Introduction
The sentences below, taken from well-known authors, have been jumbled up. See if you can restore them to their original order. Just as the word ‘listen’ can make meaningless anagrams (ilnets) and also meaningful ones (tinsel, silent, enlist), so also these jumbled sentences could make more than one intelligible sentence — but which one did our author write?
The sentences in this puzzle are taken from a list of 58 games. They are listed shortest first.
1. Was dancing about wild Katie. P. G. Wodehouse
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Katie was wild about dancing.
2. Haven’t least the idea I. Cyril Hare
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I haven’t the least idea.
3. Suddenly change a and came then. John Buchan
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And then suddenly came a change.
4. I serious believe are you cannot. A. A. Milne
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I cannot believe you are serious.
5. They place fairly to flocked the. P. G. Wodehouse
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They fairly flocked to the place.
6. The replied man English perfect in. Agatha Christie
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The man replied in perfect English.
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