When I was a young boy, I played the silver ball .... oooops Wrong subject. lol
Anyway, back in the early days of computers, one of the first games that was created for them was "Scrambled Eggs" where a word is scrambled and you have to figure out what the word is. You get a score based on time and number of guesses. Problem was, sometimes a group of letters could be more than one word. We also looked at the game where you make as many words from another word as you can. Combining these 2 games is sort of like the modern game called "Text Twist".
That got us nerds thinking of some problems: At the time we stuck with 6 letters due to the speed of the computers we had at our disposal (main frames the size of a house)
1 - Are there any groups of letters (3 or more) that spell a legal word (in an English language dictionary) in every combo?
For instance TEA, EAT, ATE. This fails on TAE and ETA and AET so it doesn't work.
2 - Are there any groups of 6 letters that no other words can be formed from of 3 letters or more? (Never found one)
3 - What group of 6 letters forms the most 6 letter words? (6 was the most we words we came up with)
4 - What group of 6 letters forms the most 3 or more letter words total? (We had one that was 33 words)
Here is the deal, these questions have never been answered because everytime we thought we had them, we found out we were wrong.
This one is wide open for anybody wanting to have a go at it. Love to see what other people come up with.
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When I was a young boy, I played the silver ball .... oooops Wrong subject. lol
Anyway, back in the early days of computers, one of the first games that was created for them was "Scrambled Eggs" where a word is scrambled and you have to figure out what the word is. You get a score based on time and number of guesses. Problem was, sometimes a group of letters could be more than one word. We also looked at the game where you make as many words from another word as you can. Combining these 2 games is sort of like the modern game called "Text Twist".
That got us nerds thinking of some problems: At the time we stuck with 6 letters due to the speed of the computers we had at our disposal (main frames the size of a house)
1 - Are there any groups of letters (3 or more) that spell a legal word (in an English language dictionary) in every combo?
For instance TEA, EAT, ATE. This fails on TAE and ETA and AET so it doesn't work.
2 - Are there any groups of 6 letters that no other words can be formed from of 3 letters or more? (Never found one)
3 - What group of 6 letters forms the most 6 letter words? (6 was the most we words we came up with)
4 - What group of 6 letters forms the most 3 or more letter words total? (We had one that was 33 words)
Here is the deal, these questions have never been answered because everytime we thought we had them, we found out we were wrong.
This one is wide open for anybody wanting to have a go at it. Love to see what other people come up with.
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