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"Carl G." <cginnowzerozeroone@microprizes.com> posted:

Your goal is to figure out the message hidden in the grid shown below. The message was written row by row into the grid (wrapping the text at the end
of each row) and then the letters in each of the columns were sorted into alphabetical order.

(This grid is best viewed using a fixed-width font)

E F H A C C D A D B
G T I E N D E E D N
I U R K S N E E I S
O _ S O T P F I N Y
T _ S S U _ I O R '
T _ Y U Y _ M T Y ,
_ _ _ _ _ _ O V _ .

The underscore characters represent spaces. The grid consists of seven rows and ten columns.

Carl G.

As it is... not really inviting or tempting.


I think I'd like to see a few easier, smaller examples.

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HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

"Carl G." <cginnowzerozeroone@microprizes.com> posted:

Your goal is to figure out the message hidden in the grid shown below. The message was written row by row into the grid (wrapping the text at the end of each row) and then the letters in each of the columns were sorted into alphabetical order.

(This grid is best viewed using a fixed-width font)

E F H A C C D A D B
G T I E N D E E D N
I U R K S N E E I S
O _ S O T P F I N Y
T _ S S U _ I O R '
T _ Y U Y _ M T Y ,
_ _ _ _ _ _ O V _ .

The underscore characters represent spaces. The grid consists of seven rows
and ten columns.

Carl G.

---- As it is... ( not really inviting or tempting. )


I think I'd like to see a few easier, smaller examples. --like....




I_.___
_a_are
amhdve

Un-sort each Column, to restore [.............] _______________________________________________
To__b_
_r_bee
otonot
_______________________________________________
A_e!!!
a_of_c
ekpiec
_______________________________________________
Be_!!!
hetb_l
liteut
_______________________________________________

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HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

"Carl G." <cginnowzerozeroone@microprizes.com> 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
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