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xdg,
Who said anything about opening the word list file? 
1.  Obtain all possible solutions through nefarious means
2.  Print a line asking for input
3.  Get a phone number as input
4.  Display the result

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Since I wasn't disqualified, I will wait until after the deadline for event 1 before revealing my solution.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^5: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun
by xdg (Monsignor) on Feb 18, 2008 at 23:37 UTC

    Well, the event description does have the following clause:

    In addition, the word must appear in the file WordList.txt

    That does sort of imply that even if you use nefarious means, you should be checking that a word from the 'nefarious' list is also in their WordList.

    Of course, maybe they won't catch that. ;-)

    -xdg

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      xdg,
      Well, I calculated how many words were exactly 7 characters long and did not contain Q or Z. After removing duplicates (words that generated the same phone number), there were only 3818 entries. I precomputed all possible solutions and stuck them in __DATA__ so nefarious means = 
      my %lookup = unpack("(A7A7)*", <DATA>);

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      Provided they use the same wordlist.txt that was distributed in the kit, my solution is valid. Since I have been awarded 10 points, I assume they didn't really mean you have to point to 'C:\Scripts' when they run it.

      Cheers - L~R

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        If it's the same wordlist, that certainly sounds sufficient to meet the requirement. Though I would say that approach could be considered more than "four lines" long. ;-)

        -xdg

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