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Spices Of Life, Steve Kahan
Spices Of Life, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
A quiz in which letters are subtracted from one set of words and added to another, allowing the letters of both sets to be re-arranged into the names of spices.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 50, Number 1, Editor Word Ways
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 50, Number 1, Editor Word Ways
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Front cover and publication information for this issue, including table of contents.
A. Ross Eckler, Jr. August 29, 1927-December 9, 2016, Editor Word Ways
A. Ross Eckler, Jr. August 29, 1927-December 9, 2016, Editor Word Ways
Word Ways
An obituary and tribute to a Word Ways former editor and contributor.
Anagrammatical Clusters, Steve Kahan
Anagrammatical Clusters, Steve Kahan
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A challenge to discover anagrammatical clusters based on clues provided.
Conundrums: What's The Difference?, Will Shortz
Conundrums: What's The Difference?, Will Shortz
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Out of 1,500 entries, the author shares his favorite "what is the difference between…?" conundrums that involve the transposition of words.
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
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Readers' responses to recently published articles.
Orchard Problems In Wonderland, Jeremiah Farrell
Orchard Problems In Wonderland, Jeremiah Farrell
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An explanation of word problems known as "orchard problems" followed by examples based on Alice in Wonderland, including a challenge for readers to solve.
Nihonium Moscovium Tennessine Oganesson, Darryl Francis
Nihonium Moscovium Tennessine Oganesson, Darryl Francis
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An explanation of the names of four newly discovered elements and logological observations about them.
Anagram Quiz 20, . Anil
Equally Spaced Bigrams, Susan Thorpe
Equally Spaced Bigrams, Susan Thorpe
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Here are all the bigrams whose letters progress 1 to 24 places along the alphabet, along with words which can be made by linking them together.
Words Containing Smaller Words In Consecutive Order, Lawrence Somer
Words Containing Smaller Words In Consecutive Order, Lawrence Somer
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Many words can be split into smaller words by reading the letters consecutively and dividing the letters at various points.
Derived Palindromes Three Months Later, T.A. Hall
Derived Palindromes Three Months Later, T.A. Hall
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An expansion on the subject of derived palindromes, this time looking at moving a part of a letter at one edge to a letter on the opposite edge.
Answers And Solutions, Editor Word Ways
Answers And Solutions, Editor Word Ways
Word Ways
Answers and solution to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.
A Keep-Away Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell
Rhyming Synonyms 2, . Anil
Rhyming Synonyms 2, . Anil
Word Ways
These are the longer pairs and clusters, as defined and delimited in the first article.
Looking Backwards, . Anil
Looking Backwards, . Anil
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A quiz that involves spotting geographical names that are hidden backwards.
Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways
Alphabet Spiral - 1, Steven Kahan
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 49, Number 4, Editor Word Ways
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 49, Number 4, Editor Word Ways
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information including the table of contents.
Derived Palindromes, T.A. Hall
Derived Palindromes, T.A. Hall
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The purpose of this article is to present a relatively small set of examples illustrating the three types of derived palindromes.
Alphametics, Steven Kahan
Martin Gardner And Marilyn Vos Savant - A Not Always Easy Collaboration, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
Martin Gardner And Marilyn Vos Savant - A Not Always Easy Collaboration, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
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A brief account of both the collaboration and sometimes disagreement between writers Martin Gardner and Marilyn vos Savant.
In Time Of Need, One Has Need Of Time: More Spoonerisms And Transposition Puns, Original And Otherwise., Don Hauptman
In Time Of Need, One Has Need Of Time: More Spoonerisms And Transposition Puns, Original And Otherwise., Don Hauptman
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A collection of original puns.
Anagram Quiz 19, . Anil
Strange Words - And Beyond, Darryl Francis
Strange Words - And Beyond, Darryl Francis
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Finding the shortest word that can be spelled out using the letters in the first and last names of well-known people.
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
Word Ways
Reader's responses to previously published articles.
Etaoin Shrdlu Words, . Anil
Etaoin Shrdlu Words, . Anil
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Etaoin shrdlu, the classic 12 most frequent letters, make up 46% of the alphabet and are the first letters on 55% of Web3 pages, so one would expect lots of words to contain these letters alone.
Initial-Friendly And Friendly Initial Letters, . Anil
Initial-Friendly And Friendly Initial Letters, . Anil
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Which letters form words with the most added initial letters? Excluding abbreviates, proper nouns and affixes, I answer the question from monograms to tetragrams.
A Different Type Of Compound Word, Susan Thorpe
A Different Type Of Compound Word, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Transposing chemical compounds into words.
Hidden States, Darryl Francis
Hidden States, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
A look at words from which names of states can be spelled out.