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in thread Challenge: 8 Letters, Most Words

Well, the off-by-one error I assumed was in my code was actually in the small test dictionaries I ran, because of a spurious empty line at the end.

It is quite funny that my brute force code finds the right solution even without going through all possible combinations. I guess I was just lucky.

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