Bøger af Francis Gurtowski

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Fill in the solution given two layers of the solution in turn, given moreover first the palettes of the spellings and then their alphabetized anagrams.In effect, you get two at bats against each puzzle.The first layer reveals the contents of the tail cells in niches oriented both ways, across and down.The second layer reveals the contents of the caboose cells in niches oriented one way or the other, across or down, not both.Fill in the solution given two layers of the solution in turn, given moreover first the palettes of the spellings and then their alphabetized anagrams.In effect, you get two at bats against each puzzle.The first layer reveals the contents of the tail cells in niches oriented both ways, across and down.The second layer reveals the contents of the caboose cells in niches oriented one way or the other, across or down, not both.Beyond Anagrams ISBN-13: 979-8585854880 is the definitive reference for Crypto Crossword.By "palette" I mean a spelling shorn of duplicate instances of letters.Such essences are as far beyond anagrams as anagrams are beyond words.The twenty-six letters of the alphabet are the ultimate palette, but I know of no such word employing at least one instance of each.The longest palettes I could find are fourteen letters in length: abcehlmorstuxy abceilmnorstuy abdeilmorstuxy acdefhilmnortu acdeghilmortuy acefilmnoprstv aceghilmnoprty aceghilnoprsuy acegilmorstuvy acehilmnoprtuy adeghilmnostyz adehilnoprstuz adeilmnorstuvy aeghilmnortuwy bcehilmnoprsty cdeghilmnopruy ceghilnoprstuy.For example, bcehilmnoprsty is the palette of this threesome: comprehensibility incomprehensibility intercomprehensibility.I culled 74,582 mid-length words (from five to twelve letters in length) from a batch of 85,086 words (from two to twenty-five letters long).I use this curatorial subset of words first as clues and ultimately as solutions in a new genre of games of crisscrossed words.The 10,504 words dropped are too short or too long for my purposes.I prefer the gamesmanship within the Goldilocks Zone of words.I am left with 42,356 palettes, 69,563 anagrams and 74,582 words.The entire palette-anagram-word hierarchy is enumerated in this reference volume.As a last resort, look up in the forest of trees the clues to the aforementioned puzzles.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Rubik Crossword: a puzzle consisting of a grid with overlapping niches and a schedule of the instances of the letters belonging in the coincident or separate squares of said niches, the object being to tile the squares with letters spelling out words.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

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