Today’s date is 22 February 2022 and when written as 22/02/2022 it not only forms a palindrome but it is also an ambigram. There are only four ambigram numbers – 0, 1, 2 and 8 – these appear the same ...

Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text ...

An ambigram, also known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also when viewed as a mirror image, or ...

For exampleRotational (rotation)An ambigram called a type is designed to allow letters that should not be read unless they are in the correct orientation to be read from different directions. The ...

Solutions for todays puzzles plus a gallery of readers’ designs Earlier today I wrote about ambigrams, a type of writing that is designed to be read in more than one way. Typically, an ambigram is a ...

TODAY’S date can be read the same way forwards, backwards and upside down. The rare phenomenon is called an ambigram and a palindrome. Today’s date is 22 February 2022 and when written as 22/02/2022 ...