From: adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.politics.kibo
Subject: Re: WIZARD - the Nostradamus of Movies!
Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:20:04 GMT
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In article <1i23cmINN150@mirror.digex.com> adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson) writes:
>>In article <1gnb87INNp40@gap.caltech.edu>, jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
>>
>>) WIZ-MATIC            A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M 
>>) Alphocryptic         1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 
>>) Decoder             26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 
>>
>>) (WizMAD,             N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
>>) Part 2)             14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
>>)                     13 12 11 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1
>
>I think, since everyone else has, that I shall take a crack at this myself
>and get back to you with the words I find.

Ok, as promised, I just wrote myself a program to check /usr/dict/words.
As I understand it, we are looking for any word which is Wiz-palindromic,
defined as normal palindromic, except that the matching letter at the tail
end of the word should be the mirror-image letter symetrically as shown
above.  Meaning that a=z, b=y, c=x, etc.  If I have this correctly, Wizard
does in fact still show up, as do all of the following.  Note that I left
in all the odd length words (except the single character ones) even though
strictly speaking, unlike normal palindromes, you can't rotate on a letter
because it will not match itself.

Here are my words:


AZ           bay          bevy         bey          bigotry      boy          
buy          by           cox          Croix        dew          Dow          
flu          get          ghost        GMT          got          grit         
gut          his          h's          IR           Lao          Leo          
lo           man          men          min          MN           NM           
oil          owl          Polk         RI           shish        tag          
tog          trig         tug          UHF          vee          verve        
vie          wad          wed          wizard       wold         world        
would        

Of these, only:
AZ           bevy         by           grit         h's          IR
lo           MN           NM           Polk         RI           trig
wizard       wold

strictly match (because of the middle character on odd-numbered ones).

Since many of these aren't really words, but state acronyms and such, the
only truly matching words are:

bevy         by           grit         wizard

(Pluse Polk and wold, which I don't know what they are, and trig, which I
think is really only an abreviation for trigonometry).

Now, having done all this totally useless and time-wasting stuff, I think
I'll post this and let someone else chew on it for a while.  :-)

Will.
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