Re^3: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

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Re^4: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2005 at 19:53 UTC
BrowserUk, Ok - let's have them. It would appear that my assumptions about the puzzle were likely wrong then. I assumed only 1 set of letters could be formed from the hints though multiple words might be able to be formed from the permutations of those letters. In this case, I can't think of 8 ways to arrange the letters 'h' 'o' 'u' 's' 'e' and not get non-sensical words. Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^5: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2005 at 20:17 UTC
One of those is a suspect word, but i think the others are valid words and meet the spec? `8 dukes house krems makes pokes smoke spade spoke` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks. Silence betokens consent. Love the truth but pardon error.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 12, 2005 at 20:22 UTC
BrowserUk, Sorry - see the 3rd assumption. The number of letters in common is the exact number of unique letters in common. A 't' would only be counted once even if it existed twice in both the mystery word and the hint word dukes has 5 letters in common with dukes krems has 3 letters in common with seams makes has 3 letters in common with seams pokes has 35 letters in common with pokes I didn't finish the list as you can see you have a flaw in your code (which I am interested in seeing). Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^7: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2005 at 20:45 UTC
Re^7: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by wolfger (Deacon) on Jan 12, 2005 at 21:06 UTC