Riddle me this: Harry Potter and literatures most fiendish head-scratchers

A clever Twitter user has solved JK Rowlings anagram and Rowling says she wont be setting another. So pit your wits instead against this selection of the finest literary riddles, from Tolkien to Borges

Call off the anagramists: JK Rowling has announced that one Emily Strong, tweeting as @emybemy2, has solved her Twitter anagram: Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand wont tolerate this nonsense. No, it wasnt Newt Scamander only went to New York to find a Pulkmahjkk, or I brung bick Harry. U gladd. Me go wurcke now. No speak. Nor was it meant to warn us that Rowlings fur work canoe may fray. Using old-fashioned pen and paper, @emybemy2s nerdiness paid off eventually and she came up with the right answer: Newt Scamander only meant to stay in New York for a few hours.

You are hereby christened The One True Hermione of Twitter. I am deeply impressed, that really wasnt easy! tweeted Rowling to her winner, adding to her millions of followers: Thank you, thank you, for being the kind of people who get excited about an anagram #myspiritualhome.

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