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   Peter to All   
   Re: Combining anagrams with melodies   
   22 Sep 15 19:31:53   
   
   From: ancientbrit@gmail.com   
      
   Hi Phil   
      
   Thanks for the feedback - much appreciated. The full handle is Peter George   
   Quintenelia Brooks. That should put some meat on the bone :)   
      
   There are different levels of difficulty for the AnagraMelodies. The basic   
   type is, as you say, easy to solve once you've identified the boundaries of   
   the anagram. That version could be said to be analogous to the Easy level of   
   the 6 x 6 version of    
   Sudoku. There are at least four levels above that - to continue with the   
   rating system, those would be Intermediate, Difficult, Tough, and Diabolical.   
      
   An early example of the Difficult type is shown on the Facebook page (the   
   Fairy-tale post). Handle turning is more difficult with that one.   
      
   I don't know that revealing the melody one note at a time would be helpful,   
   unless the notes were taken from random positions in the melody. Revealing   
   them in melodic sequence might not help since the reading of the melody (or at   
   least, one version of    
   the reading since there are multiple "walks" possible) is orthogonal to the   
   melody, and that can sometimes mean that the "first" note is in fact close to   
   the end of the melody (for one walk type).   
      
   It's also possible that not all of the notes map to letters in the anagram.   
      
   In some cases it's possible to find the subject simply by Googling the anagram   
   in the title - but then that's akin to looking up the solution to a Sudoku   
   puzzle online or using an app to find it for you. Not quite as satisfying.   
      
   Thanks once again,   
      
   Kind regards,   
      
   Peter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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