TheKatesof Shakespeare and of songHave fair and dainty features;But she Istakemy hopes uponExcels those lovely creatures.FromKeatsshetakesher name so dear,She lives onsteaksand honey:She cannotskate, but she can steer,And Madeline has money.
TheKatesof Shakespeare and of songHave fair and dainty features;But she Istakemy hopes uponExcels those lovely creatures.FromKeatsshetakesher name so dear,She lives onsteaksand honey:She cannotskate, but she can steer,And Madeline has money.
TheKatesof Shakespeare and of songHave fair and dainty features;But she Istakemy hopes uponExcels those lovely creatures.FromKeatsshetakesher name so dear,She lives onsteaksand honey:She cannotskate, but she can steer,And Madeline has money.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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The two long words used recently by a politician which can be recast by anagram to form the sentence, “Axiomatic intelligence, or dust”are—
TERMINOLOGICAL INEXACTITUDES.
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My first your bosom friend, or man or maid,Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.My second, sounded double, tells of fate,Or sounded single puts an end to hate.My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.
My first your bosom friend, or man or maid,Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.My second, sounded double, tells of fate,Or sounded single puts an end to hate.My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.
My first your bosom friend, or man or maid,Whom you can trust, secure and unafraid.My second, sounded double, tells of fate,Or sounded single puts an end to hate.My whole a hall’s arched roof, or soft or hard,That lies beyond the gate with ivory barr’d.
is solved byPalate(Até, goddess of fate).
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The sentence “Woman without her man would be helpless” takes on a distinct meaning if the words “without her” are read together, and a comma is placed after “woman.” Thus—“Woman,without herman would be helpless.”
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The short sentences are recast into single wordsthus—
A moment’s cure.The old rocks.Commensurate.Stockholder.Cod is nice.It lures a cat.Coincides.Articulates.
A moment’s cure.The old rocks.
Commensurate.Stockholder.
Cod is nice.It lures a cat.
Coincides.Articulates.
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Theenigma—
Without my head I circulateWith speed and inclination.Without my bait, at anyrate,I still have inclination.Transpose three letters, in unbroken stateI then receive the ashes of the great.
Without my head I circulateWith speed and inclination.Without my bait, at anyrate,I still have inclination.Transpose three letters, in unbroken stateI then receive the ashes of the great.
Without my head I circulateWith speed and inclination.Without my bait, at anyrate,I still have inclination.Transpose three letters, in unbroken stateI then receive the ashes of the great.
is solved byHearth,earth,heart(transposeeattoate).
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Here is a metrical account of the anagram which, with some exaggeration, proclaims that Sims Reeves was often prevented from singing by his delicatethroat—
The audience in wrapt impatience sits;Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses,Strange thatSims Reeves, whose singing everhits,By a mere shift of lettersever misses!
The audience in wrapt impatience sits;Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses,Strange thatSims Reeves, whose singing everhits,By a mere shift of lettersever misses!
The audience in wrapt impatience sits;Comes an excuse, and disappointment hisses,Strange thatSims Reeves, whose singing everhits,By a mere shift of lettersever misses!
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Consuming lust forlucre, now so rife,Likecruelulcermars both love and life.
Consuming lust forlucre, now so rife,Likecruelulcermars both love and life.
Consuming lust forlucre, now so rife,Likecruelulcermars both love and life.
The words in italics have the same letters.
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This is the completedpalindrome—
I maniac lived, a devil Cain am I.
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Thelines—
And as trim bees rise or go,A long aim I’d say, a libel O!
And as trim bees rise or go,A long aim I’d say, a libel O!
And as trim bees rise or go,A long aim I’d say, a libel O!
contain in anagram and in proper order the fruitstamarinds,gooseberries, and the flowersmagnolia,daisy,lobelia.
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These are theanagrams—
Now one old fortTower of London.
Now one old fortTower of London.
Rabid owlWild Boar.
Rabid owlWild Boar.
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Alas, for that forgotten dayWhen chivalry was nourish’d,When none but friars learn’d to pray,And beef and beauty flourish’d;And fraud in kings was held accursed,And falsehood sin was reckon’d,And mighty chargers bore myfirst,And fat monks wore mysecond!Ah, then I carried sword and shieldAnd casque with flaunting feather,And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,In winter and rough weather;And polish’d many a sonnet upTo ladies’ eyes and tresses;And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,And loose my falcon’s jesses!But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam,The mongrel mob grows prouder;And everything is done by steam,And men are kill’d by powder;And now I feel my swift decay,And give unheeded orders;And rot in paltry state awayWith sheriffs and recorders.
Alas, for that forgotten dayWhen chivalry was nourish’d,When none but friars learn’d to pray,And beef and beauty flourish’d;And fraud in kings was held accursed,And falsehood sin was reckon’d,And mighty chargers bore myfirst,And fat monks wore mysecond!Ah, then I carried sword and shieldAnd casque with flaunting feather,And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,In winter and rough weather;And polish’d many a sonnet upTo ladies’ eyes and tresses;And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,And loose my falcon’s jesses!But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam,The mongrel mob grows prouder;And everything is done by steam,And men are kill’d by powder;And now I feel my swift decay,And give unheeded orders;And rot in paltry state awayWith sheriffs and recorders.
Alas, for that forgotten dayWhen chivalry was nourish’d,When none but friars learn’d to pray,And beef and beauty flourish’d;And fraud in kings was held accursed,And falsehood sin was reckon’d,And mighty chargers bore myfirst,And fat monks wore mysecond!
Ah, then I carried sword and shieldAnd casque with flaunting feather,And earn’d my spurs in battle-field,In winter and rough weather;And polish’d many a sonnet upTo ladies’ eyes and tresses;And learn’d to drain my father’s cup,And loose my falcon’s jesses!
But dim is now my grandeur’s gleam,The mongrel mob grows prouder;And everything is done by steam,And men are kill’d by powder;And now I feel my swift decay,And give unheeded orders;And rot in paltry state awayWith sheriffs and recorders.
is solved byKnighthood.
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Myfirstyou oft savagely pierce through and through;Mynextharbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,Should mywhole, from mysecond, step into myfirst!
Myfirstyou oft savagely pierce through and through;Mynextharbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,Should mywhole, from mysecond, step into myfirst!
Myfirstyou oft savagely pierce through and through;Mynextharbours nonsense, and wisdom, and dust;But, oh! what disaster might chance to accrue,Should mywhole, from mysecond, step into myfirst!
is solved byEarwig.
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My whole describes the action of a gale,Decapitation makes an organ play.Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;Again, it tells of what we do not pay.Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.Again behead, and half a string denote;Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;And last of all on music’s notes I float.
My whole describes the action of a gale,Decapitation makes an organ play.Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;Again, it tells of what we do not pay.Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.Again behead, and half a string denote;Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;And last of all on music’s notes I float.
My whole describes the action of a gale,Decapitation makes an organ play.Behead again, it sounds o’er hill and vale;Again, it tells of what we do not pay.Take nothing off, it is an eagle’s sail.Again behead, and half a string denote;Again, and lo! a horse’s head and tail;And last of all on music’s notes I float.
is solved byA’blowing(n-a-g).
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The proverb buried in thesentence—
Society—how her enthusiasts worship at her Juggernaut car. Cases exist here, proving how illogical are these eagle-sighted, place-hunting beings, scoffing at hereditary position, yet striving to get her smile.
is “Where the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together.”
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The answer by anagram to—What should we put on a bird’s tail to catch it without asteel-trap? isSaltpetre.
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Thecharade—
Across myfirst, with flash and roar,The stately vessel glides alone.And mournful on the crowded shoreThere stands an aged crone,Watching mysecond’sparting smile,As he bids farewell to his native isle.Mywholecomes back to other eyes,With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,But dim to her are those bright skies,And sad those joyous hours;For, alas! myfirstis dark and deep,And mysecondcannot hear her weep.
Across myfirst, with flash and roar,The stately vessel glides alone.And mournful on the crowded shoreThere stands an aged crone,Watching mysecond’sparting smile,As he bids farewell to his native isle.Mywholecomes back to other eyes,With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,But dim to her are those bright skies,And sad those joyous hours;For, alas! myfirstis dark and deep,And mysecondcannot hear her weep.
Across myfirst, with flash and roar,The stately vessel glides alone.And mournful on the crowded shoreThere stands an aged crone,Watching mysecond’sparting smile,As he bids farewell to his native isle.Mywholecomes back to other eyes,With beauteous change of fruit and flowers,But dim to her are those bright skies,And sad those joyous hours;For, alas! myfirstis dark and deep,And mysecondcannot hear her weep.
is solved bySeason.
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The sequel to the Arab and his ass runsthus—
When morning dawned, and the tide was out,The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’sprotection,And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,For he had the best donkey in all thatsection.You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,Though the donkey was bravest of all hisrace;He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,And his master has gone to the prophet’sembrace.
When morning dawned, and the tide was out,The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’sprotection,And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,For he had the best donkey in all thatsection.You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,Though the donkey was bravest of all hisrace;He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,And his master has gone to the prophet’sembrace.
When morning dawned, and the tide was out,The pair crossed over ’neath Allah’sprotection,And the Arab was happy beyond a doubt,For he had the best donkey in all thatsection.
You are wrong! They were drowned in crossing over,Though the donkey was bravest of all hisrace;He luxuriates now in perpetual clover,And his master has gone to the prophet’sembrace.
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Asiren,risenonErin’sstrands,Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;He left thereinsin Cupid’s hands,And watched herrinseher tresses;Tresses ofresincoloured gold,Veiling, like any frock,A tail which, as it did unfold,Gave to poor Pat a shock.
Asiren,risenonErin’sstrands,Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;He left thereinsin Cupid’s hands,And watched herrinseher tresses;Tresses ofresincoloured gold,Veiling, like any frock,A tail which, as it did unfold,Gave to poor Pat a shock.
Asiren,risenonErin’sstrands,Caught Pat’s heart in her meshes;He left thereinsin Cupid’s hands,And watched herrinseher tresses;Tresses ofresincoloured gold,Veiling, like any frock,A tail which, as it did unfold,Gave to poor Pat a shock.
The words in italics are spelt with the same letters.
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The answer by anagram to “Where can you be ‘in a stone-pine garden’?” isPontresina, Engadine.
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The words in italics are spelt with the sameletters—
Nowidersympathy was ever shownThan whenweirdnews, from Kingstonwired, was known.
Nowidersympathy was ever shownThan whenweirdnews, from Kingstonwired, was known.
Nowidersympathy was ever shownThan whenweirdnews, from Kingstonwired, was known.
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According to its anagram, the bodily discomfort which follows anague-fitisfatigue.
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This is the adjustment of the tangledsquare—
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The European rivers concealed in the eight anagrams: Set in red robe Henri Le Roi O sell me red pine nerves biter, are Dniester, Ebro, Rhine, Loire, Moselle, Dnieper, Severn, Tiber.
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The palindrome runsthus—
STOP ROSE, I PREFER PIES OR POTS.
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“Your food will cost you more!”
is the political parrot cry which can be evolved by anagramfrom—
O fool! O musty cry! O lurid woe!
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Sir Robert Peel was the statesman from whose name a “terrible poser” is formed by anagram.
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The letters of the sentence, “Yea, a glad sun rose red” can be recast into the well-known proverbDelays are dangerous.
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The question, “Has there been a poet of unusual solemnity?” is answered by “Yes, Milton.”
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The anagramenigma—
No, no, I hardly ever touchThe thing which many love so much,It has a place within these lines,But is taboo where Delia dines.
No, no, I hardly ever touchThe thing which many love so much,It has a place within these lines,But is taboo where Delia dines.
No, no, I hardly ever touchThe thing which many love so much,It has a place within these lines,But is taboo where Delia dines.
is solved byOnion(no, no, I).
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When young Biceps, who had been plucked in Euclid declared that he could teach the examiners how to square a circle, this was his tricky method:—A circle may be aptly described as a “copper” or “Brown.” Having at hand your “copper” (P. C. Brown), when he has caught you on his rounds, proceed to square him in the customary way.
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As Biceps could not tell how to extract a circle from a square, his friend gave him the following solution: “Let the given square be Sloane Square; find the Inner Circle, and take its lines to any point, at any distance from that square, paying the proper fare. That’s the ticket!”
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EveryCretanis said to lie,And steeds thatcanterpant.The gods dranknectar, old and dry,And all men mayrecant.Finally this key extendTake fromen(trance)dtheend.
EveryCretanis said to lie,And steeds thatcanterpant.The gods dranknectar, old and dry,And all men mayrecant.Finally this key extendTake fromen(trance)dtheend.
EveryCretanis said to lie,And steeds thatcanterpant.The gods dranknectar, old and dry,And all men mayrecant.Finally this key extendTake fromen(trance)dtheend.
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Thecharade—
My captivesecond, sulking in myfirst,Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;Bemoan, or as alternative you findMywholethe word that fits his state of mind.For meet enclosure, you can take a scoreOf captiveseconds, first deducting four.
My captivesecond, sulking in myfirst,Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;Bemoan, or as alternative you findMywholethe word that fits his state of mind.For meet enclosure, you can take a scoreOf captiveseconds, first deducting four.
My captivesecond, sulking in myfirst,Might surlily bemoan his fate accurst;Bemoan, or as alternative you findMywholethe word that fits his state of mind.For meet enclosure, you can take a scoreOf captiveseconds, first deducting four.
is solved byDenounce(16 ozs. = 1Pound).
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Thecipher—
THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT;MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.
THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT;MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.
THGLBDWNWSLLLDSTFTHLT;MNFTNRDRNRGTNNTHSPT.
becomes by the addition of E and Oalternately—
The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot;Men often order one, or get one on the spot.
The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot;Men often order one, or get one on the spot.
The “Globe” do we now sell, oldest of the lot;Men often order one, or get one on the spot.
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When his brother put “Tim in a pet,” the explanation by anagram is that he wasimpatient.
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Who knows theEasta land may knowFamed for itsteas, and long ageAseatof sage and seer.The native there, so full of tricks,Tosatehis hungereatswith sticks,Nor knows his ways are queer.
Who knows theEasta land may knowFamed for itsteas, and long ageAseatof sage and seer.The native there, so full of tricks,Tosatehis hungereatswith sticks,Nor knows his ways are queer.
Who knows theEasta land may knowFamed for itsteas, and long ageAseatof sage and seer.The native there, so full of tricks,Tosatehis hungereatswith sticks,Nor knows his ways are queer.
The missing words are in italics.
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Thecharade—
If doubled you would see my firstLet third and second be reversed.But if my last you would beholdIncrease my first a hundredfold.Combine them all, and you can traceThe four within an empty space.
If doubled you would see my firstLet third and second be reversed.But if my last you would beholdIncrease my first a hundredfold.Combine them all, and you can traceThe four within an empty space.
If doubled you would see my firstLet third and second be reversed.But if my last you would beholdIncrease my first a hundredfold.Combine them all, and you can traceThe four within an empty space.
is solved byVoid.
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In the words spoken in the hay-field to a thirsty toiler, “Mower, I will tap the cask!” are concealed by anagram the poet and his poem—William Cowper, The task.
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Thecharade—
Myfirstis small, and seldom reverential;My next not large enough to heed or prize;Mywholeis altogether consequential;My third though small is counted very wise—
Myfirstis small, and seldom reverential;My next not large enough to heed or prize;Mywholeis altogether consequential;My third though small is counted very wise—
Myfirstis small, and seldom reverential;My next not large enough to heed or prize;Mywholeis altogether consequential;My third though small is counted very wise—
is solved byImportant.
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To beaaaaaaaaaatCrIiOfUlSesstandingis the mark of a mean
is solved byTo be tenacious in the midst of trifles is the mark of a mean understanding.
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The letters which spellRED NUTS AND GINcan be recast to form the one wordUNDERSTANDING.
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The novel by Charles Dickens hidden in the piedletters—
CDEHHIILOOOPRSSTTUY
isThe Old Curiosity Shop.
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In swiftrelaysthe beaters addFreshlayersto the heaps of slain;And still, with lust of slaughter mad,Theslayerplies his hand amain!
In swiftrelaysthe beaters addFreshlayersto the heaps of slain;And still, with lust of slaughter mad,Theslayerplies his hand amain!
In swiftrelaysthe beaters addFreshlayersto the heaps of slain;And still, with lust of slaughter mad,Theslayerplies his hand amain!
The words in italics have the same six letters.
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Thecharade—
My first is nothing but a name,My second still more small,My whole shows such a lack of fameIt has no name at all.
My first is nothing but a name,My second still more small,My whole shows such a lack of fameIt has no name at all.
My first is nothing but a name,My second still more small,My whole shows such a lack of fameIt has no name at all.
is solved byNameless.
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When one of the children said, “If father gives us a new dog it will wake the lazy ones”—the words pointed to Susan and Ethel, whose names are buried in the sentence.
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Thecipher—
NGOTRDSREAOHRETNSVEENUDOEO
is solved by starting with last letter of the second line, followed by the first letter of the first line, and so on throughout, taking always the last and first unused letters alternately, and forming thus the proverb “One good turn deserves another!”
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Theenigma—
Well known by story, not by name,I died a death unknown before,Nor ever to corruption came;My shroud the waves cast on the shore.
Well known by story, not by name,I died a death unknown before,Nor ever to corruption came;My shroud the waves cast on the shore.
Well known by story, not by name,I died a death unknown before,Nor ever to corruption came;My shroud the waves cast on the shore.
is solved byLot’s wife.
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Thequestion—
How might an oyster, if it could speak and knew that unda is Latin for wave or water, complain in similar phonetic iteration when disturbed by thunder under unda?
is answeredthus—
He could exclaim, “a noise annoys an oyster!”
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The words in italics have the same fiveletters—
WhenCesar, our puppy, sets out for a run,Overacresheraces, all frolic and fun.For no whistlecareshe, in his desperate hurry,The slow sheep toscare, and the old cow to worry.
WhenCesar, our puppy, sets out for a run,Overacresheraces, all frolic and fun.For no whistlecareshe, in his desperate hurry,The slow sheep toscare, and the old cow to worry.
WhenCesar, our puppy, sets out for a run,Overacresheraces, all frolic and fun.For no whistlecareshe, in his desperate hurry,The slow sheep toscare, and the old cow to worry.
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The girls’ names shown by anagram in the sentence—“Bad hero set by thy door hurt me ma. Army may get ruder daily,” are Deborah, Betsy, Dorothy, Ruth, Emma, Mary, Amy, Gertrude, Lydia.
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The anagram is completedthus—
“Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.”True as old Ben’s stolid face!
“Lord Beaconsfield’s statue.”True as old Ben’s stolid face!
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The Shakespeareanagrams—
The tub sold has old rough shelves.And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts.A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow!
The tub sold has old rough shelves.And e’en this fisherman caught best white smelts.A living lord’s black dress, worn high, I vow!
are formed, letter for letter and line for line, from this passage in “Romeo andJuliet”—
“Love’s heralds should be thoughts,Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.”
“Love’s heralds should be thoughts,Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,Driving black shadows over low’ring hills.”
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The mystical gnome never flinches from toilWhoburiestherubiesin Orient soil;Yetbusiermortals will ever abound,Whobruiseall the soil till the treasure is found.
The mystical gnome never flinches from toilWhoburiestherubiesin Orient soil;Yetbusiermortals will ever abound,Whobruiseall the soil till the treasure is found.
The mystical gnome never flinches from toilWhoburiestherubiesin Orient soil;Yetbusiermortals will ever abound,Whobruiseall the soil till the treasure is found.
The words in italics are spelt with the same six letters.
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The Puzzleacrostic—
My feathered first has wings and sings,Unfledged my second swings its wings;My third on blackest pinions flies,My fourth can float beneath the skies.The letters to my first that fallAre the initials of them all.
My feathered first has wings and sings,Unfledged my second swings its wings;My third on blackest pinions flies,My fourth can float beneath the skies.The letters to my first that fallAre the initials of them all.
My feathered first has wings and sings,Unfledged my second swings its wings;My third on blackest pinions flies,My fourth can float beneath the skies.The letters to my first that fallAre the initials of them all.
is solvedthus—
◯◯◯◯◯●●●◯●●●◯●●●LARKARMYROOKKITE
◯◯◯◯◯●●●◯●●●◯●●●
LARKARMYROOKKITE
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My first was of thepiratebreed,Theiriratecaptain, hot and riled,Toratehis men found vain indeed,They onlyateand smoked, and smiled!
My first was of thepiratebreed,Theiriratecaptain, hot and riled,Toratehis men found vain indeed,They onlyateand smoked, and smiled!
My first was of thepiratebreed,Theiriratecaptain, hot and riled,Toratehis men found vain indeed,They onlyateand smoked, and smiled!
One letter is dropped each time.
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In the doublets puzzle HARE is made into SOUP by the following six links, changing one letter each time, and preserving theirorder—
HARE, hark, hack, sack, sock, soak, soap, SOUP.
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Theenigma—
Putting two small beasts that you takeTo the beginning of an end,A pointed weapon you will makeTo wound a foe or praise a friend.
Putting two small beasts that you takeTo the beginning of an end,A pointed weapon you will makeTo wound a foe or praise a friend.
Putting two small beasts that you takeTo the beginning of an end,A pointed weapon you will makeTo wound a foe or praise a friend.
is solved byEpigram.
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If a “newspaper” could speak, it might say by anagram of the general work of its staff,We pen pars.
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The positive quantity 1011 is turned into a negativethus:—
NO.
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The one word formed by anagram from “O, I’m man’s trial” isMatrimonials.
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Therebus—
EEE and xxx URXXI XXX and eee.
is solved by “Great ease and small crosses before you are twenty-one, great crosses and little ease after that.”
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The answer to the riddle “Why may not the owner of a pine forest fell his timber?” is—Because no one is allowed tocutwhen it is his owndeal.
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