[FWP] Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle (from c.l.p.mod)

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

>From comp.lang.perl.mod:

This week's Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle With Will Shortz on
National Public Radio presents a problem of a class that can be
defined as "match a substring of exactly n characters from the
unordered set of discrete characters { c1, c2, ..., cn }".

Here's the puzzle:

   Take the 9-letter-word SUBDEACON (the name of a church official).
   The word contains the first 5 letters of the alphabet, ABCD and E
   consecutively inside it, although not in alphabetical order. This
   is a two-part challenge: first, can you think of a common 8-letter
   word that has ABCDE consecutively inside it, not necessarily in
   alphabetical order; second, can you think of a common 7-letter word
   with the same property? Both answers are uncapitalized words that
   are familiar to everyone.

   (C) 1999 Will Shortz


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