Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.nlang Subject: There never was a solution to LOONDERK. Message-ID: <723@dciem.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 12:15:10 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.723 Posted: Mon Feb 20 12:15:10 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 13:28:57 EST References: <668@ihuxq.UUCP>, <3295@utcsrgv.UUCP>, <160@ames-lm.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 20 Ken Perlow (ihuxq!ken)'s LOONDERK, as suggested by Dave Sherman (utcsrgv!dave), was never supposed to have a solution. (In case you missed James A. Woods (ames-lm!jaw)'s item, it was derived from the NAME Janet Kolodner and appeared in the SIGART newsletter in October 1983.) The original article appeared in the New York Times Magazine on August 21, 1983 (aren't indexes wonderful) and all you Hofstadter fans out there (whose public libraries save the Times) will find it worth reading. It begins thus: "Exploring the Labyrinth of the Mind", by James Gleick You're looking at a newspaper comic page and your eye falls on today's jumble. It's an anagram puzzle. You have to turn a few scrambled letters into a word. LOONDERK. A tough one. KRONDOLE. KNOODLER. Patterns form and reform in your mind. **Actually, in this case there isn't even a word there**, but at least the patterns look like words. Implausible combinations like EOKDNLRO and NRDOEOKL never leap to mind. Mark Brader