Ten nine-letter words have been separated into units of three letters. The units have been randomly put in the below list. Can you determine the original 10 words?

   dst rbr ard man tor rbo
   ove and con erf ent dli
   new fly spa dif hai ght
   per all fis ban ush hea
   dra gon fer wat duc her 

(In reply to re: Computer solution (exhaustive) by Federico Kereki)

"Brute force" would have been if I had tried to form all possible combinations (30*29*28) of those thirty syllables, then searched my database for each one. That program would have run longer than 10 seconds. Don't I get any credit for choosing an efficient algorithm ?

What are you, a zyzzyvas ?

Just kidding.....

 

 

Edited on August 10, 2004, 2:42 pm

Posted by Penny on 2004-08-10 14:41:13