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Punk Quiz 6, A. Anil
A Bouquet For Gardner, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
A Bouquet For Gardner, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
Word Ways
Our tribute bouquet starts with several PELARGONIUMS: all but two of which are red, all but two of which are yellow, and all but two of which are green. The reader should be able to determine from this information just how many flowers are in our main bouquet.
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iv, Steve Kahan
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iv, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The fourth chapter in this continuing saga epitomizes the maxim that variety is the spice of life. Presented below are forty new word compressions resulting from the deletion of a person's name. This time, in addition to evenly distributing the genders of these individuals, the lengths of their names are not supplied.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Back Cover, Oscar Thumpbindle
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication and readers wishing to subscribe to the publication.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
Banking On Privacy, Dick Wolfsie
Banking On Privacy, Dick Wolfsie
Word Ways
What is the name of your favorite cartoon character?
Did that stump you for a moment? Are you teetering between Bart Simpson and Barney Rubble? If you are from my generation you might be torn between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Two Knights A-Jog, Jim Puder
Two Knights A-Jog, Jim Puder
Word Ways
On a 7 x 7 chessboard, a knight moves from the central square in the bottom row to the central square in the top two row in four jumps. There are a number of different routes it can take, and in his article "Three Jog Knight" in the August Word Ways, Harold Jacobs wondered whether readers could mentally envision the composite network formed by all of these routes without having to draw a picture of it.
How To Logologically Select The Vice-President, A. Ross Eckler
How To Logologically Select The Vice-President, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Presidential candidates use various criteria to select their running mates; usually, they pick ones who supposedly offset their political weaknesses. However, logological compatibility is never considered. It is the purpose of this article to remedy this omission.
Obama And Mccain Cross Words, A. Ross Eckler
Obama And Mccain Cross Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Many cross words are exchanged by the two presidential candidates and their adherents during an electoral campaign, and 2008 has been no exception. However, this is no documentation of their billingsgate, but instead a presentation of crossed words. OBAMA and MCCAIN form a cross in a five by six word rectangle.
More Distinct Dozens And Then Some, Steve Kahan
More Distinct Dozens And Then Some, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
As introduced in Volume 40, Number 2 of Word Ways, a "distinct dozen" is a twelve-letter word in which no single letter appears more than once. Herein are eight new distinct dozens, accompanied by eight distinct baker's dozens - thirteen-letter words with the same property. As an additional challenge, one fourteen-letter and one fifteen-letter member of the genre have also been included.
Still More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Still More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Another dip into the pool of consecutive palindromic triads! As in the previous two offerings in this genre (Word Ways, Volume 40, Numbers 3 and 4), you are faced with a restoration project. Using each of the fifty consecutive palindromic triads presented in the triad pool once and only once, construct a word, phrase or name by placing two of them back-to-back into the compressions listed below.
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.
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'.