Bestsellers of 2016—Announcement from Panini Press SpecGram Vol CLXXVIII, No 3 Contents

Fly, Sigh, Sentence Ugly

Siva Kalyan & Trey Jones

Puzzlers, your task is to uncover the hidden meaning in the text below. Hint: it is definitely not “fly, sigh, sentence ugly,” though it may cause readers of Chinese to fly into a rage, sigh heavily, or proclaim the sentence to be quite ugly.

䒘飞廿乲尓叹句㳮戤丑曰尺㞨㓀曰吉㫐鬼金尸赟中户戒尿中火尺尸屰心水火卜戈丑曰隶㫐尓䒘冫㫢𣄽廿乲苩廿田白廿户叹百暋肿水户飞廿尺兀金竹苩廿戒箟沒木叹衵廿戉沖卜襮戈弓屲百弓鬼尸廿㐰卜,目廿苩廿戒箟沒木㫒曱中。

If you think you’ve figured it out, send your solutions to the editors of SpecGram by March 15th, 2017, and you could win some SpecGram merch.* The correct solution and winners, if any, will be announced in the April issue of Speculative Grammarian.


The solutions to last month’s puzzle, Mix & Match ‖, are provided here. The nine 9-letter words from the first puzzle are: intensity, elevators, honorific, assertive, hierogram, renewable, specifier, unsinking, designate; and the three additional words are: tenseness, narrowing, trivalent. For the second puzzle, the nine words are: diaphragm, addressee, teletyped, nonvalent, spherical, character, bomb squad, invariant, hellholes; and the three additional words are: aspectual, ideophone, preverbal. Each of the puzzlemeisters below will receive some moderately desirable SpecGram merch:

Margaret CrownSara KesslerDaniel Swanson

In addition, the following puzzlers have achieved the everlasting glory that comes with an honorable mention:

Thorsten SchröterLieselotte AnderwaldAndrew Lamont



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* Note that SpecGram Anti-Hoarding Guidelines stipulate that puzzle-related prizes cannot be won by anyone who has won a puzzle-related prize in the last two monthsthough honor, fame, and glory may still be seized on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.

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