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A Pangrammatic Diamond, Jeff Grant
A Pangrammatic Diamond, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In "Word Ways Challenges" in the February 1979 issue, Philip Cohen and the editor asked "Can any form (diamond, pyramid) contain all 26 letters?" This well-nigh-impossible challenge has now fallen, with the double nine-diamond presented below.
Transaddable Letter Groups, Alan Frank
Transaddable Letter Groups, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarged groups can be transposed into words? More interestingly, what is the most fecund such letter group? This is an example of a logological problem best attacked by computer. To illustrate the possibilities, I list below the best letter groups of two through eight letters which can be enlarged to words found in the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary.
As Easy As Pie, Walter Shedlofsky
As Easy As Pie, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Case: Pierce, Samson, male, Caucasion, age 69.
Officer in Charge: Police Lieutenant Arthur Jamison
Cause of Death: Bullet fired into right temple.
Report of Death: Sergeant Jackson received call from Dr. Steven Mayhew, Resident Physician, Statler Place, that he had found Pierce dead during his early morning round of patients.
Good-Bye, Dr. Wombat!, Harry B. Partridge
Good-Bye, Dr. Wombat!, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
Wombat Manor had always had an air of distinction that set it apart from any other house, but now in the dying afternoon sunshine, even after a surprise Southern California September thunderstorm, its windows blankly reflected the light of the declining daystar and seemed to have lost their whilom sparkle.
Amalgamate, Chemist!, Solomon W. Golomb
Amalgamate, Chemist!, Solomon W. Golomb
Word Ways
When Douglas Hofstadter took over Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American, he changed the name from MATHEMATICAL GAMES to METAMAGICAL THEMAS. The new name is an anagram of the old one, that is, a permutation or reordering of the same set of letters. This naturally suggests the question of how easy it is to find an anagram on these letters which "makes sense."
The Letter Rebus (Part 1), A. Ross Eckler
The Letter Rebus (Part 1), A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The term rebus has, during the past century, been applied to several different types of word puzzles. This multipart article examines the varieties of the letter rebus, a puzzle form which has been extensively featured in the pages of the Enigma, the official publication of the National Puzzlers' League, during the past sixty years. In fact, counting such varieties as the suber (or reversed rebus) and the rebus alternade, a hybrid puzzle combining the basic rebus with a puzzle taking each nth letter from a word, there have been more than 5500 such puzzles published.
Jejuniana, Edward R. Wolpow
Jejuniana, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
When Galen in the second century carried out autopsies, he found that the second portion of the small intestine was usually empty, and called this part of the gut the jejunum, meaning empty, dry. We have a few English words with the same root.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to this publication.
Russian Palindromes, Haim Kilov
Russian Palindromes, Haim Kilov
Word Ways
The following article by V. Khromov, entitled Palindromes: Sound Play, or a Regular Case of Sound Distribution, originally appeared in the Nauka i Zhizn of 1970 (No. 9) Various amplifications of the material in the article for the benefit of the American reader appear in brackets.
No-Holds-Barred Scrabble, Alan Frank
No-Holds-Barred Scrabble, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Word Ways has published numerous high-scoring single-move Scrabble games during the past decade; readers should enjoy this spoof of the genre.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
There Once Was A Digital Limerick, John Henrick
There Once Was A Digital Limerick, John Henrick
Word Ways
The concept of digital verse was defined and the possibility demonstrated a year ago in the February 1983 Word Ways. The utilization of digits and arithmetic operators to encrypt a limerick was conceived by Leigh Mercer and displayed most ingeniously in an example published by Maxey Brooke in Word Ways in the February 1980 issue. The example of digital verse consisted of a single stanza which was, in fact, a palindrome, but not, alas, a limerick. And, although Leigh Mercer's limerick was a marvel of conciseness in its adroit use of integers and mathematical symbols, it did not exemplify …
Animal Crackers, A. Ross Eckler
Animal Crackers, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Are you tired of anagram puzzles which give you the clue "colorless poet" for DRAB BARD, or "kingly scowl" for REGAL GLARE? If so, the following skull-crackers should be more to your taste -- no anagrammed pairs have less than seven letters each, and one even reaches the plateau of fifteen. The puzzles are arranged in groups with the shortest phrases first. Answers are given in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue, but in addition Hints are given overleaf; the letters entering into each anagram are arranged in alphabetical order. (But do try to solve them first …
Ibmphasis On Jargon, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Ibmphasis On Jargon, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Word Ways
Language-watchers have long since been alerted to the new bits (and bytes) of the computer age. In Playboy magazine for July 1983, John Sack tells of children at computer camps sending home a thousand kisses like this.
Czech These Homographs - Please!, Jay Ames
Czech These Homographs - Please!, Jay Ames
Word Ways
Running a rubious orb over the corpus of strange words in my Czech-French Dictionary compiled by Vladko Buben, I was startled to see a considerable number of "English" words and thought they might be worth sharing with other word-collectors. I have listed only those words which do not seem to be direct borrowings, and have indicated with an asterisk words that are normally capitalized in English. Enjoy 'em!
Kickshaws, Faith Eckler
More N-Tile Scrabble Records, Kyle Corbin
More N-Tile Scrabble Records, Kyle Corbin
Word Ways
Word Ways readers have been investigating in SCRABBLE crossword game the highest possible combined scores for the first few turns. The records for one through six turns were published in the November 1982 Word Ways. Now I have completed work on the seven- through ten-turn records. Afterwards, I give the details of the seven- through ten-turn scores. In the diagrams, I use asterisks to indicate blank tiles. All records follow the current SCRABBLE crossword game rules, summarized in the May 1981 Word Ways.
Poetical Ponders, Thomas J. Palumbo
Poetical Ponders, Thomas J. Palumbo
Word Ways
The fill-in poem is a type of literary amusement popular in the late eighteenth century. Note that the fourth line in each quatrain does not rhyme with the second line, but if you substitute the appropriate word for each parenthesized word or phrase, it will rhyme and scan. Place the answers under each other, and you will have created an acrostic whose first and last letters reading downward generate the name of a famous soccer player.
Colloquy
Word Ways
Webster's Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received up to a month prior to publication of an issue will appear in it.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 17 Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 17 Number 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Publication information including table of contents.
Logology By Computer, Alan Frank
Logology By Computer, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Computers have the potential for playing many roles in the field of recreational linguistics. Six general categories are:
a) making a list of all words with specified orthographic characteristics,
b) managing logological data bases,
c) acting as a practice opponent in world games,
d) solving formal word puzzles such as crosswords, double-crostics, and the types dealt with by the National Puzzlers' League and Games magazine,
e) composing such puzzles,
f) typesetting material for magazines of recreational linguistics.
The Great Oxymoron Contest, Bo Mitchell
The Great Oxymoron Contest, Bo Mitchell
Word Ways
An oxymoron is defined by Willard Espy in the Garden of Eloquence (Harper and Row, 1983) as "a figure in which an epithet of contrary meaning is added to a word". He gives several examples, including "their love was bittersweet, "wise folly, and "a deafening silence".
Dial M For Mind-Tickler, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Dial M For Mind-Tickler, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
In these pages over the years, I have contributed to you entertainment with a series of articles on various aspects of British and American English, most often couching my material in quiz format. The answers to these quizzes have appeared at the back of the issue in which the quizzes were printed.
A Word Square Update, Maxey Brooke
A Word Square Update, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
In 1974, I sent the editor a home-made Christmas card summarizing most of what was known about word squares to that time. To my surprise, he published it as "A Survey Of Small Squares" in the May 1975 Word Ways, along with several additions for which he gave me credit.
Typewriter Recreations, Eugene Ulrich
Typewriter Recreations, Eugene Ulrich
Word Ways
The standard arrangement of the letters on a typewriter and the way the hands and fingers are used to type offer possibilities for a variety of linguistic investigations. We assume the typist uses the standard finger pattern given below.
Overlapping Word Squares, Edward R. Wolpow
Overlapping Word Squares, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
The single word square uses the same words across as down, and several articles about these have appeared in Word Ways, usually dealing with the construction of the largest possible square made of respectable English words. This article will examine single word squares that can be made to overlap. The smallest possible word square that can be made to partially overlap with another one is of size 2x2. There are, in fact, three distinct ways for two such squares to overlap, and examples for each are shown.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Back cover, including instructions to authors who wish to contribute to Word Ways.
3330 Pangrams, A. Ross Eckler
3330 Pangrams, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A pangram is a set of words in which each letter of the alphabet appears exactly once. Various people, including such distinguished mathematicians as the English logician Augustus De Morgan and the American information theorist Claude Shannon, have searched for pangrams that can be arranged in a meaningful sentence, but all efforts have required extensive explanations of the message the sentence is attempting to convey. In view of these difficulties, it seems prudent to abandon this additional requirement, regarding a pangram as a list of words and nothing more.