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- From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
- Subject: Word Search Solver
- Message-ID: <JHH_25=@cs.widener.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 22:11:52 GMT
-
- I was gonna post a shar of this, but it's a lil too big (~100k,
- with the word list).
-
- On March 15th, Don Dodson (ata@sage.cc.purdue.edu) posted a killer
- wordsearch to rec.puzzles (75 x 75); first thing we said was,
- "Cool! Let's write a program for it!" (we = Sven Heinicke
- [sven@cs.widener.edu] and I).
-
- What better to do on a Friday, right? (cough) And another Friday
- .. and a Wednesday .. and ..
-
- 'mother' is the result. (Since it was a mother of a puzzle.)
-
- We came up with about 1800 three-or-more letter words, with no
- duplicates. The code still has a slight bug (it does 8 of the 9
- possible directions you can go in), so that ninth may add the 200
- or so ya need to qualify for Don's "ability to post".
-
- I've put it on ftp.cs.widener.edu (192.55.239.132), if ya wanna
- give it a go. Feel free to hack on it, if ya want (or finish it!).
- I'm too burned out on it to do anything more with it for a while.
- It's the Makefile, a few C files, the puzzle, and a dictionary
- (all upper case, 3 or more letters). I haven't commented the code
- much, but it's reasonably readable.
-
- Have fun.
-
- Brendan
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