Many believed the perfectly symmetric grid had the power to repel bad spirits and bring good luck. Ancient Romans were so amazed by this, that they often wrote this word-grid into houses, temples, monuments, drinking vessels. That’s the ultimate palindromic wordplay. What’s amazing about this square is that you can can read its words top-to-bottom, and also bottom-to-top, left-to-right and right-to-left: It’s the latin expression sator arepo tenet opera rotas. ![]() This one was very famous in ancient roman times: Ancient Sator Square inscription. Try reading these sentences backwards: Live not on evil.īut there is another word play that is even more impressive: a magic word square. ![]() You can read the letters in these sentences forwards of backwards, and they’ll still form the same words. ![]() You might have heard of palindromic sentences.
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