We blogged a few months ago about Princeton Prof. Joshua Katz's freshman seminar on wordplay. An article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine at that time announced a constrained writing contest. Now the results are in, and we're impressed! The winning entry, pictured above, took it's constraint cue from the letters in a regulation Scrabble bag. Impressive effort -- congrats to Justin Werfel, who took top honors.
The best part of wordplay is that it encourages other wordplay. One of the honorable mentions, Arlen Kassof Hastings, submitted this in response to Werfel's winning entry:
If any of you, dear readers, have what it takes to compose a piece of constrained writing using only the letters (and blanks!) in a regulation Scrabble set, submit it to us and we will surely post the results!
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