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Re: [FWP] A "Cheating" hangman dealer



At 6:16 PM -0500 2/16/01, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>I'm afraid this solution does not use Quantum::Superpositions.
>But it was fun to write anyway.  :)

Fun to play, too, though I found that I had no chance of winning
against it unless _I_ cheated, as well!

>% grep '^.y..y.$' /usr/dict/words
>Aythya
>pyrryl
>Ryukyu
>tyddyn
>xyloyl

Perhaps we should also commission a "cheating player", if only to
test the durn thing...

I also found that I had to cheat (i..e., peruse Camel III) to
figure out what was going on, particularly in partition_words.  But
then, that's why I read FWP!

-r
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