A clever Twitter user has solved JK Rowling’s anagram – and Rowling says she won’t be setting another. So pit your wits instead against this selection of the finest literary riddles, from Tolkien to Borges
Call off the anagramists: JK Rowling has announced that one Emily Strong, tweeting as @emybemy2, has solved her Twitter anagram: “Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this nonsense.” No, it wasn’t “Newt Scamander only went to New York to find a Pulkmahjkk”, or “I brung bick Harry. U gladd. Me go wurcke now. No speak.” Nor was it meant to warn us that Rowling’s “fur work canoe may fray”. Using “old-fashioned pen and paper”, @emybemy2’s “nerdiness paid off eventually” and she came up with the right answer: “Newt Scamander only meant to stay in New York for a few hours.”
“You are hereby christened The One True Hermione of Twitter. I am deeply impressed, that really wasn’t easy!” tweeted Rowling to her winner, adding to her millions of followers: “Thank you, thank you, for being the kind of people who get excited about an anagram #myspiritualhome.”
Rowling has said that she has to work now - “I’ve got a novel to finish and a screenplay to tweak” - and a second riddle won’t be forthcoming. So for all of you out there with time on your hands and no codes to crack, here are a selection of our favourite riddles from literature. Get pondering.
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“You are hereby christened The One True Hermione of Twitter. I am deeply impressed, that really wasn’t easy!” tweeted Rowling to her winner, adding to her millions of followers: “Thank you, thank you, for being the kind of people who get excited about an anagram #myspiritualhome.”
Rowling has said that she has to work now - “I’ve got a novel to finish and a screenplay to tweak” - and a second riddle won’t be forthcoming. So for all of you out there with time on your hands and no codes to crack, here are a selection of our favourite riddles from literature. Get pondering.
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