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149	I had a request to share this with you on wgp! cheers, sherrie...	Sherrie Saint John saint@...	Jan 31, 2001 6:25 pm
150	I'm working on a new version of my old Boggle clone game WordBox for the Palm Pilot. I've seen variants on Boggle up to 6x6 grids, but does anyone know where I...	Kent Smotherman kent@...	Feb 1, 2001 5:43 pm
151	hi i was searching for some kind of source code which -creates crosswords, given grid size,wordlist and clues -hosts the newly generated crossword on the...	Avneet Singh infrin@...	Feb 24, 2001 8:16 am
152	... Start here for pointers: http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/crosswords.html Regards Graham...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Feb 24, 2001 5:55 pm
153	Hello My name is Tim and I am not a programmer. I am writing to this list because I created a deck of cards called Alpha Playing Cards. The cards are used to...	Enter your name here hexchex@...	Feb 27, 2001 2:28 am
154	Does anyone know where to find an English (US) dictionary file, preferably in a relational database format with as many attributes as possible (i.e. word,...	Tom Calagna tcalagna@...	Feb 28, 2001 3:38 am
155	... Is the 'US' part a dealbreaker? The best one that springs to mind is the prolog factbase which contains the Shorter Oxford. Of course it has some severe...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Feb 28, 2001 3:56 am
156	I've written a program in Python (python.org) that goes to a couple dictionary sites and gets the definition, etymology, and part of speech. It works by...	altersnow@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:50 pm
157	hello! my name is asaf penso and i have to do a project for the collage. i decided that my project will be scrabble and i need some information and maybe...	a_penso@...	Mar 10, 2001 10:54 pm
158	I wrote yet another word square solver today. I see that http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/wordsquares.html already has several, and I have no reason to believe...	David Eppstein eppstein@...	Mar 11, 2001 7:41 am
159	Hello! I just discovered your discussion group, and I'm very excited. I've been working on several original word games for Windows, and I'm just about ready...	Haversack Software haversack@...	Mar 12, 2001 9:38 pm
160	Untitled DocumentEnfin la r�ctifiaction du serveur chez pandora a �t� faite! Je peux vous annoncer donc officiellement l'adresse d�finitive du newsgroup: ...	Tanguy Mezzano ketchup@...	Mar 17, 2001 9:45 am
161	Graeme reminded me that I should also send this notice to this list, sorry I forgot I was on the list until he reminded me, and by the way, the reason the ...	TheMazeMan@...	Mar 18, 2001 6:52 am
162	Every year, in March, a magazine called "T�l� 7 Jeux" proposes a contest called "Le championnat de France de Mots Fl�ch�s" (something like: French ...	Jean-Charles Meyrignac jean-charles.meyrigna...	Mar 18, 2001 10:00 am
163	So will you tell us in general terms how you took a program which last year you said you had come to the conclusion could never enumerate all possibilities,...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Mar 18, 2001 5:44 pm
164	... This should make the problem solvable in seconds rather than hours, by dynamic programming instead of backtracking, unless I misunderstand the scoring...	David Eppstein eppstein@...	Mar 18, 2001 6:20 pm
165	... In fact, I improved the algorithm. Now the code is entirely in C language, no more assembly language ! ... possible, ... Yes, you are right, this time,...	Jean-Charles Meyrignac jean-charles.meyrigna...	Mar 18, 2001 10:19 pm
166	The function below purports to give an answer to questions such as If I draw 7 tiles from a bag of 50, what is the probability of me drawing tiles which...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Mar 19, 2001 6:05 pm
167	My program is based on this idea (it took me one year to find it !). However, if you look carefully, you'll see that your idea gives a local maximum, and not...	Jean-Charles Meyrignac jean-charles.meyrigna...	Mar 19, 2001 10:38 pm
168	OK, well I don't need a second opinion to tell me it's wrong - I've found some easy test cases that prove it's wrong: p = drawprob("a", "abcdefgh", 7); ...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Mar 20, 2001 12:15 am
169	Hello, David Eppstein presented his word square solver a week or so ago which I appreciated very much, also because of programming style. But it reraised a...	Laeuter laeuter@...	Mar 20, 2001 7:51 am
170	... Part of the reason I chose least number of possibilities was in the hope that it would keep the solver focused on a single important area of the puzzle ...	David Eppstein eppstein@...	Mar 20, 2001 8:04 am
171	Hello, ... What do you mean with 'first unfilled square'? Just go line by line? That's what the classical programs do anyway. It is hard to read the progress...	Laeuter laeuter@...	Mar 20, 2001 8:33 am
172	Hi, I've download the java scrabble game Jabble (author unknown) from http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/scrabble.html I've been trying to get scrabble running on...	domcobley@...	Mar 20, 2001 10:52 am
173	Hi everybody. i am writing a scrabble game for this is project in college and i need some help. right now i am working on the dictionary. i have the dictionary...	a_penso@...	Mar 20, 2001 8:06 pm
174	If you don't know what tiles your opponent has, and you calculate all the possible plays that they could play (with any of the unseen tiles in the bag), then...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Mar 20, 2001 10:54 pm
175	... When I did my experiments on this subject it way infinitely better to place the most restricted letter first. After all, if there are any solutions then...	sheppardco@...	Mar 21, 2001 2:24 am
176	... The coefficient of each term is the count of the number of ways that term can be formed. It is like the binomial theorem: coefficient of xk in (1+X)n ...	sheppardco@...	Mar 22, 2001 8:49 am
177	... Aha. That's an easy one to calculate, I already have a function to do it (which carefully avoids integer overflow). ... Are you saying that the moves all...	Graham Toal gtoal@...	Mar 22, 2001 3:09 pm
178	The first thing that struck me about your description of the answer (excerpted below) is that you can't simply separate the desired letters from the remaining...	Alan Frank alf@...	Mar 24, 2001 9:45 pm

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