Well, it was an interesting puzzle. The "mark" property has come up before but I didn't think
it through enough. This seems to work:
put the last word of pWhich into tFld -- popup menu with fld names
sort cards by the short id of this cd -- import order; keep first 13 cards at
front
mark
Ouch! That’s why I always charge an hourly rate,
and never quote by the job.
Here’s hoping you solve your problem soon!
Rick
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:17 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 1/1/22 11:30 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote:
>> I’ve been looking at the
I've put a little 'game' up on "sample stacks", and also on the web.
It "solves" Boggle style puzzles, i.e. you give it a 5x5 grid of
letters, and it finds all words within it, following the prescribed
rules - words are formed by moving to adjacent (including diagonal) grid
positions, and you
On 1/2/22 5:42 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
1. given we have 25 grid positions, and 25 letters (omitting 'Q'), what arrangement of letters
gives the most, or least, words.
A decade ago I found this board on the net somewhere, it claims to have a possible 3271 points
(didn't say
There seems to be some interest in the recipe content, or maybe the puzzle, given the number of
downloads. At any rate, if you downloaded already, please replace the Sort button with the
revised script:
on menupick pWhich
put the last word of pWhich into tFld
sort cards by the short id of
This is fantastic! I've often wondered how many possible words there are in any given grid. The
web interface is much better than the last time I tried one, very speedy response after the
initial load. And even that is much better than it used to be.
I'll grab the stack next. Cool.
On 1/2/22
