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jatill
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:20 pm    Post subject: 1 Reply with quote

On a 3x3 boggle board with 'A' in the upper-left corner, I made these words:
ABSORBENT ROBES BATE TERN

What was the board?

(question: is this type of puzzle fun and/or interesting?)
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LordKinbote
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:43 pm    Post subject: 2 Reply with quote

Yes, if the answer is unique.
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Thok
Oh, foe, the cursed teeth!



PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:41 pm    Post subject: 3 Reply with quote

This works, but isn't unique (flip it across the diagonal containing the A to get another solution.)

ATN
BER
SOB
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jatill
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:25 am    Post subject: 4 Reply with quote

Thok wrote:
This works, but isn't unique (flip it across the diagonal containing the A to get another solution.)

ATN
BER
SOB


Yeah, that's as unique as I can make it without spoiling a second letter. Time to dig up a 16 letter word for a 4x4 grid Revenge most foul!
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novice
No harm. Pun intended!



PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:37 am    Post subject: 5 Reply with quote

Surely there will always be a set of equivalent solutions that only differ through rotation or mirroring.
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LordKinbote
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:11 pm    Post subject: 6 Reply with quote

novice wrote:
Surely there will always be a set of equivalent solutions that only differ through rotation or mirroring.


Yes, I meant unique outside of those things that are outside our control.
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novice
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:02 pm    Post subject: 7 Reply with quote

Right, so Thok's solution might be unique in that sense.
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