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Elements Of Surprise, Susan Thorpe
Elements Of Surprise, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Elemental words are those that can be split into elemental symbols.
Apodosis Aposiopesis, Max Nelson
Apodosis Aposiopesis, Max Nelson
Word Ways
The apodosis is the consequence of a condition, such as "make lemonade." Aposiopesis is cutting off an expression midway, such as "if life give you lemons…" This quiz combines both. Thus, for example, for "Make Lemonade" the answer would be "If life gives you lemons."
Bordering States, Darryl Francis
Bordering States, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Using the postal codes of bordering states to construct words.
The Periodic Table Of The Alphabet, Solomon Golomb
The Periodic Table Of The Alphabet, Solomon Golomb
Word Ways
If that bearded nineteenth-century Russian, Dmitri Mendeleev, had turned his attention to the Science of Linguistics, instead of to the pseudo-scientific cult of Alchemy, then rather than merely discovering the Periodic Table of the Elements, he might have been led to invent the following "Periodic Table of the Alphabet."
Anagramatron, Darryl Francis
Anagramatron, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Colin Rothfels, a software developer, has created a bot that discovers unintentional anagrammatic tweets.
All The Brave New Palindromes, Jim Puder
All The Brave New Palindromes, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Recently in Word Ways, in Kickshaws and in the article presenting the entries in Dave Morice's geographical-names palindrome contest, there have appeared several remarkable new palindromes which it seems to me ought not to be let pass without being commented upon.
Anagram Quiz 18, . Anil
Solomon Wolf Golomb, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
Solomon Wolf Golomb, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
Word Ways
A memorial essay on frequent contributor to Word Ways, Solomon Golomb.
Reducing Phrases, Susan Thorpe
Reducing Phrases, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
The words of a phrase each lose a single letter to make another phrase.
Golomb's Gambits: Word Expansion, Solomon Golomb
Golomb's Gambits: Word Expansion, Solomon Golomb
Word Ways
A reprint article from Johns Hopkins Magazine, December 2, 2009
On The Horns Of A Cleft Stick, Don Hauptman
On The Horns Of A Cleft Stick, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
A Collection of mixed metaphors found in the media.
Alphametics, Steven Kahan
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
Colloquy, Editor Word Ways
Word Ways
A Collection of responses to previously published articles.
Letters Of Introduction, David Shaw
Two Sudoku Puzzles, Harold Jacobs
Assembly Lines -1, Steven Kahan
Assembly Lines -1, Steven Kahan
Word Ways
An assembly line results when single letters are placed in front of and at the rear of a four-letter word to produce a six-letter word. To illustrate, if and "S" and a "T" were positioned in the front and the rear of EXPO, respectively, a SEXPOT would emerge.
The Old Palindromical Equations Trick, Jim Puder
The Old Palindromical Equations Trick, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Actually, this magician's trick is "old" only in the sense that I worked it out some three decades ago; to my knowledge, it has never been used or published by anyone before now. This is a puzzle with no linguistic elements, but it may nonetheless be of some interest to palindrome-aware Word Ways readers.
Crossdromes, Lori Wike
Crossdromes, Lori Wike
Word Ways
A few years ago I began making up palindrome riddles for fiends in a game I call Name that Palindrome. The answer to each clue in the game is a palindrome phrase of two of more words. Example: Blue vehicle? Answer: Navy van.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Twinagrams, David Shaw
Twinagrams, David Shaw
Word Ways
A puzzle based on finding pairs of words that are anagrams of one another.
Common Common Nouns -1, Steven Kahan
Common Common Nouns -1, Steven Kahan
Word Ways
Each of the sixteen tetrads below displays a set of seemingly unrelated words. The key term here is "seemingly," since a conspicuously-absent common noun provides a link for the four.
The Longest N-Crash Word Lists, A. Ross Eckler
The Longest N-Crash Word Lists, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the November 1978 Word Ways, I introduced the concept of symmetric crash groups - sets of 2k words of 2k-1 letters apiece, in which each pair of words has exactly one crash (same letter in the same position, as E in rovEr and cruEt) and all letters in the set participate in crashes.
Homophonic Variations, Susan Thorpe
Homophonic Variations, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Sets of homophones that fall into three categories.
Some Elementary Questions, Darryl Francis
Some Elementary Questions, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Make a list of the names, symbols and atomic numbers of the chemical elements. Assign the values 1-16 to the letters A-Z. For each chemical element, calculate the sum of the 1 or 2 letter values forming its symbol. (You can ignore the chemical elements with 3-letter symbols.) Now see how quickly you can answer these questions.
What's The Significance?, Darryl Francis
Neighbours, Susan Thorpe
Neighbours, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Some words accommodate a pair of alphabetically-adjacent letters such as S and T. These can either be separate in a word or together in a word. In both cases, the letters can be in alphabetical (as Here) or reverse alphabetical, order.
Subtracting And Mixing, Susan Thorpe
Subtracting And Mixing, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
These words pairs fall into one of two categories. Either a letter is removed from the first word; the remaining letters are rearranged to make the second word Or a letter is removed from the second word; the remaining letters are rearranged to make the first word. The two words together make a phrase.
Another Three Doublets, Daniel W. Galef
Another Three Doublets, Daniel W. Galef
Word Ways
A set of three word ladder puzzles known as doublets.
Naked J-Birds, . Anil
Naked J-Birds, . Anil
Word Ways
A listing of 173 birds whose names begin with the letter J.
Poems, John Bannon