Take, for example, the word
INTERPOLATE. It could be broken into 3,
INT / ERPOL / ATE, and with these three blocks, you can make the anagrams
TIN,
POLER and
EAT, all English words. Since you broke the initial word in three, your score is 3. Or, you could cut your score to 2, by breaking it into
INTERPO / LATE, to form
POINTER and
TALE. Note that
LATE would not be allowed in the latter solution, because each answer word
must involve some rearrangement of letters.
If you have trouble anagramming a block, you may add one or more additional letters of your choice, in order to form a word. Each added letter, however, counts as 2 (as a penalty) for your score. If you canīt find any solution for a given word, add 4 points to your score. Contractions, hyphenated words, and capitalized words are not allowed in answers, but plurals and past tense forms of verbs are fine.
Below are 8 words, and I achieve with them a score of 20. Can you match my score or, maybe, achieve a better one?
1. UNSTEADILY 2. INCONSIDERATE 3. ORCHESTRATION 4. SOMNAMBULANCE
5. UNFORTUNATELY 6. MISADAPTATIONS 7. ANTEPENULTIMATE 8. DISENFRANCHISEMENT
While solving
Splitting Words 2, I came up with a better program. Its results for the current puzzle are:
UNSTEADILY sun, ate, idly 3
INCONSIDERATE coin, sin, red, eat 4
ORCHESTRATION chore, arts, it, no 4
SOMNAMBULANCE moans, bum, clean 3
UNFORTUNATELY fun, tour, tan, lye 4
MISADAPTATIONS aims, pad, at, it, son 5
ANTEPENULTIMATE paten, lune, it, team 4
DISENFRANCHISEMENT id, ferns, chains, me, ten 5
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Edited on September 25, 2023, 4:32 pm
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Posted by Charlie
on 2023-09-25 16:28:14 |
better solution
