This progarm has been running for many years, over 20 I think.While I do not watch it on a regular basis, I have watched it quite a bit.

The rules are you can only use the letters given and you can only use them as many times as they appear on the board.

Given that I dont think any solution so far actually solve the problem correctly. Also the question was to only list those which are of the longest length.

Here is my solution of 112

my @letters = qw(d u n s c a e y t);
open(D,"/usr/share/dict/words") or die $!;

print f(@letters);

sub f {
#        1         2         3         4         5
#234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
my%h;$h{$_}++for@_;my@b;push @{$b[length]},$_ for grep{
#    6        7         8         9         0         1
#78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
my%g=%h;$g{$_}--for/./g;!grep{$_<0}values%g}<D>;@{$b[-1]}
}

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But I am sure someone will shorten it

In reply to Re: "Countdown" (golf) by gbarr
in thread "Countdown" (golf) by stuffy

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