List 13 words such that the first contains an anagram of the word ONE, the second contains an anagram of the word TWO, etc. The anagrammed words cannot be directly in the containing word, so that while "ounce", "sonnet" and "enough" are good for "one"; "gone" and "toner" are not.

Each letter of the alphabet is to be used once as either a first or last letter in one of the thirteen words

Try to use common short words. There's at least one solution with a total of 93 letters.

Since i'm pretty sure we'll have to solve this as a group(look at the difficulty) i have a somewhat primitive yet logical idea of how to solve it first lets give every letter a value. a=1, b=2, c=3....z=26. Therefore a+b+c...+z=351. Now every anagramed word will have a avalue based on fist letter+ last letter so the next thing we have to do is find anagrams of one throught thirteen and hope fully through trial and error get the value of 351. Another thing we should do is try to find some anagrams of words like thirteen first since they'll be hardest.

Posted by Alan on 2003-03-19 15:58:38