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.

1. JOINER
2. KOTWAL (Midieval Indian leader of a Kot or fort)
3. BERTHED
4. FORUM
5. VERIFY
6. UNISEX
7. AVENGES
8. QUETHING (declaring or saying [pp. of quoth])
9. PENNI (a former Finland monetary unit; 1/100 markka)
10. ZENITH
11. NOVELESE (a style characteristic of bad novels)
12. WAVELET
13. ORTHOGENETIC (of a hypothesis that culture evolves in a linear manner)

Edited on May 11, 2015, 10:39 am

Posted by Dej Mar on 2015-05-11 08:35:12