The Lemon Fool

This puzzle is to make a meaningful anagram of

ELEVEN PLUS TWO

Cinelli

Spoiler:
















TWELVE PLUS ONE

RC

Heh. That spoiler is too readable: now I'll never know whether that answer (or obvious variants - four of them involving alternative notation) would've come to me in a reasonable time. Very likely not: I'm not a scrabble player.

There's an element of psychology in there. If it had been a longer answer - a big block of text - it would have been an effort to read and much easier to ignore. But as posted it jumped right out at me.

UncleEbenezer wrote:Heh. That spoiler is too readable: now I'll never know whether that answer (or obvious variants - four of them involving alternative notation) would've come to me in a reasonable time. Very likely not: I'm not a scrabble player.

There's an element of psychology in there. If it had been a longer answer - a big block of text - it would have been an effort to read and much easier to ignore. But as posted it jumped right out at me.

Sorry, I'll try to do better next time.

RC

ReformedCharacter wrote:

UncleEbenezer wrote:Heh. That spoiler is too readable: now I'll never know whether that answer (or obvious variants - four of them involving alternative notation) would've come to me in a reasonable time. Very likely not: I'm not a scrabble player.

There's an element of psychology in there. If it had been a longer answer - a big block of text - it would have been an effort to read and much easier to ignore. But as posted it jumped right out at me.

Sorry, I'll try to do better next time.

RC

Erm, sorry, didn't mean to have a go at you: more a case of musing out loud. In retrospect it probably came across wrong.

... anyway well solved, ReformedCharacter. I have problems with making posts invisible and which colour to choose. Doesn't the background alternate in colour between light blue and light grey? So you need to choose your text colour appropriately. I think we need guidance from Gengulphus who, I think, invented invisible text.

Cinelli

cinelli wrote:... anyway well solved, ReformedCharacter. I have problems with making posts invisible and which colour to choose. Doesn't the background alternate in colour between light blue and light grey? So you need to choose your text colour appropriately. I think we need guidance from Gengulphus who, I think, invented invisible text.

Cinelli

First appeared on this board on August 17th, 2017.

Including the observation that it's suitable for unimportant things like spoilers here, as opposed to anything that really matters.

UncleEbenezer wrote:

cinelli wrote:... anyway well solved, ReformedCharacter. I have problems with making posts invisible and which colour to choose. Doesn't the background alternate in colour between light blue and light grey? So you need to choose your text colour appropriately. I think we need guidance from Gengulphus who, I think, invented invisible text.

First appeared on this board on August 17th, 2017.

Yes, UncleEbenezer is responsible for introducing invisible text on this board, not me. I say "introducing" because when I saw it, I had a vague recollection of having seen such a technique before somewhere else, but I've never tracked down where! So I am certain that I didn't invent it, but very uncertain who did invent it...

I did say something substantial at some point about good choices of colour to make the text as hard as possible to discern. I don't remember what I said or where I said it, but it probably doesn't really matter... I do know that I eventually settled for using colour #DFEFFF, because it's not too hard to remember ("DEF" interspersed with "F"s) and is acceptably hard to read against both of the two slightly different colours used for post backgrounds:

SAMPLE SPOILER AGAINST ONE BACKGROUND

SAMPLE SPOILER AGAINST THE OTHER BACKGROUND

Gengulphus

Gengulphus wrote: So I am certain that I didn't invent it, but very uncertain who did invent it...

Quite right.

I did invent it, long before the era of the Web, and probably in the context of pranking. But I'm one among many, and extremely unlikely to have been the first.

Come to think of it, "invisible ink" featured in some of the literature I read as a child. The idea has surely been around longer than any of us.

Your colour choice is indeed better than mine. I just use the best match from the board's palette of pre-defined colours.