Chikuru ([info]chikuru) wrote,
2009-04-21 18:42:00

More Corruptness

This week's puzzler from Will Shortz on NPR (Sunday morning at 7:40 on KUT in these parts) was, "Rearrange the letters in MORE CORRUPTNESS to produce the name of a popular magazine".

This puzzle has proven to be remarkably viral at work and I've been impressed at how much harder it can be to unscramble 15 letters than the 5 or 6 you get in the daily jumble. I did figure out the answer today (finally!) while staring at the fifteen Scrabble tiles I'd taken in to work. The answer jumped out at me while I was on a teleconference call. ([info]raaga123, by the way, figured this one out in ten minutes.)

Anyway, the answer is...

(drum roll, please)

...not as interesting as the following non-answers:

Computer Snorers
Errs on Computers
Mo's Current Prose
Corner Post Muser
Me Proust Scorner
No R.E.M. Procrustes

and my personal favorite:

U R Corpse Monster

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[info]livingdeb

April 22 2009, 01:59:29 UTC 3 years ago

First try: Cosmopolitan. Nope.
Second try: Computer something.
Went off to dance class. Had a muffin. Came back to computer.
Third try: got it.

[info]chikuru

April 22 2009, 02:57:37 UTC 3 years ago

Congrats! The muffin may have been the key. I will remember, next time I'm facing a tough puzzle (which seems to happen just about every day at work), "Perhaps a muffin would help."

[info]zml

April 22 2009, 02:45:13 UTC 3 years ago

I cheated: http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/cgi-bin/nph-an?line=more+corruptness&words=2&dict=antworth&doai=on

[info]chikuru

April 22 2009, 02:59:21 UTC 3 years ago

There are some good ones in there. I like "return composers" and "trouser corpsmen".

[info]zml

April 22 2009, 05:15:58 UTC 3 years ago

"Monsters Procure" is pretty amusing given the real answer. "Coroner Stumpers" would be a funny magazine. "Menses Corruptor" is kind of disturbing.

[info]pamwheatfree

April 22 2009, 13:39:27 UTC 3 years ago

Strangely enough, I got it the second I saw the more interesting titles. I guess that rearranged all the letters in my brain.

I hadn't thought about using scrabble letters to do the jumble.
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