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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Solitaire games
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.170751.12018@netlabs.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:07:51 GMT
- References: <Btyo5z.D8q@cs.psu.edu> <1992Sep2.204931.29320@wdl.loral.com> <92Sep2.171725edt.48031@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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- In article <92Sep2.171725edt.48031@neat.cs.toronto.edu> pedmonds@cs.toronto.edu ("Philip G. Edmonds") writes:
- : In article <1992Sep2.204931.29320@wdl.loral.com> mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:
- : >In article <Btyo5z.D8q@cs.psu.edu> morgan@math.psu.edu (Ilene Morgan) writes:
- : >>My game with license plates is to try to find a word that contains the
- : >>letters of the license plate in order, not necessarily consecutively.
- : >>For example, XPV -> expressive. My license plate used to have XPF; I never
- : >>did think of one for that.
- : >
- : >expeditefull
- : >excerptfull
- : >exemplify
- : >exemplification
- :
- : ex post facto
-
- Note this can be played competitively too. The shortest word wins.
-
- foxproof
- exprof
-
- That last one is a member of the (rather large) set of words that you
- won't find in the dictionary but that everyone understands immediately.
- Some may prefer to spell it with a hyphen, of course.
-
- Larry Wall
- lwall@netlabs.com
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