The first project concept: The project: Daily Cryptogram This will be a cryptogram game for a daily quote written into a cryptogram for people to solve. The...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Nov 4, 2011 6:24 am
already done - I have a program which goes out to a website with quotations and pulls a random quotation which it then encodes as a cryptogram. it ran on my...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Nov 4, 2011 5:57 pm
Yes, solving is definitely where the wordgame-programmers interest lies. The only useful parts of my web page script were the generation of the encryption...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
Apr 29, 2012 10:15 pm
Hi all ! This group has been quiet for a long time, so I propose you a little challenge. It's pretty simple: *you have a 15x15 grid, and you have to pack the...
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Christopher D. Long
vertex_operator
May 8, 2012 2:10 pm
Hey Jean-Charles! Sorry to see this group so quiet, definitely one of the most fun areas of programming. This past week I rebuilt my old Boggle solver - I...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
May 8, 2012 3:57 pm
Hi Chris ! Here is my solution to the problem I proposed: *VERMONT#FLORIDA** ##H###E##O####R #MONTANA#UTAH#K ##D###N##I#L##A ##E##TEXAS#A##N MAINE#S##I#B##S ...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
May 8, 2012 6:04 pm
Answering my own question, here is a 25x25 grid containing all the states: VIRGINIA__I_V_____I_M_M__ ______L_RHODEISLAND_I_O__ W_____L___W_R___L_A_S_N__ ...
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David Eppstein
eppstein@...
May 8, 2012 6:23 pm
The states all fit in a 21x21 grid without any overlaps: SOUTHCAROLINAWYOMING- NORTHCAROLINAVERMONT- MASSACHUSETTSNEWYORK- WESTVIRGINIAVIRGINIA- ...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
May 8, 2012 9:39 pm
... My program found a few solutions on a 24x24 grid. 23x23 seems very tough to fill, but I'll try 23x24. ... Both of use these the standard first fit...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Jun 21, 2012 3:32 pm
... programming? I would say anything that's currently computationally too expensive for real-time play, but which can be parallelized on a cluster... Hi folks...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Apr 10, 2013 5:06 pm
Our old-time readers [*] may recall that I played around with an algorithm some years ago that used a neat programming trick to do a complete evaluation of a...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
Apr 10, 2013 6:31 pm
Funny, I was just thinking about this approach a few days ago! Just off the top of my head: rather than drawing all possible racks and evaluating each one, why...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Apr 10, 2013 6:56 pm
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Patrick Niesink <patrick.niesink@... ... I think I considered that and rejected it. From hazy memory, the problem was...
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Steven Alexander
stevena17
May 5, 2013 3:25 pm
Someone called to my attention that the scrabble FAQ's listed smallest blocked game under the North American Tournament Word List not using or allowing blanks,...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
May 5, 2013 5:56 pm
So if we write an automatic game player and only use words of <= 4 letters[*] while <= 13 characters played, backtracking if > 13 characters placed, we ought...
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Steven Alexander
stevena17
May 5, 2013 9:45 pm
... I'm with Graham in spirit, though perhaps I haven't thought through the situational logic as much. If we know that all 2lw are extendible but some 3lw...
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Patrick Niesink
pniesink
May 5, 2013 11:30 pm
13 is definitely possible: __R _WUD BUBUS _DUH __S but a program that enumerated all optimal solutions would of course be preferable. (And take more time to...
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Steven Alexander
stevena17
May 6, 2013 6:18 am
13 isn't news, as the one Alan Frank supplied for a 1993 Usenet edition of the FAQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/news.answers/Yc7qbriOigk/uduU1NEYyYAJ ...
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Sam Kantimathi
SamTimer@...
May 6, 2013 4:18 pm
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Evan Simpson
m28ale
May 6, 2013 4:59 pm
... There are 4 U's used so as long as 2 of the other letters are blanks it still works. Cheers Ev...
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Sam Kantimathi
SamTimer@...
May 6, 2013 5:09 pm
good point. can someone suggest how to view constructs like this in proportional font in gmail so the scrabble tiles line up properly? All the best, Sam...
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BJ Premore
bjpremore
May 6, 2013 5:45 pm
... One thing that works for me is the "Show original" option, which displays a raw text version of the email in a new browser window or tab. On most ...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
May 6, 2013 9:06 pm
Or you can use Courier New, which is a monospaced font: __R__ _WUD_ BUBUS _DUH_ __S__ JC ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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BJ Premore
bjpremore
May 6, 2013 9:12 pm
... Oops, I meant to say that the results of using the "Show original" option are likely to be displayed in a monospaced font, not a proportional one. BJ ... ...
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garth dawson
garth.dawson@...
May 7, 2013 1:57 pm
With respect to
forcing mono-space font this link might be
useful: http://code.stephenmorley.org/html-and-css/fixing-browsers-broken-monospace-font-handling/...
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Sam Kantimathi
SamTimer@...
May 7, 2013 1:59 pm
blocked = no more legal words could be formed in this game. All the best, Sam Kantimathi SamTimer@... ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
May 7, 2013 4:35 pm
I almost finished writing it on Sunday night. Will definitely get this working when I can get back to it next weekend. I had to do some major restructuring of...
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Martin DeMello
martindemello
May 7, 2013 6:20 pm
http://zyzzyva.net/wordlists.shtml martin...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
May 7, 2013 6:25 pm
Perfect, thanks! ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Steven Alexander
stevena17
May 9, 2013 6:46 am
Is the method described correct, and why? Steven Alexander sa433@... ... From: Chris Hall <chris.f.hall@...> Date: Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:31...
