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Welcome To Ana-Links Puzzles, Pavel Curtis
Welcome To Ana-Links Puzzles, Pavel Curtis
Word Ways
What are Ana-Links puzzles? Ana-Links are a new kind of puzzle, invented by designer Pavel Curtis (aka Lambda), that combines aspects of jigsaws, wordplay, and mechanical puzzles in a unified, multi-stage solving experience.
Saltatory Evolution And The Vine Of Life, . Anil
Saltatory Evolution And The Vine Of Life, . Anil
Word Ways
Contrary to the gradualism of Lyell and Darwin, the fossil record shows that most evolution is saltatory, occurring in scattered leaps. I've studies three-letter organisms which by point mutation saltate (jump-evolve) into others, as yam into ram. You may doubt single mutations can turn plants into animals, but letters don't lie!
Biological Gematria, . Anil
Biological Gematria, . Anil
Word Ways
The gematria or alphanumeric values (AV) of the 837 biotypes in the M-W Pocket Dictionary ('06) range from 12 (bee=2+5+5) to 176 (whippoorwill).
Extract Of The Proceedings Of The Palindrome Society Annual Convention, Richard Canty
Extract Of The Proceedings Of The Palindrome Society Annual Convention, Richard Canty
Word Ways
Good Evening, fellow palindromists. I am Professor Emord Nilap, the delegate from Albania, and I'll be your M.C. for this occasion.
The Proper Commons, J. James Mancuso
The Proper Commons, J. James Mancuso
Word Ways
The challenge is to create prose using capitonyms -- words that are both proper nouns and common nouns, and write parallel sentences. You must use them all as proper nouns in one, and then as common nouns, in the same order, in the companion sentence.
Long One-Syllable Words, Jeff Grant
Long One-Syllable Words, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
There are quite a few common 9-letter words pronounced with a single syllable.
The Long And The Short Of It, Susan Thorpe
The Long And The Short Of It, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
The Long And The Short Of It is devoted to long and short vowel sounds of the same vowel, in various guises. No extraneous vowels are allowed.
Hugo Brandt Corstius (1935-2014), Joop Van Der Vaart
Hugo Brandt Corstius (1935-2014), Joop Van Der Vaart
Word Ways
Being one of the probably very few Dutch subscribers to Word Ways magazine (In fact, Karen and Jerry have informed me that I am now the captain of an almost abandoned ship, being the sole remaining Dutch subscriber), I feel that the reader of Word Ways should be notified that Dutch author, mathematician and master of word play Hugo Brandt Corstius, sadly passed away at the age of 78 on February 28th 2014. Furthermore, I feel that you should know more about him than you might know already.
Automynorcagrammatical Raven, Matt Franklin
Automynorcagrammatical Raven, Matt Franklin
Word Ways
in 1975, Howard Bergerson published an article "Automynocagrams" in Word Ways. The challenge at the end is to write an "automynorcagrammatical Raven". Here is my (short) attempt, begun in 1975 and put down many times between now and then.
Some Possible Items On The Menu At A Mathematics Restaurant, Chris Morgan
Some Possible Items On The Menu At A Mathematics Restaurant, Chris Morgan
Word Ways
What might you find on the menu down at the Mathematics Restaurant? Here are some possibilities.
Light Verse: I Rhyme, Therefore I Amb, Jerry Dorbin
Elemental Words Revisited, Tristan Miller
Elemental Words Revisited, Tristan Miller
Word Ways
The names and abbreviations of the chemical elements have been a perennial topic in Word Ways, going back the very first issue.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the quizzes and puzzles contained in this issue.
"Man Should Not Scamper With The Unkown!" A New Chrestomathy Of Linguistic Miscellanea, Don Hauptman
"Man Should Not Scamper With The Unkown!" A New Chrestomathy Of Linguistic Miscellanea, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Numerous critics and curmudgeons have inveighed against the concept of Facebook "friends," rightly pointing out that hundreds of people can't be one's friends in any meaningful sense of the word friendship.
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo., Lucas Church
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo., Lucas Church
Booth
You said it was a linguist’s jerkoff session; the same word repeated eight times; gibberish; baby talk; a bon mot for bad parties; a possible Jeopardy answer, you Alex Trebek and me the bookish school teacher from Des Moines; but it was really just homework: breaking down pieces of an echo.
"S" Entials, Steve Kahan
Light Verse, Jerry Dorbin
Anagram Quiz 13, . Anil
Minimalist Crossword Puzzle, Daniel W. Galef
Anagram Quiz 14, . Anil
Speaking Mathish, Daniel W. Galef
Speaking Mathish, Daniel W. Galef
Word Ways
Mathematics, as it has often been noted, is its own language.
Garden Paths, Daniel Galef
Transposing The Days And Months, Jeff Grant
Transposing The Days And Months, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
This is an attempt to provide single-word transposals for all the days and months.
It's Kaos, Get Smart!, Stuart Kidd
It's Kaos, Get Smart!, Stuart Kidd
Word Ways
Following the second world war a little ditty began circulating amongst NATO staff to assist them with the barrage of difficulties, inconsistencies and general chaos in the the spelling and pronunciation of English.
Magic On A Transposal Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic On A Transposal Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
A solution to the transposal puzzle located on the back cover.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.
Four Is The Cosmic Number, Erik Waingarten
Four Is The Cosmic Number, Erik Waingarten
Word Ways
Thirteen, eight, five, four, four is the cosmic number.