It understands anagrams, puns, wordplay and has memorized every Shakespeare soliloquy, major river and world capital.

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Word game Quarrel finally reaches the Xbox console through the Xbox Live Arcade, some four years after the first spark of innovation that saw anagrams mixing with Risk, and two years after the code was completed.

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In a third study, the professors gave participants a set of anagrams that were impossible to solve, as well as timed IQ tests, then measured how long it took them to give up trying to solve the problems.

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Watson may also get thrown at first by a category such as Whirled Capitals, which is looking for anagrams of nations' capitals, but after the first couple of clues it will think to itself, "Aha, we're doing anagrams now, " and proceed to nail it.

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