Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year

How many words can you make from the letters in the word 'Happy New Year'.

1. Keeping the sequence
2. Not keeping the sequence

and Happy New Year to all you ToM Puzzlers!

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10 Comments:

Anonymous Zaux said...

Probably more, but I got 19 for the "in order":

apnea
hew
hear
hay
ape
aye
appear
anew
ear
wear
near
pear
par
pew
per
awe
any
pea
war

January 1, 2010 3:02 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

4 more, that's 23 (in order):

ewe
he
her
hey

January 1, 2010 3:11 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

Did find 1 more (in order)(that's 24):

ewer

January 1, 2010 3:15 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

I'm sure there's more. Here's 26 "not keeping the sequence":

pane
wane
yearn
peep
peen
heap
weep
reap
rape
pare
nape
ray
ran
rap
pan
paw
pay
raw
way
earn
yaw
yarnwarn
harp
warp
aware

January 1, 2010 3:29 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

In the post above this one,"yarnwarn" is obviously 2 words "yarn" and "warn" (typo)

January 1, 2010 3:37 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

A few more:

in order:

peer
pee
yew

total = 27 in order

not in order:

hare
rye
where
here
were

a total of 31 not in order

January 1, 2010 9:29 PM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

Found a total of 58 words in:

HAPPY NEW YEAR

January 1, 2010 10:05 PM  
Anonymous Karl Sharman said...

Do the three words Happy,New and Year count?

January 2, 2010 12:31 AM  
Anonymous Zaux said...

Hi karl... the three obvious words would certainly count in the "in order" category ... heh heh ... I couldn't see the forest for the trees.

January 2, 2010 6:03 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I found a few more for the "not in order":

her
are
pen
nap
pep

January 2, 2010 1:59 PM  

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