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An Order 5 Affine Geometry, Norwich Bumstead
An Order 5 Affine Geometry, Norwich Bumstead
Word Ways
This square, composed of OED words, is semimagic because any row or column (the rook sweeps) anagrams into NORWICH BUMSTEAD. "Semi" means the diagonals don't.
Affine Word Geometries, Oscar Thumpbindle
Affine Word Geometries, Oscar Thumpbindle
Word Ways
Recall that a finite Affine plane of order n must have n-squared points n-squared + n lines, with n points to a line.
Acrostic Equations, Anil
Acrostic Equations, Anil
Word Ways
David Morice in WW 96-179 introduced acrostic equations with the only possible perfect example, TEN = Twenty + Eighty - Ninety. It's purity is perhaps best left unpolluted by more forced examples. But nooo, I couldn't refrain from offering variously flawed solutions for the other number names.
Play Tic-Tac-Toe Ambidextrously, Jeremiah Farrell
Play Tic-Tac-Toe Ambidextrously, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
THE GAME: Two players alternately chose one of the words ARTY, BRED, DOUX, EXIT, MAID, MOLT, RIOS, SLA, SUEY until one of them wins by obtaining three words with a common letter. If neither player gets three of the same letter. If neither player gets three of the same letter, the game is a draw.
A Backgammon Tournament In Mathematics Puns, Win Emmons
A Backgammon Tournament In Mathematics Puns, Win Emmons
Word Ways
I'm from the wide open SPACES near L-paso, and they call me TEX. One Sunday several years ago Emma, Dee, Polly, Cal and I were TURING Kentucky in our CHEV ALLEY when I suggested that we attend a backgammon tournament in LIOUVILLE.
I'Ve Got Your Number, Leonard Ashley
I'Ve Got Your Number, Leonard Ashley
Word Ways
1-2-3 now, let's have the answers to those clues about numbers as used in British and American slang. Some are a little "near the bone," as the British say, numbers being used not only for convenience (as in telegraphic greetings) but also for sidestepping unpleasantness. Good luck. 10-4.
Unusual Words, Susan Thorpe
Unusual Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
GIGANTIC is a word familiar to readers of Word Ways in having two letters G with strikingly different pronunciations. Other words which have two like letters with obviously different pronunciations include JACKAL, ACETIC, EGRET, GORGE, INSIDE, JERONIMO, BASES, UNUSED, XEROX and YELLOWY. There are thousands of other words with 2 like letters which have different pronunciations. Many of these differences are more subtle than those in the …
Bailey's Hexameters, Jeremiah Farrell
Bailey's Hexameters, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
This was Al Shapiro's handout at the Gathering 4 Gardner 8 in March 2008.
I Love You More Than..., Simon Nightingale
I Love You More Than..., Simon Nightingale
Word Ways
When my children were little we played a game called "I love you more than...". It involved making a long list and alternatingly adding an item. The aim was to memorise the list. If you failed to remember the list, then you didn't love enough!! It is the same principle as "my aunt packed in her trunk...". By tradition, we always started with "I love you more than all the tea in china ... and the hairs on my head and the grass in the meadow and so on ...."
Letter Banks, Ed Pegg Jr.
Letter Banks, Ed Pegg Jr.
Word Ways
Letter banks use and reuse the letters of a given set (the bank). Here are some nice examples.
Lomorock, Solomon W. Golomb
Lomorock, Solomon W. Golomb
Word Ways
Guess what Sol's favorite vowel is! He claims this is "very poetic. Translation: It doesn't make much sense!" Can readers supply the sense?
Overlapping Sequences, Susan Thorpe
Overlapping Sequences, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Starting with two or more generic sequences, there are several ways in which they may be arranged in relation to each other, sometimes forming a word.
Nanomechatronics, Ed Pegg Jr.
Nanomechatronics, Ed Pegg Jr.
Word Ways
I like nanomechatronics a lot. Add a single letter to a phrase and come up with an arrangement of a topic or person in the news.
Rocket Surgery, Don Hauptman
Rocket Surgery, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
As I continue to work on a book of funny errors, I encounter no shortage of material. Whether online, or in print, one readily finds such confusions - often with amusing consequences - as tenant for tenet, diffuse for defuse, pour for pore, loathe for loath, martial for marital, pubic for public, Calvary for cavalry. But nothing quite equals the distinctive website address inexplicably chosen by a shrink named Richard S. Horowitz: richardtherapist.com. Your blooper contributions, to the above address, are welcomed. Now, here is a collection of risible specimens.
-Gry Revisited, Darryl Francis
-Gry Revisited, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Over the years, much has been written in Word Ways about words and names ending in the three letters -gry. Since these same three letters can also be arranged in five other ways, I wondered whether any words existed that ended with these. A hunt through the Oxford English Dictionary turned up some items of interest.
Logology In Hollywood, John Holgate
Logology In Hollywood, John Holgate
Word Ways
The IMDb - the International Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) - is a handy source of data for logology.
Dipping into it recently I was pleased to unearth a fourteen-step transpositional ladder starting with Steven Spielberg's sublime classic 'ET - the Extraterrestrial' and ending with the ridiculous romantic comedy 'Miss Personality'.
A Curious Crossword, Wei-Hwa Huang
Kickshaws, David Morice
The Vulgar Tongue, Jeff Grant
The Vulgar Tongue, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Slang forms a significant part of the English language. The first slang dictionary appeared over 300 years ago, recording terms that are now mostly obsolete. Some of the old favourites survived though, and a few were thought too vulgar to include in standard dictionaries until quite recently.
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Word Ways
Butler's Odd Topics Society meets every now and then to discuss Odd Topics of any nature. Professor Baetzhold is the Poet Laureate Odd Topics Society.
Russian Alphamagic Squares, Lee B. Croft
Russian Alphamagic Squares, Lee B. Croft
Word Ways
It has been twenty-two years since Dutch Mathematician Lee C. F. Sallows defined certain "magic" squares of numbers to be "alphamagic" squares. He then wrote: "Alphamagic is the word I use to describe any magic array ... that remains magic when all of its entries are replaced by numbers representing the word length, in letters, of their conventional written names (thus one (1) becomes 3)." Such an alphamagic array represents an extraordinary confluence of "magic" in the world of numbers with "magic" in the world of words.
Some Cryptographic Challenges, David L. Silverman
Some Cryptographic Challenges, David L. Silverman
Word Ways
The Word Buff offers a pangrammatic cryptogram which is deceptively difficult to solve (both Darryl Francis and Ross Eckler failed to do so). Can Word Ways readers do it?
Kickshaws Revisited, David L. Silverman
Kickshaws Revisited, David L. Silverman
Word Ways
A kickshaw is defined either in a neutral manner as "a bauble, rifle, or knicknack" or more flatteringly as "a fancy tidbit; a delicacy." The purpose of this feature is to satisfy both definitions by presenting linguistic items of light weight and vast diversity, designed to appeal to the tastes of all recreational linguisticians.
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgotten ideas, connect seemingly-disparate concepts, and suggest further investigation.
The Magic Spell, Bob Friedhoffer
The Magic Spell, Bob Friedhoffer
Word Ways
(Based on Jim Steinmeyer's 9 card Problem)
Using your amazing mystical powers, or is it your knowledge of an exotic mathematical principle unknown to your friends, you tell them the name of a book that they have freely selected.
Aerst Transposals, Jeff Grant
Aerst Transposals, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
My article "Transposing Rates" in the November 1987 Word Ways has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the letters AERST. Further research has expanded the collection to 85, with many of the original entries being improved as well. Abbreviations like ESRTA (Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association) are excluded; however, a couple of derivatives (RTase, TSAer) are listed. Names with initials, such as T.S. RAE, are omitted, as are contrived terms and purely foreign words. Due to the nature of the source (Net), some examples may be suspect.
Definitive Tail Homophones, Anil
Definitive Tail Homophones, Anil
Word Ways
Susan Thorpe introduced Homophonic Relationships (HR) in the February Kickshaws (07-41) in which a phonic part of a word is a related word, eg, "forestry: tree". When she asked for further examples, I doubt she had in mind this many, but she had stumbled, literally through the back door, into an area I've been going at for awhile I call Definitive Homophones (DH), where a homophone of the whole target word or phrase is a synonym or strong affinitive.
What's In? A Name!, Steve Kahan
What's In? A Name!, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Each of the fifty examples below represents what remains when a four-letter name is removed from the beginning, middle, or end of a word and the resulting letters are run together. For example, o s o p h y is what we'd be left with if P H I L were taken away from P H I L o s o p h y. Column A consists of the residues when men's names have been excised, while Column B lists the same for women's names. How many missing monikers can you restore to their rightful locations?
Unique Generic Locks, Susan Thorpe
Unique Generic Locks, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
This is a sequel to Sequential Words (Word Ways 2005003), words made from two or more generic letter sequences, one following the other. In UKU .LELE the palindromic sequence UKU is followed by the tautonymic sequence LELE. In Unique Generic Locks the opposite applies, the generic sequences being interlocked. In OPINION the palindromic sequence OPO is interlocked with the tautonymic sequence ININ. Many words unlock in more than one way; fewer, like OPINION, have a unique generic lock and these are the ones with which we are concerned.
Words From Dice, A. Ross Eckler
Words From Dice, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Word games such as Boggle consist of letters on the faces of dice. Usually one rolls the dice and tries to form a word out of the upward-facing letters. However, another game leads to interesting logological challenges: draw the dice one at a time out of a bag, the first die then turned over to yield the first letter of a word, the second die to yield the second letter, and so on.