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(1) Can you unscramble these ten titles?

Abacus Clan
Feather Do
That Buggy and the Doodle, Hi
Groat
Shark
Thing Fools Read
Clock Never Wrote House Fonts
Stymie Vicar
Plays on Weapon
Marauds

(2) These ten items, in that order, are a personal, subjective
list of the undersigned. Can you guess the criterion?

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On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Clock Never Wrote House Fonts

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Near enough for radio, as we used to say.
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David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> posted:

On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Clock Never Wrote House Fonts

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Near enough for radio, as we used to say.

Anagrammed movie titles with one letter off - a few more answers:

Abacus Clan - Casablanca
Feather Do - Godfather
Groat - Fargo
Shark - Shrek
Plays on Weapon - Apocalypse Now
Marauds - Amadeus
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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

(1) Can you unscramble these ten titles?

Abacus Clan
Feather Do
?? That Buggy and the Doodle, Hi
Groat
?? Shark
?? Thing Fools Read
Clock Never Wrote House Fonts
?? Stymie Vicar
Plays on Weapon
Marauds

Six out of 10 have been solved. (Shrek does not meet criterion (2).)
The #3 movie has a long title; easier might be the abbreviated title:
Buggy and Doodle
Another of the movies is shown above with an incomplete title.

All but five of the movies won Best Picture Oscar (though that is NOT
relevant to Criterion (2).) With a notable exception (Buggy and Doodle)
the other movies also did well at their Oscar ceremony.

(2) These ten items, in that order, are a personal, subjective
list of the undersigned. Can you guess the criterion?

Ilan Mayer <user4643@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> posted:

Clock Never Wrote House Fonts

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Anagrammed movie titles with one letter off - a few more answers:

Abacus Clan - Casablanca
Feather Do - Godfather
Groat - Fargo
Shark - Shrek
Plays on Weapon - Apocalypse Now
Marauds - Amadeus

Shrek meets the unscrambling criterion but is NOT the movie on MY list.
Shrek scores higher than my choice at both IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes
and got the first-ever Oscar for best animated feature. The
film on my list is very controversial, but did win (controversially!)
the Oscar for Best Picture.

My list goes on and on after #1-#10. Films #11-#13 include two more
episodes of a trilogy and a film with the ominous title
Meant Me

James Dow Allen appended only a curt valediction:

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On Sun, 17 May 2026 19:15:34 GMT, Ilan Mayer wrote:

Shark - Shrek

Shark - Crash?
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On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

That Buggy and the Doodle, Hi

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
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On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Thing Fools Read

I don't know it myself, but: "The Dragon Flies"?
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It's no surprise that the brief "Shark" maps to two different movies
(both Oscar-winning), but "Thing Fools Read" has almost thrice as many letters.

David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> posted:

On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Thing Fools Read

I don't know it myself, but: "The Dragon Flies"?

I'd never heard of it either but Google showed up with

The Man from Hong Kong (Chinese: tc|uEuo+ao+i), originally released
in the US as The Dragon Flies, is a 1975 action film written and
directed by Brian Trenchard-
...
The Observer called it "a witless display of non-stop mayhem."

No Oscars but

Peter Cheung won the Golden Horse Film Festival Award for Best Film Editing.

There is also a 2025 movie "Dragonfly."

But neither is #6 on my list. The title I scrambled may be misleading;
the full title is
Thing Fools Read: He Wrote Twist

And what is the list anyway? I'm afraid once this is revealed puzzlers
will have opportunity to psychoanalyze me.
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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

It's no surprise that the brief "Shark" maps to two different movies
(both Oscar-winning), but "Thing Fools Read" has almost thrice as many letters.

David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> posted:

On Sun, 17 May 2026 06:36:53 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Thing Fools Read

I don't know it myself, but: "The Dragon Flies"?

I'd never heard of it either but Google showed up with

The Man from Hong Kong (Chinese: tc|uEuo+ao+i), originally released
in the US as The Dragon Flies, is a 1975 action film written and
directed by Brian Trenchard-
...
The Observer called it "a witless display of non-stop mayhem."

No Oscars but

Peter Cheung won the Golden Horse Film Festival Award for Best Film Editing.

There is also a 2025 movie "Dragonfly."

But neither is #6 on my list. The title I scrambled may be misleading;
the full title is
Thing Fools Read: He Wrote Twist

And what is the list anyway? I'm afraid once this is revealed puzzlers
will have opportunity to psychoanalyze me.

Two more:
Thing Fools Read: He Wrote Twist - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Stymie Vicar - Mystic River
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