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Noke Lieu
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Reconstructing boggle
« on: Oct 20th, 2008, 12:25am » |
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I've come up with something entirely new.
(At least it is new to me...)
I imagine that many of you haveplayed boggle before- it's word game
Given the complete results from a 3x3 grid, can you reassemble the grid for me?
art arts ash arse rash trash char chart charts chars chase cost chest cosh sort rose roc tsar has she shar orchestra
(I think that's all)
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Re: Reconstructing boggle
« Reply #1 on: Oct 20th, 2008, 1:28am » |
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Assuming you didn't miss rot, it would be (barring rotation and mirroring)
e h a
c s r
o r t
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Reconstructing boggle
« Reply #2 on: Oct 20th, 2008, 5:03pm » |
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still missing it...?
But that's the answer
(oh, understand now. It's how I went through it, finding out the words that aren't there...)
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Re: Reconstructing boggle
« Reply #3 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 12:06pm » |
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S has 7 neighbours so must be in the middle. H has 3 other neighbours so cannot be in the corner.
H has neighbours CASE. remaining letters are ROTR. according ORchesTRa the three spaces not neighbouring with H (occupied by three of ROTR) must be connected to fourth space not occupied by CASE.
C cannot be at the corner as it is connected to O. So A and E must be at the corners. As A is connected to the R, the corner between H and C is occupied by E, and A is in the corner between H and R.
Both O and R are neighbours of C so T must be in the corner not neighbouring with C.
Both remaining cases (O and last R can be switched) allow all written words.
ROT, TORCH ... are just in case with R in the corner ...
TROCHE ... is just in case O in the corner ...
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Reconstructing boggle
« Reply #4 on: Oct 21st, 2008, 5:57pm » |
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wow- that's fantastic Hippo.
Is this a worthy puzzle though?
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