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29 December 2009

Is it time for more nearly-impossible anagram chain puzzles?[More:]Well, ready or not, here they are.

Here's a recap of the rules from last time:

I. Each list of 3, 4, or 5 words below is a single puzzle of linked anagrams.

II. Each word in the list will donate two letters to the word below it and receive two letters from the word above it (circularly, so the last word on the list donates two letters to the first word.)

III. If the donated & received letters have been chosen wisely, then the results can be anagrammed back into another list of seven-letter words.

IV. Furthermore, the letters that were moved between words can be anagrammed into one additional mystery word - for this batch, each one is to yield a fruit or a vegetable. That can be a helpful hint.

Example puzzle:
1. clearer
2. shuteye
3. clunker
4. plumbed

Solution:
1. embrace (clearer -lr +bm)
2. shelter (shuteye -uy +lr)
3. unlucky (clunker -er +uy)
4. prelude (plumbed -bm +er)

The donated letters bm lr uy er unscramble to mulberry. Got it?
And here are the actual puzzles. Bon chance!

A1. stopped
A2. artisan
A3. rightly

B1. spurned
B2. octopus
B3. forties

C1. largest
C2. heroine
C3. valiant

D1. bracing
D2. palette
D3. gametes
D4. collate

E1. keyring
E2. endorse
E3. crumbly
E4. covered
E5. buoyant
posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 08:00
you have got to be kidding me.
posted by desjardins 29 December | 09:40
It took me four tries to get the right password for my email this morning - I don't think my brain is up for any more thinking until after lunch.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 29 December | 10:19
"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother Me"
posted by octothorpe 29 December | 10:20
Okay, I think I've got the first two:

Rightly or wrongly, when the artisan lowered her prices, people stopped buying.

Even though he bought me a couple forties, I still spurned the octopus.
posted by box 29 December | 10:53
I was hoping the first fruit was 'papaya', but I'd need another 'a'. And 'orange' would mean losing all the vowels in the first word, . . .
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 11:34
(I always arrange these so that the two donated letters are entirely different from the two received letters at each step - no word can receive a letter that it's also donating. That makes it practically impossible to design a puzzle with a 6-letter word like papaya or even carrot that has repeated letters.)
posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 11:43
I knew there would have to be an orange somewhere!

sealant
herring
violate

for group C. With orange!
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 11:51
Group B with turnip:

dispute
consort
profuse
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 12:24
D with an eggplant:

caliber
elegant
catalog
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 12:58
You are AMAZING.
posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 13:04
E is for Blackberry

bearing
donkeys
mercury
beloved
country
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 13:36
Creating these is what's really amazing.
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 13:37
Wow. All I managed was to copy the puzzle down onto some scrap paper.
posted by typewriter 29 December | 13:37
Aw, mutual admiration society! Creating them isn't too terribly hard. It would be better if I could find a way to make the original word lists more thematic somehow, but there are enough constraints that I haven't been able to manage that yet.
posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 13:40
I got the A group but I feel someone else should have a chance at it.
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 14:16
Here's one for you, which has an additional strange
property that is either a feature or a bug, I can't decide which.

rereads
cognate
hayseed
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 15:07
Woof! That is a peculiar one.

hayseed
grantor
decease

Yielding: cherry
posted by Wolfdog 29 December | 21:42
Great!

Maybe we need to get our own blog now.
posted by Obscure Reference 29 December | 22:44
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