My big problem is knowing what to call the thing (my characters are all academics, so they're very precise about terminology).
The artefact they're studying is a three sided mirror (although they later learn that examples with four, five, six, etc sides also exist). Along each edge of the mirror's frame is a series of letters. Depending on which corner the reader starts from, and how many sides they follow the series along, the letters comprise the first letter of each word in a particular ritual. So a three-sided mirror can theoretically give the wording of nine different rituals.
I started off referring to the puzzle as an acronym, but I'm not sure that's right, and it's definitely not a cipher, given the definition above, so what is it?
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Sat, Aug. 6th, 2005 10:56 am (UTC)My big problem is knowing what to call the thing (my characters are all academics, so they're very precise about terminology).
The artefact they're studying is a three sided mirror (although they later learn that examples with four, five, six, etc sides also exist). Along each edge of the mirror's frame is a series of letters. Depending on which corner the reader starts from, and how many sides they follow the series along, the letters comprise the first letter of each word in a particular ritual. So a three-sided mirror can theoretically give the wording of nine different rituals.
I started off referring to the puzzle as an acronym, but I'm not sure that's right, and it's definitely not a cipher, given the definition above, so what is it?
Gina