Timeline for The horrible wordsearch: Can you decypher the word-search puzzle to find the final clue?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 10:48 | history | edited | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited in the actual answer so the accepted answer is complete
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 10:13 | vote | accept | BmyGuest | ||
| Dec 2, 2014 at 4:07 | comment | added | xnor |
Great start! I've been trying to make sense of why those 12 letters are chosen to be swapped (ACDEILNORSTY), 12 are revealed (BFGHKMPQUV), and 4 are neither (JWXZ). They seem far from random: the revealed ones are common letters, but the traditional ETAOIN SHRDLU has a U rather than a Y. I thought of some proxies for commonness, but none of them fit either: Scrabble value, Morse code length, dots in Braille. The last two would also have a notion of complementation.
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| Dec 1, 2014 at 21:26 | comment | added | Warlord 099 | @Aioros Looking at the words list I was all but positive the "B___KF____" had to be breakfast, so I just looked to try and make breakfast appear in the puzzle. | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | BmyGuest | Yes, perfect first part. Don't forget the clues and you'll get further... +1 from me | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 20:57 | comment | added | Aioros | Man, I've been looking for the right letters to swap the whole day. How did you find the right ones? | |
| Dec 1, 2014 at 20:10 | history | answered | Warlord 099 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |