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Thirteen Words (Posted on 2003-03-19) Difficulty: 5 of 5
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.

See The Solution Submitted by Charlie    
Rating: 3.6000 (5 votes)

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re(3): First steps - 13, 11 | Comment 4 of 14 |
(In reply to re(2): First steps - 13 by Gamer)

The problem here is to use small words that minimise the letters used. When written out the numbers 1...13 contain 59 letters, which means we can only 'waste' 34.

13 = Threatening wastes 3 (A,G,N)
11 = Leavened wastes 2 (A,D)

Using these two the alphabet total is now 43.

I think 12 is the next challenge....

  Posted by fwaff on 2003-03-20 01:17:10

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