Re: Mangled Message Matrix

James Dow Allen <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:05:53 GMT

Newsgroups	rec.puzzles,alt.brain.teasers,sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <[email protected]> posted:
> "Carl G." <[email protected]> posted:
> 
> > Your goal is to figure out the message hidden in the grid shown below....
> 
>       As it is...         not really inviting or tempting.

Asked and answered 21 years ago.  What Search do you use to conjure this up?
> 
> 
>        I think I'd like to see  a few  easier, smaller  examples.
>

Why not do the easy puzzle in the ill-fated "Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle" thread?

BTW, the mechanism in Carl Ginnow's OP reminds me a bit of the amazing
Burrows-Wheeler Transform sometimes used in text compression.

Cheers,
James