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