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Mathemagical Birdhouse, Cassidy Tiberi

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A class project using Gardner's Mathemagical Birdhouse.

Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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A word puzzle, add a vowel to each letter set to make a word.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of reader's responses to previously published articles.

Isogram Transdeletion Pyramid, Alex J. Quiz

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There are many word articles on isograms and transdeletion pyramids, but there are none which talk about them combined, the isogram transdeletion pyramid.

Middlemarch, Susan Thorpe

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We begin with a word having an odd number of letters. The middle letter, a consonant, has been given its marching orders, leaving behind another word.

Word Ways V.53 No.1 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

X Marks The Animal, . Anil

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A listing of the names of animals that begin with the letter X.

The Martin Game, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

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A game.

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

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A regular column.

Homophonic Letter Groups, Susan Thorpe

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Listings of letter groups that have the same sound, namely Homophonic Letter Groups. These fall into two categories:

1. Those which are pronounced as when reciting the letters of the Alphabet A B C etc

2. Those which are NOT pronounced as the letters of the Alphabet

Zhat Ting Dere, Glenn D. Dahlem

Word Ways

A poem.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 1

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Front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

The Oracle Of Opprobrium: Reinhold Aman, 1936-2019, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A look at the life of Reinhold Aman, known as "the oracle of opprobrium", "the Noah Webster of verbal aggression", and "the world's foremost authority on Swearing", who died on March 2, 2019 at the age of 82.

Hex Game, Ashley Post

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A game created for a class project.

Numerically Palindromic Words, Susan Thorpe

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A listing of words whose letters create palindromes when written out in numbers based on their order in the alphabet.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 52, Issue 4

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The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

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A regular column.

Rearrangements, Darryl Francis

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Rearranging letters from sets of words into new sets of words.

Isopangrams, Darryl Francis

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An isopangram is considered a perfect pangram and uses all 26 letters of the alphabet once and only once.

A Short Story In Alphametics, Udo Wermuth

Word Ways

Solve the short story alphametic math puzzles.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of readers' responses to past articles.

Cursive Russian-English Homoglyphs And Homographs, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A look at Russian-English homoglyphs and homographs from the cursive alphabet.

Installation Of "A Mark Was Made" Story Wall Completed As Part Of Ped Mall Project

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A reprint of an internet articles about an installation honoring 17 Iowa City residents who have had an impact on the city including Dave Morice, a prolific Word Ways contributor.

Eating By Numbers, Susan Thorpe

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Find the numerical total of a word or phrase and add the digits of the resulting sum together until you reach a single digit result.

Anagram Couplets, . Anil

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These rhymes are polyanagrams of their titles, or else couplets within a single anagram of the title.

Mary Had Four Little Lambs, . Anil

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Four parodies of the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Jabbowocky Or: Lipolating Nonsense, Tikki Saram

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The author rewrites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" by removing all instances of the letters "l" and "r".

Adding Two Like Letters, Susan Thorpe

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A given word is split into two parts which may, or may not, have the same number of letters. A common letter (A to Z) is positioned at the front of each of the two groups of letters to form two words which, ideally, make a 2-word phrase.

Miami Sequences, Susan Thorpe

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An exercise in removing a specific pattern of letters from a word to form a new word.

More Country Transpositions, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A continuation of last issue's article with even more transposals for the names of countries of the world.