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Word Scramble!
Oh. The game I was thinking of is that one you see with the circles for letters on the comics pages of newspapers. It's a jumbled word that you have to rearrange into its correct form. What's THAT game called?
e.g.
GAUGNEAL = ?
e.g.
GAUGNEAL = ?
We can certainly play it that way, NE! I just had to share my George W. Bush anagram . . . and I'm not sure there's a particular name for the game . . .
GAUGNEAL = LANGUAGE
TVAANOIC = ?
GAUGNEAL = LANGUAGE
TVAANOIC = ?
Hmnnn. That one's not easy. I thought INACTIVE, but O, no, that's incorrect...
Little help here, people?
Little help here, people?
O'Vatican-- is that like O'Canada?
Vain Taco-- does he look in the mirrow often?
Hint for my anagram- we all need one :)
Vain Taco-- does he look in the mirrow often?
Hint for my anagram- we all need one :)
Yes, yes, yes! VACATION! And it looks like we do indeed need one if not two.
Hi Meridee....welcome! It is often called Word Jumble...mostly by teachers who are trying to simplify for young minds!! Of course, the 'anatomically correct' term is anagram.
Very good, Debbie! Reminds me of the Bush/Gore debacle. Chads, hanging chads, pregnant chads . . .
Oops! Just a tad Americentric of me, eh?
Song title, 2 words
SBUELEISK = ?
SBUELEISK = ?
"Blue Skies, Nothing but Blue Skies..." That's all I know. You don't want to hear me sing.
Book Title:
USHONWIGIBORE
Book Title:
USHONWIGIBORE
"Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on"
Better than rain right now :)
O NE, NE! wherefore art thou NE?
We are stumped, we need a clue
But NE, NE where are you?
Perhaps running in a 5K or listening to the Saw-x
Or dreaming of the Maine camp?
Reading a good book out on the porch?
Make sure you wear sunscreen so you don't scorch.
Shakespeare I am not! :)
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on"
Better than rain right now :)
O NE, NE! wherefore art thou NE?
We are stumped, we need a clue
But NE, NE where are you?
Perhaps running in a 5K or listening to the Saw-x
Or dreaming of the Maine camp?
Reading a good book out on the porch?
Make sure you wear sunscreen so you don't scorch.
Shakespeare I am not! :)
Oh yes, I changed the name of the thread so as to include both things that are going on here. I never want to be accused of being non-all-inclusive :)
hahahahahahaha! Thank you for the much needed laugh, Donna!
NE!!!!!! This is driving me nuts and now I am WASTING TIME!!!! I brown shoe u? Shrub? Wishbone? Bush/Gore? I brush wine gooi? Have mercy!
TENACIOUS?!?!
NE, you left quite a conundrum. Will you put us out of our misery and tell us the title of the book?
NE, you left quite a conundrum. Will you put us out of our misery and tell us the title of the book?
Oops. I forgot I even left a Word Jumble here. What's worse -- I forgot what the book was. (Um, can I have a minute... or hour... or a few days to solve my own problem?)
Anagrammer
--------Peter Pereira
If you believe in the magic of language,
then Elvis really Lives
and Princess Diana fortold I end as car spin.
If you believe the letters themselves
contain a power within them,
then you understand
what makes outside tedious,
how desperation becomes a rope ends it.
The circular log that allows senator to become treason
and treason to become atoners.
That eleven plus two is twelve plus one,
and an admirer is also married
That if you could just rearrange things the right way
you'd find your true life,
the right path, the answer to your questions:
you'd understand how the Titanic
turns into that ice tin
and debit card becomes bad credit.
How listen is the same as silent,
and not one letter separates stained from sainted.
--------Peter Pereira
If you believe in the magic of language,
then Elvis really Lives
and Princess Diana fortold I end as car spin.
If you believe the letters themselves
contain a power within them,
then you understand
what makes outside tedious,
how desperation becomes a rope ends it.
The circular log that allows senator to become treason
and treason to become atoners.
That eleven plus two is twelve plus one,
and an admirer is also married
That if you could just rearrange things the right way
you'd find your true life,
the right path, the answer to your questions:
you'd understand how the Titanic
turns into that ice tin
and debit card becomes bad credit.
How listen is the same as silent,
and not one letter separates stained from sainted.
Here's a seasonal word scramble for you (uh, I mean a Northern hemisphere seasonal one!):
Hint: two words
EMITPENMECIA
Hint: two words
EMITPENMECIA
Mincemeat Pie?
Something you might look for in a novel:
IVUMEDRILETISI
Something you might look for in a novel:
IVUMEDRILETISI
Eyre (comma Jane?) is correct! And Debbie, I hope it's the meat-free variety your mom bakes. I'm a big fan of raisins, apples, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.!
Hmn. Something in a novel. One word. Why aren't we literary types cracking this sooner? With a V in it, yet....
Uh...
Um....
Hmn....
Hmn. Something in a novel. One word. Why aren't we literary types cracking this sooner? With a V in it, yet....
Uh...
Um....
Hmn....
I thought it might end in an 'ism'...hope you are right NE sio I can stop worrying about it!!
And of course they are meat free! Add a dash of brandy to all the dried fruits and spices though :-)
And of course they are meat free! Add a dash of brandy to all the dried fruits and spices though :-)
Correct! It is verisimilitude.
Like I said. EASY. (Or shall I change the rating to INTERMEDIATE?) Hint: vegetarian fare (to middling).
eggplant????? no, not enough n's ... hmmmm
An eggs-tra "n" always comes in handy :) I'll save it for a rainy day--








Ok-- this started with Debbie in the E,D&J thread. Just a reminder: an anagram is a word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters: “Angel” is an anagram of “glean.”
So have at it!