r/wordplay

Something I've come to love about word games: the most satisfying finds are almost never the obscure words. They're the everyday objects that go invisible when you scramble them.

Two real examples from recent games of UniWords (disclosure: I help make it — no links, this is just for the word people):

• A A B D H I N R sat on a player's rack forever. It's a HAIRBAND. The thing possibly on your head right now. 89 points, and it was invisible until suddenly it wasn't.
• Same week, someone dropped DYSTOCIA for 92 — a word I had to look up (obstetrics). Opposite phenomenon: a word almost nobody knows, spotted instantly by someone who did.

I find the first kind far more magical. Your brain files HAIRBAND under "too ordinary to be points" and simply refuses to surface it. There's probably a name for that effect.

What's your favourite hiding-in-plain-sight word — the one you couldn't see until you could?

I need a list of before and after titles, reality shows and horror movies that share a word. The shared word will end the first title and begin the second. Here's what I have so far:
Love Island of Dr. Moreau
Kitchen Nightmare on Elm Street
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Have Eyes
The Real World War Z
Cape/Primal Fear Factor
The Blair Witch Project Runway

Any others? Thanks

To convey anger, arousal, unease, or frustration.

ex: That chapped her ass, that rustles my jimmies, he Rogers my Hammerstein