Shuffled quote
Rearrange the characters in each column to form a message. Punctuation is included in the grid. A * or ^ appears before capitalized words. If there is no punctuation or * or ^ between adjacent words, then _ is inserted between them to represent the space. (Internal capitals may introduce ambiguity: “Go Daddy” and “GoDaddy” are each *GO*DADDY.) The text is broken into four rows and the characters in each column are then sorted vertically. The enumeration of a shuffled quote is not given. Example:
SHUFFLED QUOTE
A ! * _ B E _ _ A _ D
I C G _ L F _ C A R H
S N K ‘ O I C E O T P
Y O U A R U T N
Answer: You’re nothing but a pack of cards! Alice
A shuffled quote should have at most 100 letters and at most 30 columns (i.e., at most 120 characters).
The shuffled quote was invented by VVroo, as a variation of dropped quotes.