Re: [FWP] Jotto puzzle: first five guesses

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

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 03:35:41PM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> 
> In each turn, the computer simply picks a word *AT*RANDOM* [!] that is 
> still possible [that is, that is still consistent with all of the 
> previous info].  First word is just picked entirely at random, and you go 
> from there.  Trust me: you *cannot* beat this program, even with this 
> simple a strategy [although not so trivial to implement: hence the 
> programming problem]
> 

Do you play with the rule that each word must contain five unique letters
with no repeats?  If so, I think I have a fairly simple way to implement
this.  If not, it would be harder, but still not too difficult, I think.

Ronald

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