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The New Model Five-Jog Knight
Now lumbering into the lists comes the New Model Five-Jog Knight--no, not some odd-gaited Cromwellian cavalryman, but a new, improved, larger,...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Something in the air
(The following ditties parody the popular songs "Pennies from Heaven," "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" and "Bye, Bye, Blackbird,"...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Knight's challenge answered
Only one solution was received for the Five-Jog Knight puzzle contest posed in the November Word Ways. Submitted in mid-December, editor Jeremiah...
Word Ways, 02/01/09 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Two knights a-jog
On a 7 x 7 chessboard, a knight moves from the central square in the bottom row to the central square in the top row in four jumps. There are a...
Word Ways, 11/01/08 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Insiders
I first became aware of this particular wordplay recreation when I noticed its use in the Nov. 8, 1998 New York Times Crossword puzzle, which was...
Word Ways, 08/01/08 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Spoonergrams II
One, two, three, four! A, B, C, D! One, two, three, four! A, B, C, D! Fun? Woo tea-throw'r Day "E," B. C.: Thrun Foo; we tour...
Word Ways, 11/01/07 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Spoonergrams
Spoonerisms are usually thought of as involving the switch of initial sounds in a pair of words, as in prairie schooner/scary pruner. But as Susan...
Word Ways, 08/01/07 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Return of the palimerick
In the February 2007 Kickshaws, Dave Morice presented what was probably an entirely new logological object, a limerick of his own devising which...
Word Ways, 05/01/07 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Honorable mentions
It would obviously be hard to overstate the impact that Word Ways has had on the development of the field that it named, recreational linguistics,...
Word Ways, 05/01/07 by Jim Puder · More from publication -
Top-eye, the peyote man
I was much impressed by Susan Thorpe's article "Constrained Pyramids" in the February issue of Word Ways. Her constrained word pyramids seems...
Word Ways, 02/01/06 by Jim Puder · More from publication
