RE: Scramble puzzle

[Stephen Tavener <stephen.tavener@bbc.co.uk>]

OK, so maybe I lied...

  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 . . . . . . . . # . # . # . #
5 . . . . . . # # # # # # # # #
6 . . . . . # # # # # # # # # #
7 . . . . . . # # # # # # # # #
8 . . . . . # # # # # # # # # #
9 . . . . . . # # # # # # # # #
A . . . . . # # # # # # # # # #
B . . . . . . # # # # # # # # #
C . . . . . # # # # # # # # # #
D . . . . . . # # # # # # # # #
E . . . . . # # # # # # # # # #

... if someone can replace all the #es with legal words, and with the
outermost #es in {C,G,J,Q,V,Z} then it may be possible... now there can be
at most 13 outermost #es, of course...

Stephen Tavener
DigiText Programmer, BBC News, New Media.

Xtn: 58349/64727
Room 3225, Television Centre, Wood Lane, London. W12 7RJ
mailto:Stephen.Tavener@bbc.co.uk (Work)




-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Browne [mailto:browne@research.canon.com.au] 
Sent: 05 April 2002 03:02
To: pbmserv-users@gamerz.net
Subject: Scramble puzzle


Does anyone know if it's possible to fit 99 tiles on the Scramble board, 
forming legitimate words in accordance with the rules of Scramble, such 
that the 1 remaining tile *cannont* be placed anywhere on the board?

The 1 remaining tile must be treated as a blank, ie if any letter fits on 
the saturated board then it becomes that letter.


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