Air Vent Rearangements

Beyond the shuffling of architectural air ducts, if you have the tenacity to rearrange the letters of this post’s title by hand you may have the good fortune of discovering the hidden words – INTERNET ANAGRAM SERVER – but it would be much easier if you simply went to the Internet Anagram Server at www.wordsmith.org/anagram and let the interweb do the work for you. It’s a great tool to test seemingly nonsensical strings of words in a puzzle, hiding your own clues in rearranged letters or simply discovering that GATOR PEED IN ONE CORRAL is an anagram for your full name – well at least mine.

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Who I Am ePeterso2I’m Eric Peterson, and my email address is epeterso2@puzzlehead.org. I’m a software engineer who lives in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ve enjoyed solving puzzles for years, and a few years ago I began constructing puzzles of my own. If you’re ever in Broward County and would like to get together some time, please send me a note by email and let me know. I love the opportunity to meet with other puzzleheads, especially if it involves lunch. Puzzle Testing I believe that the best way to make a puzzle even better is to ask someone else to solve it. You learn so much about how people think, how people approach your puzzle, pitfalls they may encounter, and outright errors in your construction by having someone else try it before you unleash it upon the world. If you’re a puzzle constructor, I would be honored to test your puzzle for you. Send me email with your puzzle or a link to it, and I’ll try solving it, as long as I have time available to do so. I’m a busy guy, so my time is limited … but I’m always open to a challenge. My Public Profiles * My Linked In profile * My Geocaching.com profile * My FloridaCaching.com profile Puzzles I’ve Written * Geocaching puzzles Puzzles I’ve Solved * Geocaching puzzles (solved and found) What Happened to ePeterso1? ePeterso1 was a horrible experiment gone wrong that had to be hunted down and killed before he claimed the lives of any more innocent victims. Most of the bugs that caused ePeterso1 to go haywire have been corectted in ePeterso2.

4 thoughts on “Air Vent Rearangements”

  2. Here is a variation on an anagram:
    ANAQUOTES

    This type of word puzzle is a featured regularly in “The Enigma”, the NPL’s monthly puzzle book. It is generally a thoughtful, witty or downright funny quote.

    HOW TO PLAY: A quotation is divided into trigrams, which are presented in alphabetical order. A leftover letter or bigram goes at the end, not alphabetically. All words and punctuation are shown in the enumeration, with capitalization indicated by *, as in this example:

    EXAMPLE:
    (4 10 2 6 3 3’1 5 12 6 3 3’1 4 3 6 3 3’1 4. 5* 6*)

    adf ali alk can ein ewh ewh for gpe kjo kza ntt ntw oca oca opl opl peo ple ppa ran rit roc smi spe ter tre urn vie who win

    Solvers arrange the trigrams, using the given word lengths, to find the quotation and author, whose name is usually included after the quotation. In the example:

    Answer: Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. Frank Zappa

    So, using the example, here is an anaquote to try your hand at:

    THE PUZZLE:

    “Energized” Anaquote

    (*9 *5 8, 7 4 7.)

    arg bat bun dch ene edw ith nya rgi rre ste ter zer y

    Answer: Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.

  4. Why, that would make me… Narc Anon Libeller!

    …or of course, Cornball Near Line

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