Andrew J. Ries brings some order to this mixed-up, crazy world, or vice versa. By Caitlin Lovinger PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — Not bragging, but explaining the last few puzzles by Andrew J. Reis has taught me ...

An Anagram is a word or phrase that can be formed by rearranging the letters of another phrase or word using each letter exactly once. An example is the word “listen” as it is an anagram of the word ...

If you love word play, you probably know that a word — or longer piece of writing — that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another ...

Since antiquity, we have been fascinated by a seemingly simple verbal mind game: Can the letters in a word be rearranged to produce another word that reveals a meaning hidden in the original word?

As is well known, anagrams are ancient. Today, we see them as an interesting genre of wordplay. But they were hardly perceived as such in the past, and to an extent even today. Anagrams of people’s ...