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  2. Spiral puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The requested answer in that example therefore has 7 letters. The next clue then starts in box 27 and so on to the center of the spiral. Every square of a spiral puzzle has a single letter written into it by the solver, but the solution can be read in either direction.

  3. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Anacrostic may be the most accurate term used, and hence most common, as it is a portmanteau of anagram and acrostic, referencing the fact that the solution is an anagram of the clue answers, and the author of the quote is hidden in the clue answers acrostically.

  4. Anatree - Wikipedia

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    An anatree [1] is a data structure designed to solve anagrams. Solving an anagram is the problem of finding a word from a given list of letters. These problems are commonly encountered in word games like Scrabble or in newspaper crossword puzzles. The problem for the wordwheel also has the condition that the central letter appear in all the ...

  5. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    The answer to the first question is ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠, as is shown correctly by the "simple" solutions. But the answer to the second question is now different: the conditional probability the car is behind door 1 or door 2 given the host has opened door 3 (the door on the right) is ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠.

  6. Transposition cipher - Wikipedia

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    In general, transposition methods are vulnerable to anagramming—sliding pieces of ciphertext around, then looking for sections that look like anagrams of words in English or whatever language the plaintext was written in, and solving the anagrams. Once such anagrams have been found, they reveal information about the transposition pattern, and ...

  7. Anagrams (game) - Wikipedia

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    Anagrams (also published under names including Anagram, Snatch and Word Making and Taking) is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words. The game pieces are a set of tiles with letters on one side.

  8. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    Animation for the anagram "Listen = Silent" An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. [1] For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into the phrase "nag a ram". The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the ...

  9. ROT13 - Wikipedia

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    ROT13 is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the Latin alphabet.. ROT13 is a special case of the Caesar cipher which was developed in ancient Rome, used by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC. [1]