You are to fill a 4 x 4 grid with 16 unique letters (these include the 5 vowels).
Each row and column is to form a different English word.
The grid is scored as A=1 to Z=26 for each letter used.
Should the above task prove elusive, letters may only be repeated once but only the first occurrence is to be scored.
What is your best solution and score?
I proposed this without a known solution.
I had a feeling of dubious comfort that something matching my initial specifications could be met, but I allowed for an 'exit' strategy in case we not get there.
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Dej Mar: 216, and probing well into the depths of the higher alpha range.
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Penny: 217! This solution does similarly as Dej Mar apparently recognises.
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Charlie: In proposing this I sensed that Charlie might have a rather wide data and technological base for an advanced solution.
Having some advance knowledge of this problem Charlie has respected a wish to withhold an anticipated solution. I value that choice.
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Upon reflection one will note that the database to achieve the highest possible score should allow only the 5 vowels and the consonants from "Z" back to "N".
This statement in no way reflects badly against any proposal eminating from them those mentioned above.
Language will change and words not recogised will enter into dictionaries like those accessed by Penny and Charlie.
My Official Solution:Dej Mar, Penny and Charlie have shown us lower and higher possibilities within a "higher definition".
The "higher definition" will clearly increase when, and if, newer words become recognised within acceptable usage.
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Posted by brianjn
on 2007-04-06 04:24:01 |
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