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Generate anagram puzzles like Frank Longo's "Spelling Bee" as in New York Times Magazine

6 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2016-02-07 · latest 2024-03-18

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  1. …| grep .... | grep e A very short program to generate all possible puzzles given a word list is at https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee .
    comment by angiosperm · 2024-03-18 · in What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?
  2. …/usr/share/dict/words | grep .... | grep e A program to generate all possible NYTM SB puzzles is at https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee . The alterations to match the online version are trivial. It runs in well under 100 ms on a…
    comment by angiosperm · 2024-03-18 · in What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?
  3. See puzzlegen.cc in https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee/ Order of magnitude improvement.
  4. …puzzles was of no interest, but refining the means to produce it faster taught me a great deal. [1] https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee
  5. …finds about 4.8k puzzles, for 14us per. (Nowadays they run puzzles that score as low as 20 (pfft).) https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee/ I did both C++ and Rust versions. They run in the same time. My goal was the fastest…
  6. …the intermediate code emitted by clang/rustc instead of the final machine code emitted by gcc.) [1] https://github.com/ncm/nytm-spelling-bee/blob/master/Makefil...
    comment by jasode · 2016-02-07 · in Rust vs. C++: Fine-grained Performance