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. About wild Katie dancing was. P. G. Wodehouse
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Katie was wild about dancing.
2. Idea the haven’t least I. Cyril Hare
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I haven’t the least idea.
3. Suddenly and change a then came. John Buchan
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And then suddenly came a change.
4. Serious cannot I are you believe. A. A. Milne
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I cannot believe you are serious.
5. The flocked fairly they place to. P. G. Wodehouse
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They fairly flocked to the place.
6. The in man perfect replied English. Agatha Christie
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The man replied in perfect English.
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