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Re: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

by TedPride (Priest)
on Jan 12, 2005 at 20:56 UTC ( [id://421771]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

The following returns all the sets of 5 uniqe letters that agree with the rules (two and only two letters are common between the set of letters and each of the words). Note that I've also added a rule, that every set of letters must contain ONLY letters included in the input words.
use strict; use warnings; my (%l, @a, $bad, $w); my @w = ('bumps','seams','domes','shake','pokes','dukes'); for (@w) { $l{$_} = () for (split //, $_); } permute(5, '', \@a, sort keys %l); for $w (@a) { $bad = 0; for (@w) { if (both($_, $w) != 2) { $bad = 1; last; } } if (!$bad) { print "$w\n"; } } sub permute { my ($d, $w, $a, @l) = @_; if (!--$d) { push @$a, $w.$_ for @l; } else { permute($d, $w.$l[$_], $a, @l[($_+1)..$#l]) for (0..($#l-$d +)); } } sub both { my ($w1, $w2) = @_; my %l; my $c = 0; $l{$_} = () for split //, $w1; for (split //, $w2) { $l{$_} = 1 if exists $l{$_}; } for (values %l) { $c++ if $_; } return $c; }
Sloppy code in places probably, but it does the job. Returned values are:
abdep abeou adkmp akmou
Problem is, I can't see a way to arrange any of these into an english word, unless I'm missing a possibility on the first set. Obviously, some of the letters have to be used twice, or letters not in any of the original words have to be allowed. Back to the drawing board :\

EDIT: Ohhh, you changed the puzzle. Time to see if I can get this one to work...

Nope, doesn't work with the new puzzle either. I'd delete my post at this point, but I should leave it here in case someone can gain insight from my mistakes.

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Re^2: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2005 at 21:01 UTC
    TedPride,
    EDIT: Ohhh, you changed the puzzle. Time to see if I can get this one to work...

    The original puzzle was copyrighted. Even still, there was a copy/paste error. If trammell's solution works, you can always generate test puzzle with it.

    Cheers - L~R

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