1. What do the following words have in common?
win,won,nor,fin,log,din,pun,ion,lug,boy,boa,bog,gun,fur,dug,bun,bus,mix loam,quay,joey,foam,oafs,bomb,guff,hymn,buff,lion,wily,wolf mocha,chain,munch,funny,bulls,mills,jimmy,fusion

2. What do these following words have in common?
be,ova,vex,nag,she,one,tang,rail,errs,ebbs, Pyrex,terra,Cheryl,abjurer

Consider the following string of 52 letters (a-z repeated).

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

1. For each of the words win, won, nor, ..., fusion, replace each letter with the letter 6 places down. "win" becomes "cot". Now replace each letter in "cot" with the letter 20 places down in the string. Then "cot" becomes "win". It's a win-win proposition!! Similarly for all the other words....("fusion" becomes "layout" (down 6), and "layout" becomes fusion (down 20).)

2. Take each of the letters in the words be, ova, vex, ..., abjurer, find its first occurrence in the string, then replace it with the letter 13 places down in the string. Then do the same to the resulting word. "be" becomes "or" and "or" becomes "be" again. "ova" becomes "bin" and "bin" becomes "ova"...."abjurer" becomes "nowhere", and "nowhere" becomes "abjurer".



Edited on December 15, 2003, 4:55 pm

Posted by Penny on 2003-12-15 16:27:06