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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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System | Comment 9 of 14 |
Yes bryan does have a good way of doing it to. The number system was merely there to make it piece together easily at the end, but then there are some flaws in the system. Anyways i decied to start up a basic list for the solution and fill in the missing blanks. 13 Unthreatening. 12. 11. 10. zenith 9.quarantine 6.x-section 4.justificatory 2.tow(who would've thought of this one?)1.voraciousness
I've tried to eliminate the hard parts. I've gotten rid of the following letters E G H J N Q S T U V W X Y Z and the following numbers Thirteen ten nine six four two(which was surprisingly hard) One
  Posted by Alan on 2003-03-20 12:00:18
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