egypt)

4.Quito (Ecuador)

5.Lima (Peru)

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Unscramble these, then figure out what they have in common:

1. clnonli

2. nigk

3. nydknee

4. nnnole

5. rfleiadg

6. cylnkmie

Lincoln

King

Kennedy

Lennon

Garfield

McKinley

All murdered by use of a gun. (I was going to say "assassinated," but I'm not sure if that word can be used about a public figure outside of politics, such as John Lennon.)

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Here's a fairly easy one. I'm thinking of a word that is pluralized by changing one vowel, and also changing the sound of another vowel. What is the word?

Could that word be woman?

Oops! Now I need to generate another puzzle,,,

Wait, woman and women don't have another vowel changing its sound.

although the 'a' changes to an 'e' the 'o' sound stays the same (unless you think the plural should be pronounced 'wimmin' in which case gets some elocution lessons... )

Point of information: In the United States the plural of woman is pronounced "wimmin." Those are a lot of elocution lessons you are suggesting.