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I have written some fun software to solve Boggle games (this is the game in which six-sided dice labeled with letters are shaken in a plastic container to form an N x N array; the object of the game, in short, is to find paths through adjacent letters to form valid English words, subject to minimum length rules and a prohibition against using one die twice in a single word.) The searches are very fast, even on this 266 MHz machine. I just shook the game to get an array, as follows:
JFDER GDARD MWOTE PTUCP HILAH
A few seconds glancing gives me adder, water, actor, and rear/reared.
I plugged the grid into the Boggle program, which found 363 matches in about one second, including the four I mention above. Other notables that the program found include acuter, alcoate, capered, chaptered, outpaced, readout, rerouted, retouch, ulcered, and watered. I might touch up the program a bit and release it as freeware, perhaps open-sourced under the GNU GPL. Let’s see if there is any interest.
Here is a screenshot:
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