Re(3): "Countdown" (golf)

Why does neither of these return 'blade'?

my @letters = qw(b a l d y a e y t);

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~/perl_stuff> grep blade /usr/dict/words 
blade
switchblade

~/perl_stuff> perl golf.pl 
aye
baldy
bay
bayed
beady
bey
by
bye
byte
day
delay
dey
dye
lady
lay
lye
y
ye
yea
yet
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Re: Re(3): "Countdown" (golf) by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 30, 2001 at 15:19 UTC
Check out my reply to japhy, and notice that all your results contain at least one 'y'.... Add the '?' to the end of the regex, and 'blade' will show up. -Blake	[reply]
Re(5): "Countdown" (golf) by graq (Curate) on Nov 30, 2001 at 15:40 UTC
Ahh.. yes I am a little slow - it took >2 minutes to post my reply, during which you answered my question :) DOH! <a href="http://www.graq.co.uk">Graq</a>	[reply]