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It looks like an open contest, and so it is indeed.
The input to this puzzle consists of all English letters contained between two asterisks.
Please ignore all the spaces, punctuation marks, digits and special characters like #,&,@ etc and use the remaining letters to create valid English words of 3,4,5, or 6 letters without repeating any word twice or more.
Suppose you end up with A words of 6 letters, B of 5, C of 4 and D of 3. The leftover letters are of no value.
Consider your goal is to maximise the value of 7A+5B+4C+D.
What is your score?
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(In reply to
6-letter words via program; smaller from head by Charlie)
Columns 1 through 5
{'acting'} {'agapai'} {'ageist'} {'airmen'} {'aliyah'}
Columns 6 through 10
{'alkali'} {'allude'} {'anabas'} {'aorist'} {'argyll'}
Columns 11 through 15
{'arrack'} {'arrays'} {'atlatl'} {'author'} {'avulse'}
Columns 16 through 20
{'bailey'} {'barman'} {'caecum'} {'capful'} {'censed'}
Columns 21 through 25
{'centre'} {'chintz'} {'chowed'} {'chuffs'} {'citied'}
Columns 26 through 30
{'cloven'} {'cogito'} {'cohost'} {'coifed'} {'defend'}
Columns 31 through 35
{'defund'} {'delete'} {'depone'} {'dildoe'} {'dimwit'}
Columns 36 through 40
{'dirndl'} {'envier'} {'exogen'} {'firths'} {'foetus'}
Columns 41 through 45
{'forrit'} {'gleeks'} {'hookup'} {'howlet'} {'kippen'}
Columns 46 through 50
{'mesons'} {'nitres'} {'piolet'} {'pitons'} {'preens'}
Columns 51 through 55
{'purest'} {'retore'} {'rottes'} {'runout'} {'seizes'}
Columns 56 through 60
{'sinews'} {'spinto'} {'strove'} {'tenths'} {'theres'}
Columns 61 through 65
{'tholoi'} {'tooler'} {'twines'} {'wisent'} {'wusses'}
n6 =
65
e 2
l 1
o 8
s 4
t 8
w 2
sweets, stows, too, tot, loot from the remainder.
also comes to 473, with 66 6-letter words, 1 5-letter, 1 4-letter and 2 3-letter.
addentum: As pointed out by Steven Lord, using toot instead of too and tot, adds 4 points instead of 2, making the total 475.
Edited on January 17, 2021, 9:47 pm
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Posted by Charlie
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re: 6-letter words via program; smaller from head
