Saturday, December 24, 2011

1. Consider the two words PLUM and SINUS. A simple change will produce an interesting result. Can you determine what it is?

2. Consider the following unrelated words:

ONSET
NEWS
WRONG
HORNET

The same change to each of the words will result in four new, but related, words.

HINTS:
1. It has to do with exchanging letters between the two words.
2. It has to do with anagrams.

Answers:

1. Exchanging the M from PLUM with the S from SINUS gives PLUS and MINUS.
2. The anagrams of the four words rhyme.

ONSET - STONE
NEWS - SEWN
WRONG - GROWN
HORNET - THRONE

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