Re: ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-03 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Wow, very cool Alex. Thanks for sharing. Mark > On Jan 2, 2022, at 11:42 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > I've put a little 'game' up on "sample stacks", and also on the web. > > It "solves" Boggle style puzzles, i.e. you give it a 5x5 grid of letters, and > it finds all word

Re: ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-03 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/3/22 10:37 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 1/2/22 10:03 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: A decade ago I found this board on the net somewhere, it claims to have a possible 3271 points (didn't say how many words.) Good luck: ...there goes my Monday... Only Monday?

Re: ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-03 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/2/22 10:03 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: A decade ago I found this board on the net somewhere, it claims to have a possible 3271 points (didn't say how many words.) Good luck: ...there goes my Monday... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/2/22 5:42 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: 1. given we have 25 grid positions, and 25 letters (omitting 'Q'), what arrangement of letters gives the most, or least, words. A decade ago I found this board on the net somewhere, it claims to have a possible 3271 points (didn't say how

Re: ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
This is fantastic! I've often wondered how many possible words there are in any given grid. The web interface is much better than the last time I tried one, very speedy response after the initial load. And even that is much better than it used to be. I'll grab the stack next. Cool. On 1/2/22

ANN: BoggleSolver now on sample stacks

2022-01-02 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
I've put a little 'game' up on "sample stacks", and also on the web. It "solves" Boggle style puzzles, i.e. you give it a 5x5 grid of letters, and it finds all words within it, following the prescribed rules - words are formed by moving to adjacent (including diagonal) grid positions, and you