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- THE GAME OF WORD JUMBLE (c) (vers. 1.5)
- J. Munoz
- 75564,2721
-
- JUMBLE:
- The Jumble word game is very simple. The player is presented with a word whose letters
- are "jumbled" up. The object of the game is to "simply" correctly unscramble the
- letters to obtain the original word.
-
- For example, the player might be presented with the followed jumbled text:
-
- tca
-
- A good guess might be the word "cat"... and you'd be correct! Here's another word:
-
- lefi
-
- Give up?... the word is "life". Be careful, there are combinations of letters that do spell more
- than one legitimate word, but only one of those words is valid when the scrambled letters are
- presented. For example, the following letters:
-
- alpm
-
- could represent the word "palm" or the word "lamp". While they are each legitimate words,
- only one of the words would be found to be correct by the game at that instant.
-
- PLAYING THE GAME:
- Simply use the mouse to select "Word" under the Game menu item. A scrambled up set of
- letters will be presented in a dialog box. You may then enter your guess into the edit box
- presented and then either hit the OK button or press Enter at your keyboard. If you give up...
- then click on the "Give Up" box (click OK or press Enter)... the unscambled word will then be
- displayed to you (no cheating allowed).
-
- To select a new word or if you do not wish to guess, then click on the Cancel button.
- To exit from the game, select Exit from the Game menu item.
-
- INSTALLING THE GAME:
- The zip file should contain the following files:
-
- jumble.exe This is the JUMBLE game executable
- dict Contains the list of words from which JUMBLE selects words to be scrambled
- bc40rtl.dll Required dynamic link libs
- bwcc.dll
- jumble.txt This text
-
- The two dll files (bc40rtl and bwcc) should be copied to the windows\system directory.
- The JUMBLE executable (jumble.exe) and the word list (dict) should be copied to any directory
- of your choice (but both should be in the same directory). To play the game, simply
- double-click on the jumble.exe file... or drag & drop the executable into the program group of
- your choice.
-
- That's it!!
-
- Enjoy.... this is freeware, have FUN!
-
- J. Munoz
-
- Note: Beware! The number of possible guesses grows factorially with the number of letters
- in the word. This means that while a 3 letter word has only 6 possible combinations (3x2x1=6):
-
- Example:
- cta
- cat
- tac
- tca
- atc
- act
-
- A four letter word has 24 possible combinations... a 5 letter word has 120 combinations, and a
- 6 letter word has 720 combinations! So, I'm sure you want to know how many combinations
- for a 10 letter word, such as "government" ..... 3,628,800!!! Assuming each guess takes about
- 5 secs, this would represent around 1 year and 8 months working at it for 8 hours/day!
-
- So, just wild guesses could take a rather long time!!
-
- Error Log:
- Vers. 1.5 corrected/changed the following from version 1.0:
- a. Made call to BWCCRegister() for Borland controls
- b. Automatically selected a new word if a correct word was inserted.
- c. Kept a count of the number of guesses.
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