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.

I fail to see how number the final and initial letters by value will help anything..anyone?
Counting the number of extra or 'wasted' letters as fwaff suggested seems helpful, though.
What would be most useful is a list of all possible words that contain each letter combination. I miss resources such as now-extinct concordance.com, where you could type in twelve??? and get all the words that contain those letters and three unknown letters, etc. I'm working on a PHP script to implement the lists Charlie cited.
That's all for now..nothing useful.
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Posted by DJ on 2003-03-20 07:08:50