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Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis Aug 2020

Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis

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A quest to find the smallest set of words that contain all 50 two letter abbreviations for US states and for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories.


Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

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Sentences and 2-word phrases are made from words having the same 2 different vowels, in the same order.


A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2020

A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell

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A Puzzle.


The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain Aug 2020

The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain

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A game.


Sound Reversals, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Sound Reversals, Susan Thorpe

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A word is divided into letter groups, the letter groups are then read in reverse order, and their sounds make another word.


Crosswords For Each Chapter In Annotated Alice, Ashley Post Aug 2020

Crosswords For Each Chapter In Annotated Alice, Ashley Post

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A series of crossword puzzles.


Instructions To Authors Aug 2020

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors for submitting articles to future issues of Word Ways.


Word Ways V.53 No.3 Complete Issue Aug 2020

Word Ways V.53 No.3 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.


Words Made From The Letters Of Alphabetically-Adjacent Letter Pairs, Susan Thorpe Jul 2020

Words Made From The Letters Of Alphabetically-Adjacent Letter Pairs, Susan Thorpe

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The search is on for words made exclusively from the letters in alphabetically-adjacent letter pairs.


Word Ways Ends!, Jeremiah Farrell May 2020

Word Ways Ends!, Jeremiah Farrell

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Announcement about the future of Word Ways.


A Steve Bloom Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell May 2020

A Steve Bloom Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

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A puzzle used for the Alice in Wonderland class at Butler University, used now to honor Dr. Steve Bloom.


This Side Up, Don Hauptman May 2020

This Side Up, Don Hauptman

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A poem.


Losing Or Gaining A Letter Makes A Phrase, Susan Thorpe May 2020

Losing Or Gaining A Letter Makes A Phrase, Susan Thorpe

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Lists of phrases made by losing or gaining a letter.


Afterwords, Steven Kahan May 2020

Afterwords, Steven Kahan

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An excerpt from Steven Kahan's puzzle book.


Visual Symmetry In Chinese Writing, Paul Jackson May 2020

Visual Symmetry In Chinese Writing, Paul Jackson

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A listing of visually symmetrical Chinese logographs which are symmetrical along either the x-axis or the y-axis.


Caucus Race Puzzle Master, Sam Stucky May 2020

Caucus Race Puzzle Master, Sam Stucky

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An Alice in Wonderland puzzle.


Instructions To Authors May 2020

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors for submitting articles for future issues of Word Ways.


Increasing And Decreasing, Susan Thorpe May 2020

Increasing And Decreasing, Susan Thorpe

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The letters of a word are split into groups. Assigning A=1, B=2 etc they increase or decrease.


Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 2 May 2020

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 2

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The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.


Colloquy May 2020

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to previous Word Ways articles.


Kenya Transposals, Jeff Grant May 2020

Kenya Transposals, Jeff Grant

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A list of 90 transposals of KENYA.


Spoonerism Name Game, Redux, Don Hauptman May 2020

Spoonerism Name Game, Redux, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

More onomastic reversals...and a sidebar.


Zero Redundancy!, Darryl Francis May 2020

Zero Redundancy!, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the February 2020 Word Ways the article 0.1479% Redundancy presented a list of words and names beginning with 675 of 676 possible two-letter combinations, or digraphs. The missing digraph was VQ.


Self-Descriptive Number Names, Alex Quiz May 2020

Self-Descriptive Number Names, Alex Quiz

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If you assign numbers to different letters, you can configure the numbers in a way so that the letters that make up a number add up to that number.


The Scunthorpe Problem, Darryl Francis May 2020

The Scunthorpe Problem, Darryl Francis

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Scunthorpe is an industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 80,000. So, what's the Scunthorpe problem?


Alternate Additions, Susan Thorpe May 2020

Alternate Additions, Susan Thorpe

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Start by adding a single letter to the beginning of a 2-letter word to make a 3-letter word then add a single letter to the end of the word to make a 4-letter word. Continue adding single letters alternately in this manner.


Words With Element Symbols, Darryl Francis May 2020

Words With Element Symbols, Darryl Francis

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Finding words that contain the symbols of the chemical elements.


Adding A Third Vowel, Susan Thorpe May 2020

Adding A Third Vowel, Susan Thorpe

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Begin with a word having two different vowels. Keeping the letters in the same order, add a third different vowel anywhere to make another word.


Seeing Is Believing, David Shaw May 2020

Seeing Is Believing, David Shaw

Word Ways

An essay on words with the suffix ending "ing".


Wordage, Roger Rondeau May 2020

Wordage, Roger Rondeau

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While thumbing a ride through the dictionary, I came across some 'age' words. Age is defined as the amount of time a person has lived and is also a stage of life; a time span. If I were a lexicographer, this is how I would define many of them.