The table is composed of five-letter words reading downwards.
Retain the cyclic order of the letters but using the wraparound process
(ie, 1,2,3,4,5 → 2,3,4,5,1 or → 5,1,2,3,4) replace each given word with
an anagram (which is a valid word), and so determine a short message. |
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M
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Note: Some words in the table as well as in the solution will not be in common usage.
Does "retain the cyclic order of the letters" and "replace each given word with an anagram" mean that there is no horizontal wrapping, but only vertical wrapping? May/must one rearrange each column independently of the others?
Are the rotations limited to just one movement in either direction? (You state that 12345 becomes either 23451 or 51234 -- you write "ie" , not "e.g."). However you state that each column must be an anagram of the original column and be a (perhaps uncommon) world. This seems to imply any permutation of a column's letters, which is broader than the "wraparound" process.
Perhaps longtime puzzlers have encountered this format in some of your earlier puzzles, but I do not find it clear.
Clarification, please
