[Peter Jamieson]

solving such a puzzle would be trivial.

Would be trivial for whom?

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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
So (if only 7-letter words are allowed) this grid also yields CANKERY.

Puzzle magazines have a puzzle in which you reconstruct a quote from a
grid like that (each column contains a bunch of letters over a bunch
of blanks that the letters are to be dropped into), but they never
have as few as three lines -- solving such a puzzle would be trivial.

Unless this is an exercise in an elementary English textbook, surely
the Yahtzee or Boggle rules are needed to make the game interesting.

On Sep 20, 8:09 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Ah, one from column A, one from column B, etc. I couldn't imagine!

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"SoNouveau" wrote in message

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The rules are simply one letter at a time, left to right. And it does
spell
LANTERN. Thanks, though.
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Unless your rules involve some other connection than horizontal,
vertical, and diagonal, that grid doesn't give LANTERN. It does,
though, give CANKER. And the name LAMBERT.
On Sep 19, 5:31 pm, SoNouveau
wrote:
I'm doing some work with games. We generate about 2,100 WORDS from a
grid of
3 letters by 7 letters:
T O I T S N Y
L R M B O R T
C A N K E A N
Only ONE word (!) is supposed to be correctly spelled when all is said
and
done (in this case, LANTERN).
So, I create a list of all the various combinations of letters in
Excel, by
concatenation.
Then I cut and paste the 2,100 words into Word--and it does spell
checks for
me.
BUT, it's VERY hard to pick out the 1, 2, 3, or 4 CORRECTLY spelled
words as
I scan all 2,000 words. (And I do this again and again.)
I want to make sure I don't miss any!!!! So, what I really want is to
highlight in yellow, say, all the incorrect words or ... SOMEHOW, be
able to
sort/format/or whatever so that correctly spelled words are easy to
pick out
from these long columns of words.
Is that clear AT ALL!?!? LOL-