Word Search has a cross-eye error (see pic).
ENLARGE, SAMPLE & UNITS derailed when I joined their first letter to one vertically or horizontally adjacent to, and the same as, their last. The derailed answers were accepted as valid.
I couldn't get a derail other than by that 'rule'...and I only tried the forwards direction (ie, starting from a word's first letter).
The error appears in other Word Search puzzles too.
]]>It may not have done that intentionally, as I found "angle" elsewhere.
Ah, yes...I knew there was something I'd intended to do before I posted, but I'd forgotten what it was. And there it is, in the upper right-hand corner.
]]>It may not have done that intentionally, as I found "angle" elsewhere. But it let you get a score for "angle" when you found it in "triangle" because it likes you
Yes, removing such words may help.
]]>Here's an image of a puzzle that has TRIANGLE completely overlapping ANGLE in the second column. I don't know if you meant to allow this, but I think it's more usual to have just partial overlaps.
Other pairings that come to mind where this might happen: FACTOR/FACTORIAL and METER/DIAMETER. And plurals...I know your game has some, but I don't recall noticing if their singular forms also occur.
A word search generator program I have contains an "avoid word and sub-word" option that enables me to avoid having such related words appear in the same puzzle. That allows me to use custom choice lists with various forms of root words and still produce a puzzle with words that don't swallow each other or are too alike.
]]>If anyone wants to solve it in a smaller version, here. It's not perfectly readable, but I partially fixed it.
I fixed it some more and prettied it up a bit. It prints out clearly in A4 size in either portrait or landscape orientation.
An alternative to using paper and pen is to solve it in a graphics program. I just tested it in OpenOffice Draw, and it works well there. To cross out solved words in the grid and the word list I used a 4mm thick navy blue line that was set to 80% transparency (because you need to see the letters at word intersections).
Has anyone solved this puzzle yet and found the mystery phrase?
]]>Had to clean out my temporary internet files to access v0.653, as it was stll wanting to play v0.651.
The copy function works well...Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C.
]]>Thanks so much. Nice touch putting commas between the words. Makes it very easy to put them into some programming statement. Excellent work! Appreciate the effort.
Phrontister beware! Now I am just a few measly minutes behind thee.
]]>It defaults to a small game (in case user closes options screen).
And hopefully copy works for bobbym
]]>MathsIsFun wrote:Regarding "mystery word or phrase": anyone know of any good lists?
Sorry...I don't. For my puzzle in post #31 I just made one up that kept to the maths theme (I'm just waiting now for someone to solve the puzzle and to reveal the mystery phrase).
Mystery text needs to be fairly long (the one in my puzzle has 24 letters), because typically word search puzzles leave quite a few unused letters. The quantity of such letters will depend upon the mix of words and their length, and the cleverness of the program at intertwining those words while incorporating a good balance of word directions.
The number of letters in the mystery text should equal that of the unused letters, but if that's too difficult to automate maybe blanks could be used in the grid to help out. I've not seen that done before, but it might be an idea.
If anyone wants to solve it in a smaller version, here. It's not perfectly readable, but I partially fixed it.
P.S. The second image's fun. Just enter one "word" made of the same letter repeated in the "Load Words" Then you win easily.
P.P.S. The images were switched, the one mentioned in P.S. is the first one.
]]>That gets the grid letters that are inside the box but the 20 words (average, binomial, classify, cone, decade ...) in the column on the right I can't copy.
Firefox is not doing a very good job, I am bringing the grid over to an interface that is easier for my eyes. The switching of the monitor back and forth for the words consumes about 75 to 100 seconds, which I could eliminate if I could copy them once.
It is not a big deal, implement it if it is easy.
]]>If it is a matter of text size, you can use the Zoom function in your browser.
]]>I need the list ( on the right ) that contains the 20 words you are searching for. Presently I can't copy them. The copy function just gives me the grid. Unless I am missing something.
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