A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle?

rmo101 asks: "A story in the Times reports a solution to the ten letter acrostic square puzzle that has defied solution since the ancient Greeks. An acrostic puzzle comprises a square of letters where the arrangement of letters from words written in rows result in the same words appearing vertically in the same order. The ten letter solution, however, is not accepted by all as one of the words does not appear in a dictionary. Sounds like a puzzle in search of a fiendish algorithm for interrogating a dictionary. The ancient Greeks believed that the solver of the ten letter puzzle would become immortal. Anyone fancy their chances?" Of course, the Times article doesn't report the proposed ten-letter solution (they show a five-letter one), but they do mention the controversial word: "nonesevent". Are any of you interested in trying your hand at a better solution?

Comments

Jut make a program...

[4D6963]

Couldn't one make a program that could use a whole dictionnary to try to make one of these, and try lots of dictionnaries of different languages?

If one could have such a completly-automated program (because Clark's wasn't) and tried many dictionnaries, how knows...

Maybe will we see emerging something like a Acrostic@Home grid computing program?

Re:Abra-Melin?

[Achra]

You should be really careful about posting those, you know. The fact that that one _stuck in your mind_ should be a warning. Lord only knows what that one is _supposed_ to do, but if you read that book, there aren't any acrostics to generate "supposed mystical effects". More like "Smite down your neighbor with boils" or "Create tempests of snow" or whatever. I'm not saying it's not all a bunch of bullshit.. I'm just saying, be careful what you're playing with. Trivializing something doesn't necessarily make it trivial.