Objectives

1. Identify the 15 most common letters in the list
2. Find all words that use all 15 letters in the list

Ideas

• Rank of a word is the sum of the offsets of each letter in the list of 15 words. Example:

  • Best letters:
    • s - 0
    • e - 1
    • a - 2
    • o - 3
    • r - 4
    • i - 5
    • l - 6
    • t - 7
    • n - 8
    • u - 9
    • d - 10
    • c - 11
    • y - 12
    • p - 13
    • m - 14
  • Word: abase would have rank:
    • a: 2
    • b: 100
    • a: 2
    • s: 0
    • e: 1
    • total: 105

• Find potential words recursively

  • Start with all words from the letter s
  • Find all words in letter e, then a that don't have an s in them
  • Recurse finding all words that have unique letters and use all 15 of the best letters