... 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...
Yeah, you're right...I should forget it. What I meant was not that he had any access to the letter sequence but that he was using Lexpert or some other...
The chances of the seventh letter being another E given TEASE? is 4.3%. But we'll never know the probability that he had a bingo that he could find in that...
If this was on isc.ro, you do have access to all his racks after the game (and up to ten games back), with the examine feature. Some other site, couldn't tell...
... If this was on isc.ro, you have access to your opponent's rack during the game itself, at any time, and you can draw any tiles you want out of the bag. If...
Martin Laeuter recently discovered the two following 10x10 wordsquares (use monospaced font to appreciate them): MADHABPASA ARAEDAESIL DAURANNALA HERVIDEROS ...
Does anyone know of a French dictionary (with definitions for each head word) that is available free or for a modest fee? David Levy davidlevylondon@......
... You can grab frWiktionary: http://download.wikipedia.org/backup-index.html but you'll have to parse it. If you prefer a thesaurus, google the file...
In the interests of not reinventing the wheel, is there a recommended open-source jvm-based dawg library (both creating and pattern matching against)? martin...
I'm currently investigating crossword filling with a CSP approach. The CSP approach allows to fill the cells in an 'unordered' order, so we have to use a...
Last time I looked at this, the 'obvious' algorithm was woefully expensive in terms of storage - maybe nowadays it's not. That would be to have a lookup which...
... Frankly, I'm only limited by the memory, since filling a crossword doesn't require any storage, outside of the lexicon. Your approach is interesting, but I...
Oups, here is the real distribution of my wordlist: size 2: 93 words size 3: 538 words size 4: 1745 words size 5: 4244 words size 6: 7757 words size 7: 11117...
The latest version of the Australian program "Crossword Express" seems to be able to fill a grid from any given dictionary very quickly. Do any of you have any...
I haven't tried running them for 10 years or so, but I would imagine that the old C command-line programs that used to take an hour or so would be pretty...
I'm currently trying the CSP approach, but previously worked with the program from Laeuter, which fills the grid letter by letter. CSP means Constraint...
... BTW, here are some new links: Filling with dancing links: http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/free-software/xword/ A freeware Linux solver (seems to fill with...
... I finally found a way to perform a very fast words checking. For every word of the grid, I keep a table of bits representing all the words that can fit...
... Re-reading my code, it's not *purely* brute force - it has one heuristic optimization: as the search progresses, it tries the possible words in order of...
... Hum, you are right, your patterns are too simple. First, notice that I'm french, and we use different rules for crossword filling. In France, it's not good...
... Such things are all strongly dependent on the word list, of course. Number 2 seems relatively easy using Sowpods: ULTRAHEATED MORIBUNDITY BRIGANDS AE ...
... Very nice ! My french lexicon for such grids contains 120000 words (with no conjugation), and I have been unable to find such a grid. BTW, there is a...
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