Re: [FWP] Anacrossagrams

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 12:05:12PM -0400, Rick Delaney wrote:
> Fergal Daly wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Shouldn't part of the fun be testing whether it can be solved?  I think
> changing "nymph" to "hymns" should make it solvable.
> 

Nope, now you're short one P.

Hey, I guess you're right; testing whether it can be solved *should* be
part of the fun!


Ronald

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