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Re^4: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

by Limbic~Region (Chancellor)
on Jan 12, 2005 at 19:53 UTC ( [id://421733]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle
in thread Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

BrowserUk,
Ok - let's have them. It would appear that my assumptions about the puzzle were likely wrong then. I assumed only 1 set of letters could be formed from the hints though multiple words might be able to be formed from the permutations of those letters. In this case, I can't think of 8 ways to arrange the letters 'h' 'o' 'u' 's' 'e' and not get non-sensical words.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^5: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2005 at 20:17 UTC

    One of those is a suspect word, but i think the others are valid words and meet the spec?

    8 dukes house krems makes pokes smoke spade spoke

    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    Silence betokens consent.
    Love the truth but pardon error.
      BrowserUk,
      Sorry - see the 3rd assumption.
      The number of letters in common is the exact number of unique letters in common. A 't' would only be counted once even if it existed twice in both the mystery word and the hint word
      • dukes has 5 letters in common with dukes
      • krems has 3 letters in common with seams
      • makes has 3 letters in common with seams
      • pokes has 35 letters in common with pokes
      I didn't finish the list as you can see you have a flaw in your code (which I am interested in seeing).

      Cheers - L~R

        ... you have a flaw in your code ...

        Not really. It's doing exactly what I thought the challenge required.

        Then I strongly suggest that you completely re-word the text of your challenge. Something along the lines of:

        The mystery word has exactly 2 unique letters in common with 'bumps'

        As the rules stand, with the details spread all over the place like that, it is very misinterpretable.

        As for my "code", it was originally a hand-coded single regex applied to all the 5 characters words in my words file.

        I had just finished writing a script to generate the regex from command line input of the form:

        P:\test>421692-1 5 bumps:2 seams:2 domes:3 shake:3 pokes:3 dukes:3 8 dukes house krems makes pokes smoke spade spoke

        When I read your reply that I was misinterpreting your spec. I'll have to take a look and see if it is adaptable to my new understanding of the rules.


        Examine what is said, not who speaks.
        Silence betokens consent.
        Love the truth but pardon error.
        # pokes has 3 letters in common with pokes

        *boggle*
        Count that again? ;-)


        --
        Linux, sci-fi, and Nat Torkington, all at Penguicon 3.0
        perl -e 'print(map(chr,(0x4a,0x41,0x50,0x48,0xa)))'

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