I’m certain I have committed stylistic faux pas and performance blundersĪnd other heresies 1. If we got here, all letters are in the puzzle, so Is_valid, we can just check each character one-by-one in aĬandidate word to see if it’s valid: found_center_letter = False Our algorithm isĪgain, doing the first thing we can think of to define Or whatever, and rip through it, checking every word. Load up a dictionary, like from /usr/share/dict/words The first thing that comes to mind is our baseline. How would you write a computer program to Some valid words for the puzzle above, if you’re on the app:įinally every spelling bee has at least one “pangram”: a word that It’s fine for a word to use letters multiple times. They must always use the center golden letter at least.They must only use letters found in the grid. They must be at least 5 letters long (or 4, if you’re playing on the.Your goal is to spell words using the letters in the little hexagonal I’ve used it as a way toįorce myself to write some actual, semi-practical Rust code for the I’ve found it to be a neat little exercise. I’ve been thinking about that one in particular, and The New York Times has a pretty good puzzle called the A chunk of that time has been on puzzles, and a chunk of it hasīeen on thinking about algorithms to solve the puzzles quickly. While taking care of my newborn son, I’ve had a lot of time on my Solving the New York Times Spelling Bee Solving the New York Times Spelling Bee
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