My supercomputer run to search for 11-squares didn't find any. I guess if there are any to be had, it'll need more than just an incremental increase from a...
Too bad that there is no 11-square. For my 8x9 french grid, I had to use several dictionaries, since the official one (ODS4) was not sufficient. BTW, amongst...
Hello everybody. First of all I would like to thank everyone who helped me in the task of finding a way to index a list of words according to their frequency,...
Hi! - yes, indeed I wrote the code (and it's open source so you're welcome to have a good look at it) It is meant to be exhaustive but I wouldn't rule out the...
... In France, this game is called Jarnac http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarnac_(jeu) (Pun with Jarnac = j'arnaque). Several years ago, there was a site to play...
... As if you need to ask :-) Totally untested as I've never played the game, just written code for it :-/ (I.e. the code does what I intended it to do, but...
This is an ad for Jan-08 demonstrating the power of WHAT, Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool. This is a long message, since it contains many answers based on...
I'm composing a puzzle for an upcoming treasure hunt which will be a 6x7 (I hope) grid containing six specific 12-letter words. I *almost* managed to squeeze...
Graham, Thanks, but this doesn't seem to have a solution to quite the problem I'm trying to solve. But that's okay, it'll be interesting to write one myself. ...
... If the word list is completely known in advance, then it cries out as a problem where you would want to solve it for *all* words in your wordlist at once. ...
... [...] ... Nice ideas, both! Actually, thinking some more about the reversed trie, this is one of the problems a gaddag was intended to solve, isn't it? ...
... Thanks :) ... Well, I was thinking of this in terms of building in a has_prefix? function into a wordsearch program I'm writing; right now it uses a dawg,...
... If you just want to know whether there is a prefix, perhaps you can add one bit to every node in your dawg with that indicator. That solves the question...
... Well, we just assumed that you meant that subset of a dawg that we usually refer to as a trie ;-) After all, the traversal code is identical. Your...
... My acquaintance, the elementary-school teacher and singer/songwriter Bob Blue, invented a game called "universals." It works well in a group of six to...
Buy WHAT with cash, such as at the BAT, and save $5. WHAT costs $19.95, such as with a credit card on-line, but you can give me cash or a check, and it will...
Hi, I am interested in DAWG programs and am requesting that hopefully someone could refer me to any good reference sources for the subject. Also I was trying...
I wonder if anyone can help. I normally run LeXpert on my Dell Axim x51v. I have transferred the files to my Navigo sat nav but can't get it to run. I suspect...
I'm new to the group, after an interval of 10+ years, that is. Not familiar with the protocols, so hope I don't stomp on anyone's toes. Anyhow, I've written a...
I was playing online the other day and the person I was playing against started out with PIES. It was a waste of an S, I thought. A couple turns later he...
The probability of drawing 7 tiles which make a 7-letter word is about 12% -- not all that rare. If one of the two tiles left on his rack after TEASE was a...