I’m pretty excited about this. We’re finally getting around to publishing something that we’ve been working on for a year. I’ll admit, it’s likely not going to be limited to August at this point. But Announcing Anagram Month just wouldn’t sound as cool.
I have to be candid with you, usually Franklin’s more advanced stuff kind of goes over my head. But this is cool. The next month is going to be full of honest-to-God improvements and invaluable insights on branching anagrams. You really shouldn’t miss it. However, because several posts in a row about anagrams is going to be alarming, I figured I should introduce what’s going to happen first.
Transgressive anagrams will be addressed. Progressive anagrams will be improved upon. A third type of anagram you’ve never seen before will be introduced. And finally, something very cool will be released to help you create them all like never before.
But for now, you’ll need a way to practice all of these.
You see, a while ago, I wanted to memorize a transgressive anagram I painstakingly created by hand. I looked around the Internet, and it seemed that nobody had created a tool for practicing the use of an anagram before. I felt this was something that should exist, so I did something about it. I paid someone else to make it.
Put a list of words in, have it think of one, and guess letters until you can guess the word! This may seem like a fancy game of Hangman, but I promise I actually successfully memorized my anagram for Brian Brushwood’s book tests using it. (These book tests, previously mentioned in Odds and Ends #2, are about to get a lot more exciting: A mysterious new book is about to come out!)