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In case anyone is wondering, the two lines above are anagrams of each other. It's pretty impressive, any hints on the method you use to come up with this?

• logfromblammo 10y ago
  Work on both sides at once. I knew the phrase had to contain the word "anagram", so I started with that. At first, it was "better anagram", and so it looked like this: better anagram lerrneet letter rearrangement ba So then I think of a word that both uses up the excess letters and can reasonably fit into the phrase. Whatever letters in the word that are not in the stock for that side get added to the other side. Sometimes I add words specifically to up vowel count or supply low frequency letters needed for words that fit that half of the phrase. At some point, I had an excess 's', so "better" got turned into "best", and I had to use up its excess "ter", which got stuck with an excess 'u' to make "true". I also had an excess 'n', so a "the" became "then". Those somewhat awkward words go in last, which is where that "True then, as" came from. Getting rid of the last letters on both sides is the hardest part, because there is rarely a perfect word that uses up all your letters, just like in Scrabble. Sometimes you just have to unravel a few words and try different ones in their place. In the end, I just ran out of time to work on it. It's a bonus if I can get near synonyms on both sides, like "transcend" and "goes beyond"
  • madcaptenor 10y ago
    You might like the anagrammatic sonnet "Washington Crossing the Delaware", in which every line is an anagram of the title and the story of the titular event is told: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delaware_(sonnet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delawa...