One of my favorite bits of business is naming the Zodiac sign of total strangers; needless to say I have a variety of ways by which to accomplish this and am always on the lookout for more. Patrick Schlagel’s composition delivering some eye-opening possibilities – some fresh thinking on how to use Branching Anagrams. In fact the thinking offered as well as the historical overview he extends, correcting the long held credits as to who actually gave us the original concept vs. those that have been given the strongest acclaim; nonetheless, these strengths are sufficient for allowing a nit-picky old fart like me to overlook the many grammatical and basic layout shortcomings the book suffers from – they are many as are the misspellings or, to be more correct, misapplied terms.

If you are not shy about using the Branching (a.k.a. “Progressive”) Anagram technique this book will give you some fantastic perspective; techniques that obfuscate the method in some very clever ways as well as scripting approaches that narrow down the process long before the first question (a.k.a. the seeming start of the challenge) is asked.

Patrick gives significant credit where it is due, pointing the reader to alternative sources and thinking that will help you go even further with your understanding and approach; materials by Alain Nu, Doug Dement, Daniel Love and more.