Today I was searching for the name of a word game that a friend of mine came up with. I assumed that she wasn't the first to come up with it, so I did comprehensive search of the internet. But I didn't find it! Is it possible that no one else has played this game before? Still unlikely, because the internet does not reflect everything that happens in the world, but still...it should be on the internet. And it should have a name.
The game goes like this: try to find a sentence for which you can remove all of the spaces and then put them back in different places while still having all of the new groups of letters really be words. Bonus: the new sentence actually makes sense, preferably with a different meaning than the first one.
Similar games to this are called constrained writing games or constrained writing techniques, like palindromes and lipograms. So I looked on a few different list of constrained writing techniques, but this technique wasn't there. Then I tried to search for it based on its characteristics, like "word divider game," "scriptio continua game," etc. There were some interesting articles, but nothing about the game/technique we were talking about.
As a participant in the discovery of the game, therefore, I proudly choose the game's name: space rearrangement. To me, this name makes the most sense, because your taking the spaces in a sentence, leaving all the rest of the characters the same, and rearranging them.
