If you rearrange the letters of the word 'SILENT', you get the word 'LISTEN'. What single English word can be formed by rearranging the letters of 'NEW YORK TIMES'?
Monuments
Counting the letters in 'NEW YORK TIMES' and rearranging them spells out the single word 'MONUMENTS'.
About this riddle
Logic riddles give you a few facts and ask what must be true. List what you know, cross out what cannot be, and see what is left.
Difficulty: Hard. More like this: Logic riddles with answers or try Einstein's Logic Grid for a different kind of puzzle.
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