Logogram

Logogram (Gr. logos, 'a word,' and gramma, 'a letter') is simply a complicated or multiplied form of the Anagram (q.v.), where the puzzlemonger, instead of contenting himself with the formation of a single new word or sentence out of the old by the transposition of the letters, racks his brain to discover all the words that may be extracted from the whole or from any portion of the letters, and throws the whole into a series of verses in which synonymic expressions for these words must be used. The puzzle lies in ascertaining what the concealed words are, and, through them, what is the primary word out of which they have all been extracted. A specimen is given in Henry B. Wheatley's book on Anagrams (1862), in which, out of the word 'curtains,' no less than ninety-three smaller ones are framed.