BrowserUk,
I am sorry my example still wasn't optimal. The dictionary I was using is the Scrabble Tournament Words List (TWL) as referenced in this somewhat related post. It comes in at just under 179,000 words. The Word Twister game only has two possible input lengths but I only play the 7 length version as it is the max. Of course, when I took up the quest of turning the problem on its head, I had already written a solver that could produce all valid words 4 or 5 times in the allocated period. My quest was to go beyond that and see what I could come up with if the dictionary and length of original input weren't so low. Again, this was just an academic exercise in exploration and my solution still assumes that the dictionary is relatively static even if it could be much larger.

Thanks again for your responses. I will review them tonight when I have peace and quiet.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^4: Turning A Problem Upside Down by Limbic~Region
in thread Turning A Problem Upside Down by Limbic~Region

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