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Anagram

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The first Lost anagram

An anagram is the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce another, using all the original letters only once. Anagrams should reflect or comment upon the original subject, such as being a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise.

The revelation of Ethan Rom's name as an anagram for "Other Man", a fact emphasized on the Oceanic-air.com website, led many fans to discover that the Lost metaverse could be similarly analyzed for such content.

1 True anagrams
2 False anagrams
3 Alternate reality games
4 External Links

True anagrams

The following are true anagrams since they have been verified by the producer's of Lost. This means that not only are the anagrams relevant to the original words, but the producer's of Lost purposefully used the original words with the hope fans would discover the anagram.

Name	Anagram	Source
Ethan Rom	Other man	Oceanic-air.com website [1] (Deuterocanonical)
Gary Troup	Purgatory	{need reference link}
Henry Gale + Minnesota	See an Other man lying	{need reference link}
Mittelos	Lost time	Official Lost Podcast 12 February 2007
Hoffs/Drawlar	Flashforward	Enhanced Episodes
Anthony Cooper + Adam Seward	Sawyer, the con man, a poor dad	{need reference link}

False anagrams

To discuss suspected anagrams, please visit the Anagram/Theories page.

While nearly any word or phrase can be rearranged into other words, the intent of anagramming is to generate something meaningful in the context of the original word or phrase.

For example, the phrase "Vincent the dog" can be anagrammed into over 600 phrases, including "Iced Thong Vent" and "Dig The Convent". While technically these are anagrams, they are false anagrams since they have no relevance to Lost.

Perception of patterns or connections, where in fact none exist, is a phenomenon known as apophenia.

Alternate reality games

For more information, see The Lost Experience
For more information, see Find 815

Anagram solving was also used to gain many clues and passwords in The Lost Experience and, to a lesser extent, Find 815.

Two clear character anagrams generally accepted as "true" in the Lost Experience are "waking dream" for Mandrake Wig and "yellow lab" for Wally Bole. In Find 815, "smash moat" and "a warn witness" are both clear anagrams of Sam Thomas and "I want answers", respectively.