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letter combinations to make words
Find the combination of N number of letters that make up the most words of length N.
For example:
n r u -> run, urn
dstu -> dust, stud
(these are just examples, not the best combination of ...
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Finding the most 'unique' word
Using you language of choice, write the shortest function/script/program you can that will identify the word with the highest number of unique letters in a text.
Unique letters should include any ...
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Perfect Hangman in reverse
This is similar to other hang-man style problems already posted, except, in this case, the computer is the one guessing. Computers are logical, smart, and consider self-preservation to be important, ...
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Code Golf: Word Unscrambler
Write a program that either accepts input via stdin or from the command line. It will then unscramble the words, printing out the unscrambled version of each word.You get a text file containing every ...
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'Add' up the letters in a word
My dad is a retired teacher, and he used to give combined spelling and math quizzes, where the student would spell a word, and then 'score' the word by adding up the letters, where a=1, b=2, etc. ...
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My Word can beat up your Word
PROBLEM
Given two words, find the winner in a digital root battle.
Define the digital root of a word this way:
Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number: A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, ..., Z = 26
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Word guessing game
A program should take an input on stdin, and guess what a word might be. It should run as a session. One example session is shown below. Characters are fed to it, with a * for a letter not revealed; ...
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Split a word into parts with equal scores
Assuming A=1, B=2... Z=26, and the value of a word is the sum of these letter values, it is possible to split some words into two pieces such that they have equal values.
For example, "wordsplit" can ...
