I've found in one of the Mensa quizzes a puzzle asking for a 6 letter word that allows creation of 3 valid English words
just by simply permuting the 123456 word
into 426153, 462315 & 623451.
It is not too difficult to solve it, if you wish.
I've tried to find an example that provides more answers, searched 7-letter words, surfed the web and finally got a set of 5 letters allowing 5 permutations.
Prior to giving you the sequences I must admit that:
a. proper names (people or geographical entities) are allowed.
b. plural form is OK -S is one of the letters.
The 5 permutations are:
12345
32451
51243
54123
12435
What are the words and their meanings?
(In reply to
re: I found this by Dej Mar)
Thanks DM for the additional words!
This makes me wonder what's the largest (nicest?) crossword puzzle
that can be made of only 5-letter words using only the AEPRS list while still obeying crossword symmetry. (Further, allowing acronyms, two word answers and dup letters in a word would offer a little more freedom.)
But, perhaps this puzzle would be too forced and joyless.
re(2): I found this
