The Contest Center - Anagram Puzzles

Anagram Puzzles
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Part A -- Anagram Riddles
The answer to each of these riddles is an anagram. That is, one word is formed from the letters of another word by changing their order, for example HOSE into SHOE. So, the answer to "What do you use to wash your footwear?" might be SHOE HOSE.

We have moved some of the Anagram Riddles to their own webpage. To try the new Anagram Quiz click here.

1 - Which girl is completely average? [Answer]
2 - Before 1850, how did the Philharmonic transport its instruments? [Answer]
3 - What is the Bordeaux wine monopoly? [Answer]
4 - Who guards the doors? [Answer]
5 - What is a moth-eaten knife? [Answer]
6 - What were those theatrical carryings-on after everyone got sick from eating pork? [Answer]
7 - What jargon is spoken in fortresses? [Answer]
8 - What did the waves leave behind on the upper deck? [Answer]
9 - How do you start lowering costs? [Answer]
10 - Who notices when the dissidents are marching? [Answer]
11 - What do you do with worn-out bedsheets? [Answer]
12 - Who wants to join the guerillas? [Answer]
13 - What is beach sickness? [Answer]
14 - Who is that frantic jokester? [Answer]
15 - How do you make all the furnishings complementary? [Answer]
16 - What gives you the right to keep quiet? [Answer]
17 - Who alone is loyal to the king? [Answer]
18 - What is a subdivided oceanfront? [Answer]
19 - Who is the ballerina from Khartoum? [Answer]
20 - How can you use the same method again? [Answer]

Animals (contributed by Sudipta Das)
       Take two words, and arrange all of their letters to form the name of an animal. Now, delete one letter from each of the two words, and rearrange each of them to form two new words. Arrange all of their letters to form the name of another animal. [Answer]

Opposite (contributed by Sudipta Das)
       There is a well-known phrase consisting of two 7-letter words that have opposite meanings. Delete the last two letters from each of these words. Arrange the deleted letters to form a 4-letter word, and arrange the remaining letters to form a 10-letter word closely related to the original phrase. [Answer]

Gambling (contributed by Sudipta Das)
       Take the name of a famous fictional detective, and arrange the letters to form the name of a place where you might find gambling, and a person who might work there. [Answer]

Part B -- One Word Anagrams
Rearrange the letters in each of the following phrases so that they spell a single English word. For example, the letters of TEA GUARD can be rearranged to spell GRADUATE.

AL'S A NAG
NEON ROOF
SURE COAL
PAVE HULA
MOTH PAGE
MICAH LADY
PIANO MENU
BONFIRE UP
LONG ZOO RAG
EROTIC HELP
GAME ARTIST
AIR PROMISE
ROAST MULES
AID COIN OAF
VITAL CRAYON
HOP A GLACIER
MANLY EYESORE
DIOCESE POLKA
IOTA OPEN A MOO
UNCOIL SUM BUM
TEENS ENQUIRE
INTENSE MOSAIC
ABUSE BASIL OIL
PROBLEM IN CHINESE

Part C - Anagram Humor

It's A Mine
After digging a very deep mineshaft, the engineers failed to locate the ore body. One of them thought the ore might be just below the surface, and they should dig a trench, instead of a shaft, to intercept the POSITED TOPSIDE DEPOSIT.

My Car
MARCY says MY CAR is a CAMRY.

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