> > TODAY'S AUTHOR: XDRZW MSCQBX
> >
> > 'R DIJB NC, KYBTW,' JYRV TXYBTKZRUU, JXXFRQN BC XGBSRKYBX TRDJXZU USCD
> > TRJ KCDHYQRCQ'J YSDJ. 'MIB RU R ZRLX, R'ZZ JXX WCI YNYRQ MXUCSX WCI YSX
> > YJZXXH. R ECQ'B JBSYW URLX WYSVJ USCDWCIS ERQVCE.'
> > 'WCI DIJB QCB NC!' JTX YQJEXSXV, TCZVRQN TRD YJ URSD YJ TXS JBSXQNTB
> > YZZCEXV, 'WCI JTYZZ QCB, R BXZZ WCI.'

> > My purpose in giving this piece of code in WordsWorth was to demonstrate how
> > easily it could be deciphered by invoking isomorphic word coding patterns.

Congratulations to Marsha Gillis for solving the above and, above all, for
letting me know that she enjoyed doing so. It made my day! (:-))

I should make it clear that I didn't compose this code myself - it appeared in a
newspaper feature. Thus I had no pre-knowledge of the original text, to guide
me, so I immediately decided to try and decipher it using the isomorph coding
patterns that I'd presented in the previous issue of WordsWorth. I was most
certainly surprised by the ease at which it produced the answer, as explained in
the article as follows:-

"... tackled the decoding by looking ... at the longest word first, ... the
sixth coding TXYBTKZRUU ... having the isomorphic pattern 1234156788.
WordsWorth's listings ..., quickly produced ... 18 to match ... the R as eighth
letter ... appeared as a single-letter word ... HEATHCLIFF was the favourite of
the six possible contending words. ... common letters in the author's name
revealed E*IL* ****TE." The original code simply yielded its secret from then
on.

> Good test - my program couldn't manage it. I did it by giving the program
> hints one letter at a time (ie manually solving it with computer support
> for the drudge work). The program needs work for the cases where some
> words aren't in it's lexicon.

Of course, Graham; the contents of the lexicon are paramount. The name of
Cathy's boyfriend happened to be in WordsWorth's more than half a million words
and phrases.

> [Ted wanted me to run the square solving program on a word list of
> fixed size, with a seeded solution, so he could compare the speed
> a dawg-based program takes to his own relational database approach]
>
> Actually I was getting down to it for you earlier today when I realised
> that in our correspondence I didn't actually have the 'seed list' of
> words from the test tensquare you wanted me to try. Could you mail
> me the square again please?

DISCUSSING MISSATICAL ORANGUTANG
INCANTATOR ISOEMETINE RANGARANGA
SCARLATINA SOLSPRINGS ANDOLANDOL
CARNITINES SESTUNNELS NGOTANGOTA
UNLIKENESS AMPUTIEREN GALANGALAN
STATESWREN TERNITRATE URANGUTANG
SATINWEAVE ITINERATES TANGATANGA
ITINERATES CINERATORS ANDOLANDOL
NONESEVENT ANGLETERRE NGOTANGOTA
GRASSNESTS LESSNESSES GALANGALAN
[My own] [Jeff Grant] [D. Borgmann]

Regards,

Ted.