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I saw a Sator square sticker in Philadelphia once--should have taken a picture. It's cool to see people are still doing this 2,000 years later.

(Link for the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sator_Square )

@docpop ooh

There's an ancient Roman word square like that from Pompeii that goes

ROMA
OLIM
MILO
AMOR

@docpop #streetart #graphomancy

@docpop These are entertaining! There is a TAROT one, and I've seen others in esoteric magic books. Too fun.

@docpop My first thought was that this was some kind of graffiti world game.

@docpop Turns out trying to create these makes chatGPT go batshit.

P A N E
A R E A
N E A R
E A R N

Then much later:

F L A R E
L A M E R
A M E B A
R E B U S
E R A S E

@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...

https://github.com/zkg/sator-arepo/tree/master

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@grammargirl needs to see this!

@docpop In a similar vein I like Watsky's three albums Complaint, Placement and Intention.

COM PLA INT
PLA CEM ENT
INT ENT ION

@docpop they are very satorsfactory indeed.

@docpop Taggers - ancient wordsmiths.

@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

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mind
idea
neat
data

is pretty kickass imo.

@docpop I appreciate when street artists draw mathematically correct graffiti

@docpop these are freaking cool

@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.

I spotted a few more "Magic Acrostic Squares" by Sapien (aka Sape). #SFGraffiti