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====== Hex ====== ===== Recruitment ===== We started writing cryptic crosswords for the Atlantic Monthly in 1977, and around that time we began wondering (the way you do when your mind has a certain congenital warp) what group of eight letters would yield the highest number of transposals. We wrote to [[nightowl|Mary Hazard]], who had published some kind of lipogrammatical poem in a magazine (we now forget which); in the biographical blurb about her was the info that she edited //The Enigma// for the National Puzzlers League. She wrote back to us and brought to our attention TANGIERS, GANTRIES, INGRATES, ANGRIEST, RANGIEST, TEA RINGS, INERT GAS, and GANISTER (plus a couple other obscurities). We were appropriately impressed and grateful and soon began subscribing to //The Enigma//. In fact, the first issue we received was the [[Nightowl]] tribute issue (January 1978); after that [[Mangie]] became the editor. //First Issue//: Dec 1977 ===== Recruits ===== [[Slik]]. ===== Nom ===== Our nom comes from the initials of our handles plus the symbol of our cruciverbalistic preoccupation. Since 1985 we've been living in south-central Pennsylvania where houses and barns are often decorated with hex signs. We have such a sign ourselves; it was made by Johnny Claypool, perhaps the most famous (apart from the Zook family) of Pennsylvania's hex-sign artisans. ==== Combinoms ==== No data. ===== Offices ===== No data.