Francis Gurtowski

Crypto Crossword Francis Gurtowski

Fill in the solution given two layers of the solution in turn, given moreover first the palettes of the spellings and then their alphabetized anagrams. In effect, you get two at bats against each puzzle. The first layer reveals the contents of the tail cells in niches oriented both ways, across and down. The second layer reveals the contents of the caboose cells in niches oriented one way or the other, across or down, not both. Fill in the solution given two layers of the solution in turn, given moreover first the palettes of the spellings and then their alphabetized anagrams. In effect, you get two at bats against each puzzle. The first layer reveals the contents of the tail cells in niches oriented both ways, across and down. The second layer reveals the contents of the caboose cells in niches oriented one way or the other, across or down, not both. Beyond Anagrams ISBN-13: 979-8585854880 is the definitive reference for Crypto Crossword. By "palette" I mean a spelling shorn of duplicate instances of letters. Such essences are as far beyond anagrams as anagrams are beyond words. The twenty-six letters of the alphabet are the ultimate palette, but I know of no such word employing at least one instance of each. The longest palettes I could find are fourteen letters in length: abcehlmorstuxy abceilmnorstuy abdeilmorstuxy acdefhilmnortu acdeghilmortuy acefilmnoprstv aceghilmnoprty aceghilnoprsuy acegilmorstuvy acehilmnoprtuy adeghilmnostyz adehilnoprstuz adeilmnorstuvy aeghilmnortuwy bcehilmnoprsty cdeghilmnopruy ceghilnoprstuy. For example, bcehilmnoprsty is the palette of this threesome: comprehensibility incomprehensibility intercomprehensibility. I culled 74,582 mid-length words (from five to twelve letters in length) from a batch of 85,086 words (from two to twenty-five letters long). I use this curatorial subset of words first as clues and ultimately as solutions in a new genre of games of crisscrossed words. The 10,504 words dropped are too short or too long for my purposes. I prefer the gamesmanship within the Goldilocks Zone of words. I am left with 42,356 palettes, 69,563 anagrams and 74,582 words. The entire palette-anagram-word hierarchy is enumerated in this reference volume. As a last resort, look up in the forest of trees the clues to the aforementioned puzzles.