A quotation from Jerry Seinfeld was compressed by removing the spaces and punctuation. Then it was divided into twelve groups of six letters each. Each group was then cyclically permuted (possibly zero units, so unchanged, in a given case). Finally the groups were placed in a random order.
The groups are:
YHEONL ATPEOP EOFTON VETHEA INKING EWEENC
DOFEVI SABOOK LTHTIL CESPIE ARESLE STOREI
Can you reconstruct the original quotation?
From Page-a-Day Amazing Mind Benders Calendar 2014, Workman Publishing, New York, by Puzzability (Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein, Robert Leighton), puzzle for September 28.
I made a permutation computer program and played around with it.
(At first I thought that "cyclic permutation" meant cycling "through the alphabet". Ah, that program didn't work out too well.)
ABOOKS TOREIS ONEOFT HEONLY PIECES OFEVID ENCEWE HAVETH ATPEOP LEARES TILLTH INKING
8 12 3 1 10 7 6 4 2 11 9 5
Edited on November 7, 2019, 11:33 am
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