Fifteen anagrams built from author names and a few well-known literary names. Every scrambled phrase uses exactly the same letters as the answer — rearrange them all to find who’s hiding inside.<\/p>\n
Unlike the scramble puzzle elsewhere on this site, these anagrams cross word boundaries: the letters of a two-word clue phrase might reshuffle into a name with a completely different word split. \u201cI WANT MARK,\u201d for instance, doesn’t keep \u201cMARK\u201d in the same place in the answer. Treat each clue phrase as one long string of letters rather than word-by-word, and the hint underneath each one narrows things down if you get stuck. A useful habit: count the vowels in the clue phrase before you start rearranging. Most English names keep a fairly predictable ratio of vowels to consonants, so a clue phrase with an unusual number of one or the other is a hint about the shape of the name you’re hunting for.<\/p>\n
Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of Emma and Persuasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of Bleak House and Great Expectations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of a single novel set on the Yorkshire moors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of The Importance of Being Earnest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Irish author whose most famous novel is told in letters and diaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Pen name of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of a novel begun during a rainy Geneva summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of White Fang.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Author of The Awakening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Boy who talks his friends into whitewashing a fence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Young man whose portrait ages instead of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Walter Scott novel set in twelfth-century England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Rearrange every letter to find the name.<\/p>\n Surname of Defoe’s castaway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n Each anagram was checked letter by letter against its answer, so every scrambled phrase uses exactly the same letters as the name it hides, with nothing added or left out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Several answers here are pen names rather than birth names: \u201cMARK TWAIN,\u201d \u201cLEWIS CARROLL,\u201d and \u201cOSCAR WILDE\u201d (Wilde used his own name, but the anagram works on the same principle) all show up in the one-line hints attached to each answer. If a name looks unfamiliar once revealed, the hint is there to connect it back to a book you already know.<\/p>\n Fifteen anagrams built from author names and literary figures. Every scrambled phrase uses exactly the same letters as the answer hiding inside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bpz_difficulty":"hard","bpz_puzzle_type":"anagram","bpz_time":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-title-word-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookpuzzles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reveal the answer to anagram 1<\/summary>\n
\nSLICK DANCERS HE<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 2<\/summary>\n
\nI WANT MARK<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 3<\/summary>\n
\nMY NOBLE TIRE<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 4<\/summary>\n
\nWIDE CORALS<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 5<\/summary>\n
\nBROKERS MAT<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 6<\/summary>\n
\nSCROLL WAILER<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 7<\/summary>\n
\nREALLY MESHY<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 8<\/summary>\n
\nNO JOCK LAND<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 9<\/summary>\n
\nBONNET NEAR<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 10<\/summary>\n
\nPACK THE ION<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 11<\/summary>\n
\nMAYOR WEST<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 12<\/summary>\n
\nROARING DAY<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 13<\/summary>\n
\nHAVE ION<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 14<\/summary>\n
\nIRON SNOB<\/span><\/p>\nReveal the answer to anagram 15<\/summary>\n
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