Part XIII: Scramble 6 -- Shuffle the String

Arrange the String segments in order of length, shortest first.  Take note of the number of letters in each segment, which you will need below.  Then rejoin them into one String again, which will have 132 letters plus the number in the word that was added to one segment in the previous step.

Next will be a SHUFFLE operation, as defined here:

Shuffle: To rearrange the letters in a string by laying it out across into a rectangular array, then exchanging the rows and columns by reading down.  Depending on the factorability of the total number of letters, there may be many non-trivial ways to do it.  Additional directions or clues may indicate the right choice, or for a last step one may have to simply try various factors until lucid text results. 

There are four ways, for example, to Shuffle a 12-letter string:

ABCDEFGHIJKL

AB = ACEGIKBDFHJL

CD     (2 x 6)

EF   

GH

IJ

KL

ABC = ADGJBEHKCFIL

DEF     (3 x 4)

GHI 

JKL

ABCD = AEIBFJCGKDHL

EFGH     (4 x 3)

IJKL   

ABCDEF = AGBHCIDJEKFL

GHIJKL     (6 x 2)

Perform such a shuffle with the String, arranged so each row has the same number of letters as one of the segments that were just joined together, while the number of rows is also the number of letters in at least one word in the Word list.

After you have extracted the columns in order, join all together into a single string.  Checkpoint: A triple letter occurs at positions 88-90.

Now both String and Word list are set aside while a KEY is developed to facilitate combining the two.