November 24 2007

England's Queen Victoria liked puzzles. Her Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli would find them for her amusement. One day, he gave her a piece of paper that had only the following letters on it:

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Disraeli told the Queen that this was an ordinary English word with its letters rearranged. The challenge was to unscramble the letters to form the original word. Queen Victoria worked at the problem and it gave her several sleepless nights, but she was unable to crack the puzzle and had to ask Disraeli for the answer.

Can you do better than the Queen and find the word? I'll publish the answer in my next blog post.

George