Re^2: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle

The only hitch is making sure that the DICT contains all the possible legal words. E.g. your typical /usr/dict/words isn't likely to have "seams" in it, so you'd have to generate it.

False problem, I think. See the original spec:

The mystery word(s) should be able to be found in most any english dictionary

None of my (paper) English dictionaries has an entry for "seams" :-)

dave

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Re^3: Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 12, 2005 at 22:18 UTC
But a word doesn't have to have an entry in a dictionary in order to be found in a dictionary. It could be used in the definition of another word, for example. :-)	[reply]