[net.puzzle] multi-anagram puzzles

dash@fluke.UUCP (Mike Dash) (05/02/84)

what 4-letter word has 4 anagrams (5 total, counting the original word
itself)?  what 5-letter word has 6 anagrams (7 total)?

all words are english, and none are proper nouns.


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answers, rot13:
gur svefg jbeq naq vgf nantenzf vf gbcf fgbc cbgf fcbg naq cbfg naq gur
frpbaq jbeq vf cnerf fcner crnef fcrne erncf encrf naq cnefr.

esr@iheds.UUCP (E. Rieback) (05/04/84)

Tsk, tsk! Actually, there is an additional anagram for tops that you failed
to include - opts.

E. Rieback

ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (05/07/84)

Even with the additional solution given by E. Rieback (and not marked
spoiler!), see footnote*, that 6-way anagram is not unique.
Another one is (rot13):

	rnfg rngf rgnf fngr frng grnf

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a 7-way 4-letter anagram out there;
it only took me a minute to think of that one.

Mark Brader

*Rieback's extension to the original solution (rot13):
	bcgf cbfg cbgf fcbg fgbc gbcf