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On-air challenge: Every answer is the name of a movie that has won in one of the top four categories at the Oscars: best picture, best director, best actor or best actress. Every answer is a solid word or name. Identify the movies from their anagrams.

For example: Go Asunder --> Dangerous (1935, for which Bette Davis won best actress)

Last week's challenge:Think of three eight-letter words that are identical in spelling except for the fourth letter. Each word contains a "G" that is pronounced differently in all three words. What words are they?

Answer: Stranger, stringer, stronger.

Winner: Barbara Haven of Folsom, Calif.

Next week's challenge:What two 8-letter terms in math are anagrams of each other? One word is from geometry, the other is from calculus. What words are they?

Submit Your Answer

If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you Thursday, March 3, at 3 p.m. ET.

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NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz has appeared on Weekend Edition Sunday since the program's start in 1987. He's also the crossword editor of The New York Times, the former editor of Games magazine, and the founder and director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (since 1978).