Ana­grams

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3. Anagrams

A row of shuffled letter tiles and a row of empty places. Put the letters back in order to spell a word; then the next set appears, a little longer than the one before.

How Anagrams works

Tap the letter tiles in the order of the word, or type them on a keyboard. Tap a placed letter to send it back. When the places hold the right word, the puzzle moves on to the next set. The shuffle button puts the tiles in a new order if they keep hiding the word.

Every set of letters spells exactly one word in the language’s list — there is no second anagram to argue about, and the scramble itself is never a word. Easy has six words of four or five letters, Medium eight words of five to eight letters and Hard eight words of six to ten letters.

A hint puts one more correct letter in place and locks it. Hints are counted, but the word is still solved when you complete it.

Ways to unscramble faster

• Find the ending first. Many long words end in a familiar group: -tion and -ness in English, -zione and -mente in Italian, -ság and -ség in Hungarian, -nen and -us in Finnish. Put those tiles aside and the rest gets shorter.
• Pair letters that like each other. TH, CH and ST in English; GL, GN and SC in Italian; SZ, GY and NY in Hungarian, each of them two tiles; doubled consonants in Finnish.
• Read the letters in a different order. Vowels first, then consonants, or the tiles from right to left: it loosens the grip of the order on the screen.
• Shuffle on purpose. If the same false start keeps forming, shuffle the tiles; a different order breaks the pattern your eye has fixed on.
• Trust a real word. Since every set has a single answer, any real word you can spell with all the tiles is the answer.

Questions about Anagrams