Re: Another word puzzle with too many permutations

After getting the right (and only) solution, here's my code. I'm not a concise writer as the others who have posted code here, but it works :) (and it's reasonably fast: 1s until the solution has been found).

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Re^2: Another word puzzle with too many permutations by sarchasm (Acolyte) on Oct 16, 2013 at 15:55 UTC
Definitely the fastest solution with the correct result thus far. I changed the puzzle to identify 20 items from a list of 100 and it is running. I did this same thing with a couple of the other solutions and they either run out of memory or haven't completed yet. It doesn't look like your code consumes much memory so I will let it run and see what happens. Thank you.	[reply]
Re^3: Another word puzzle with too many permutations by sarchasm (Acolyte) on Oct 16, 2013 at 16:11 UTC
WOW!!! The solution kicked out after 23 minutes. I've been running this particular puzzle through a couple of different programs that are still churning after 24 hours. I also appreciate the comments in your script. I am looking forward to studying the code a little closer. Thank you very much!	[reply]