PANGRAMS I

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The fewer letters used, the better the pangram. The most famous pangram, and the most coherent, is:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (35 letters)

This pangram was traditionally used to test all the letter keys of typewriters and dates back to 1888.

A slightly improved, but less fluent, version is:

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. (33 letters)

Other pangrams:

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (32 letters)

Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (31 letters)

Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (29 letters)

ROYAL FLASH
Credit: GAMES Magazine
December, 1984
Connie Kite

[Tacked up on the castle bulletin board]

Queen: Joust over by six P.M.
             Wizard for lunch. ------King  (39 letters)