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Wordnim And Grundyword, Jeremiah Farrell
Wordnim And Grundyword, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
An interesting two-person game begins by choosing any set of words - say, for example, O, HIP, LLAMA, and PIASTER. Players alternately remove one or more letters from exactly one of the four words (all the letters in a word can be removed). Both the deleted letters and those remaining in the player's chosen word must be transposable into words themselves. The game ends when a player cannot make a legal move; the other player is the winner.
Further Fabled Phrases, Peter Newby
The Vowelindrome, Stephen Chism
The Vowelindrome, Stephen Chism
Word Ways
I have coined a new term in order to point out a phenomenon in the English language: the vowelindrome. A vowelindrome is a series of palindromes which result from the placement of a single letter immediately before and after each of the five vowels. After 26 trials and 24 errors, I have determined that there are only two vowelindromes, corresponding to the letters P and T.
Substitute-Letter Isogram Networks, Leonard Gordon
Substitute-Letter Isogram Networks, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
In past Word Ways issues, I have explored (Carrollian) word networks (Feb, May, Aug 1989), insertion-deletion networks (Aug 1990) and directed word chain networks (Aug, Nov 1991); I now study substitute-letter transposition (SLT) networks.
Long Trails Of Etymology, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Long Trails Of Etymology, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Sometimes, though we scarcely ever notice it, words give clear evidence of where they came from: arrive makes it obvious that Frenchmen reached the river in this way, while Greek helps one to see that harmony came from making a joint, making things fit together. See if you can name the words whos history is briefly summariezed in each of these cases. Get half of them right and you deserve a medal (originally a metal coin).
Word-Square Support: Part 1, A. Ross Eckler
Word-Square Support: Part 1, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In "How Many Words Support a Square?" in the May 1992 Word Ways, I definied the "support" of a word square to be the number of words required, on the average, to form a single word square, and showed that it could be experimentally calculated by means of the scaling formula.
As You Like The Quem Quaeritis Trope, Robert F. Fleissner
As You Like The Quem Quaeritis Trope, Robert F. Fleissner
Word Ways
The title of Shakespeare's first major comedy, "As you Like it," lends itself to word puzzlements, even though it is doubtfully that the author meant by this that everyone should take the title or the play itself simply as he or she sees it. The Epilogue reminds us of that, even as Rosalind urged the audience "to like as much of this play as please you" (12-13) {1}, so the dramatist himself meant that he was writing as he hoped people would like it.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 26 Issue 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 26 Issue 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
A Word-Sequence Game, Leonard Gordon
A Word-Sequence Game, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
One word can be changed into another in many ways: substitution of a letter (BET-BAT), addition of a letter (BAT-BATE), deletion of a letter (BATE-ATE), or a rearrangement of letters (ATE-TEA). The figure below can be used in conjunction with a spinner mounted on transparent plastic (obtainable from school supply stores) to make a game in which players in turn add words to a sentence in accordance with the spinner instructions, until someone can no longer continue and is the loser.
A New Presidential Rectangle, Darryl Francis
A New Presidential Rectangle, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
The May 1976 Word Ways published a 17x31 rectangle containing the (then) 33 different presidential surnames. WIth the election of Bill Clinton, I decided to update this rectangle. As shown below, 37 surnames (the previous 33, plus Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton) have been squeezed into a smaller 17x29 rectangle. Taking into account both the increased number of names and the smaller rectangle size, the overall improvement is 16.5 per cent.
Iouea: A Cretaceous Coup, Susan Thorpe
Iouea: A Cretaceous Coup, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Dmitri Borgmann, in "Vowel Patterns" in his book "Language on Vacation" (Scribner's, 1965), muses on the finding of what would be the 'ultimate triumph' a 5-letter word constructed from one each of the five vowels A, E, I, O, and U. If you turn to page 638 of "The Encyclopedia of Paleontology" (Dowden, Hutchinson& Ross, 1979), edited by Rhodes W. Fairbridge and David Jablonski, you will find IOUEA, the name of a Cretaceous fossil sponge genus!
Manual D'Enigmistica, Jesus Llado
Manual D'Enigmistica, Jesus Llado
Word Ways
My obsession for playing with words was ignited nearly ten years ago, with the discovery of a palindrome in a Julio Cortazar tale. Since then, I have devoted myself to accumulating historical material relating to word games, as well as to creating new ones. Undeniably, an inherent element of such an obsession is the opportunity offered to the writer to master language and manipulate it in new ways.
Will's Pennies, Leonard Gordon
Will's Pennies, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
The March 1993 issue of Games magazine "Pencilwise Extra" presented the following puzzle by Will Shortz. Cover one letter with a penny, then take the other six letters on the two lines intersecting at the point and anagram them into a word. For example, cover 15 and anagram 3+7+11+13+14+16. Shortz informs me that this puzzle was invented by Jules Roth and examples published in Tip-Top puzzle magazines in the 1960s.
5x5x5 Word Cubes By Computer, Donald E. Knuth
5x5x5 Word Cubes By Computer, Donald E. Knuth
Word Ways
Recently, I used a computer to look for 5x5x5 word cubes: symmetric patterns that spell five-letter words in rows, columns, and whatchamacallits (is there a name for vertical 1x1x5s?). As far as I know, the only previous example was constructed by Peter Graham and published in Omni in July 1987. But his solution uses REDAN and SARUM.
Base 27: The Key To A New Gematria, Lee Sallows
A Pangrammatic Six-Square, Jeff Grant
A Pangrammatic Six-Square, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
A large number of 4x4 word squares have been devised containing 16 different letters of the alphabet, a 5x5 square with 22 letters has also been constructed, and a 6x6 square with all but Q, X, and Z (see Word Ways, February 1980). If a square containing every letter of the alphabet (a pangrammatic square) is ever found, it will almost certainly be at the 6x6 level.
Mathematics Of Word Quality, Chris Long
The Alphabet Puzzle, Howard W. Bergerson
The Alphabet Puzzle, Howard W. Bergerson
Word Ways
For the Alphabet Puzzle, you need eight nickels, eight pennies and eight dimes, and a smooth surface to slide them on. The coins, all touching, must be lined up in eight nickel-penny-dime sets: NPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPDNPD.
The Proverbial Word, Peter Newby
The Proverbial Word, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Whilst the wisdom of a proverb remains constant, its examples change. This is true not only of the centuries-old saw, but even those coined within our lifetimes. "The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings" began life in the press box of a rodeo at Austin, Texas in 1975 as "The rodeo isn't over till the bull riders ride".
Through Tough Thorough Thought
Through Tough Thorough Thought
Word Ways
A most common complaint against the English language is the unpredictability of its pronunciation. A single sound may be represented by a slew of spellings. Likewise, a single spelling may conceal a plethora of pronunciations. As Ralph Beaman noted in the February 1975 Kickshaws, Webster's Third sanctions 60 variant pronunciations for TEMPERATURE. He also argued that W3 implicitly recognizes 70 ways to pronounce YES! However, the sequence OUGH is remarkable in that its nearly 30 pronunciations show the greatest diversity of sound.
The Burletta Of The Quest Nears, Ted Clarke
The Burletta Of The Quest Nears, Ted Clarke
Word Ways
My copy of Webster's Third, in one of its definitions, yields the following possibility for rebuttal: the act of exposing the falsity of, or opposition by countervailing proof to, some contention or argument.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Elvis For Everyone, Darryl Francis
Elvis For Everyone, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977 - already fifteen years ago! In recognition of this anniversary, I have put together this short article built around the name ELVIS. One of Elvis Presley's record albums (circa 1965) was called "Elvis for Everyone!". It struck me that there was probably a logological slant to this album title, unbeknownst to Elvis Presley and the RCA record company at the time. What the album title really meant was that the letters of ELVIS could combine in turn with every one of the 26 letters of the alphabet in turn to form a valid …
Five-Letter Overlap Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
Five-Letter Overlap Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
During the past two years, Word Ways has presented several of my articles on directed word chains. These are chains of overlapping words, directed in that they are read in one direction only.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue
Anagrammed Pseudonyms, O. V. Micaelsen
Anagrammed Pseudonyms, O. V. Micaelsen
Word Ways
Writers and other public figures have for centuries anagrammed their names to form pen names. The most famous example is VOLTAIRE, whose real name was Francis Marie Arouet, from which he anagrammed AROUET L.J. (Arouet the younger). In the old days, I and J were interchangeable, as were U and V.
A Premodern Palindromic History, Howard Richler
A Premodern Palindromic History, Howard Richler
Word Ways
It's a heavy burden I carry as a member of the most oppressive group on the planet. Yes, you guessed it. I am a White Heterosexual Adult Male or WHAM. Postmodernist deconstructionist analysis has proved that WHAMs are inherently biased.