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- 24 September, 1995
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- It occurred to me that it would be nice for the computer to be able to solve
- those maddening "Jumblegram" scrambled word games found in daily newspapers,
- mostly near the comic sections. Programming this required only slight modifi-
- cations of the ANAGRAM code. No big deal.
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- To use UNSCRAMBLE, just type: UNSCR xxxxxxx, where xxxxxxx is the letter set
- to unscramble. The unscrambled words will be printed to the screen, not to a
- disk file, since there will likely be only one, or at most two or three
- "solutions". The master word list, WORD.LST is searched.
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- The UNSCRAMBLE utility also works with other word lists in addition to the
- master word list, WORD.LST. For example, to use it with the LONGWORD.LST
- given as a premium to registered WORDY users, type: UNSCR xxxxx longword.lst.
- Note that the word list used must be in ASCII and in the format of one word
- per line terminated by a carriage return. Both the WORD.LST and the LONGWORD.
- LST meet this criterion.
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- The UNSCRAMBLE utility now accepts wild cards (blank tiles). For example, to
- unscramble the rack rkongi?, with the '?' representing a blank tile, type:
- UNSCR RKONGI?
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- UNSCRAMBLE can also restrict the words found to those containing a specified
- letter at a given position in the words. As an example, suppose the letter
- rack is ORWKNI? (? is a blank, of course). You need a word ending in R. Type
- UNSCR OWKNI?7R
- Only the word WONKIER will be listed, the only one constructed from the rack
- with an R in position 7 (the end of the word). The rule is that invoking the
- UNSCR utility with UNSCR xxxxxxNy, where N is a digit and xxxxxx and y are
- letters picks only those words using xxxxxx with y in the Nth position in the
- words. Note that this letter-position restriction feature is optional. If you
- find it confusing, just invoke UNSCR in the "normal" way. However, you are
- encouraged to experiment with this option. It is very useful if you are play-
- ing Scrabble (tm) in a multi-tasking environment, such as UNIX* or MS Windows
- (tm) and with to "cheat" by invoking the UNSCR utility in a separate window.
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- The entire WORDY package still costs only $2.00 (cheap!) to register. Such a
- deal. Registered users will receive as a bonus the LONGWORD.LST, a list of
- 171,000+ words over 8 letters long.
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- M\Cooper
- PO Box 237
- St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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- E-mail: thegrendel@theriver.com
- Web: http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
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- Scrabble is a trademark of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc.
- MS Windows is a trademark of Microsoft.
-
- WORDY (pd) is *not* a trademark, and may not be trademarked. It is in the
- Public Domain, which means it belongs to everyone.
-
- *Note that UNIX-compatible versions of UNSCR and the other WORDY utilities
- will soon be available. Contact the author if you are interested.
-