Re: [FWP] Anacrossagrams

[Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>]

At 18:58 16/07/99 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>Here's one we haven't done before...  :)
>
>
>http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/5acbox.shtml
>
>
>"Anacrossagrams are like miniature crossword puzzles, except the clues are
>words, and what you fill into the grid is an anagram of the clue. The trick
>is to figure out what order the letters go in."
>
>Here's the first one from that page:
>
>
>    1   2   3   4   5
>  +---+---+---+---+---+           Across       Down
>1 |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+           1. erupt     1. risky
>2 |   |   |   |   |   |           2. nymph     2. heath
>  +---+---+---+---+---+           3. horse     3. spoon
>3 |   |   |   |   |   |           4. soaky     4. strum
>  +---+---+---+---+---+           5. twist     5. swept
>4 |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+
>5 |   |   |   |   |   |
>  +---+---+---+---+---+
>
>
>
>The solutions are straightforward enough that it's not too hard to write a
>Perl program to solve these.
>
>Allow the words (and maybe even the size of the grid) to be entered by the
>user, either on the command line or after a prompt.  For the solution, you
>can just print the letters, you don't have to print the silly ASCII grid.
>:)
>
>Have fun!

Have you written a program to solve these? If so, how did it cope with the
fact that there are 4 down Ss but only 3 across in the puzzle above or am I
missing something?

Fergal



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