I was all over the place on this one.
I defined an assortment of numbering schemes, systematically assigning values to the letters A-Z and the space character. I used those values in a series of increasingly contrived arithmetic equations, along with a variety of other text properties:
- Character string length
- Number of words
- Number of syllables
- Number of vowels
- Number of consonants
- Number of unique characters
- Number of non-unique characters
- Number of consecutive, repeating characters
- Number of double-vowels
- Number of double-consonants
- Number of "silent" characters
- Number of horizontal lines
- Number of vertical lines
- Number of diagonal lines
- Number of curved lines
- ASCII code difference between first and last character (spelled normally)
- ASCII code difference between first and last character (spelled alphabetically)
You get the idea. I focused on the above and ignored the visual element almost entirely, other than the aforementioned count of various line types contained within each character string.
Much like "DWWNP" versus "dwwnp", the "GOOD PUZZLE WEEHAWK" clue should have tipped me off.
