 I'm a sucker for weird and esoteric tags, like these word squares someone has been writing in our neighborhood lately. Each square is a type of acrostic that can be read horizontally or vertically. For example: T R U S T 21 comments
@docpop (Link for the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square ) @docpop @docpop These are entertaining! There is a TAROT one, and I've seen others in esoteric magic books. Too fun. @docpop Fun! Some 20 years ago I wrote a program to generate all horizontal and vertical magic squares for a given word. It didn't look for backward readings, because it limited the amount of combinations too much... @docpop In a similar vein I like Watsky's three albums Complaint, Placement and Intention. COM PLA INT    @docpop You reminded me of an old #TongueTwister If you stick a stick across a stick Or stick a cross across a stick Or cross a stick across a stick Or stick a cross across a cross Or cross a cross across a stick Or cross a cross across a cross Or stick a cross stick across a stick Or stick a crossed stick across a crossed stick Or cross a crossed stick across a cross Or cross a crossed stick across a stick Or cross a crossed stick across a crossed stick Would that be an #Acrostic April 24 1891   @docpop nice. SF has a lot of puzzle folks and a history of many great puzzle hunts and games held throughout the Bay Area. I would've loved to encounter these when I last visited.  @docpop interesting, the heart-trend square is on wikipedia, but the rest are not. I wonder if the tagger came up with them on their own.
Did you find the sator-rotas square yet? It would fit on a building wall. |
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@docpop there's a mobile game called word(square) that is all about unscrambling puzzles to read like these