Perplexing Puzzles, Confounding Conundrums,
and Esoteric Enigmas
Most telephone keypads associate letters with the numbers in the following way.
1 | 2 ABC | 3 DEF |
4 GHI | 5 JKL | 6 MNO |
7 PQRS | 8 TUV | 9 WXYZ |
* | 0 | # |
Using such a designation the sequence 56442 is unabiguously the word, LOGIC. However, some designations have more than one possible mapping; these are called textonyms. For example, 7473 could map to PIPE, RIPE, RISE, or SIRE.
What six words could 2253 be mapped to?