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- From: adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson)
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- Subject: Re: WIZARD - the Nostradamus of Movies!
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 18:43:34 GMT
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- In article <HERMIT.92Dec18060503@am.ucsc.edu> hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
- >In article <1gnb87INNp40@gap.caltech.edu>, jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
- >
- >) WIZ-MATIC A B C D E F G H I J K L M
- >) Alphocryptic 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
- >) Decoder 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14
- >
- >) (WizMAD, N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- >) Part 2) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
- >) 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
- >
- > Ervin eve evolve f flourish
- >Longest wizard palindrome: flourish
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- How does Flourish work? As I see it, we end up with FLOU being palindromic,
- RI being so, and SH being so. But the whole point of WIZARD is that W=D,
- I=R and Z=A in rot-wiz. (Sort of like rot-13 but sideways, kinda).
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- I think, since everyone else has, that I shall take a crack at this myself
- and get back to you with the words I find.
-
- Cheers!
-
- Will.
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