From: Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@...>
Date: 2007-01-02T05:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Word Search (#107)

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Oh, and btw. wrt the "overflow" mechanism the actual quiz solution  
looks like this:

+++R++++++
++++++++++
ROC+++++++
++K+++++++
+S+++++++M
+++++++DAN
+++++++T++
++++++Z+++
++++++++++
YBU+++++++

Note, that I don't try to find multiple solutions.

Cheers,
Mariano
On Jan 1, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Mariano Kamp wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   nice quiz ... Not too time intensive ;-)
>
> On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Ruby Quiz wrote:
>> Today's quiz would've been most useful in elementary school, where  
>> over half of
>> the homework assignments were word search puzzles. The concept of  
>> these puzzles
>> is simple enough that an elementary school student could  
>> understand it:  given a
>> box of letters, find a line containing the letters of a specified  
>> word in order.
>
> I attached my solution. See test_ruby_quiz. Please be gentle ;-)
>
>> 	* An output format superior to the one given. The output format  
>> given
>> 	  should remain the default unless both formats don't differ on a
>> 	  textual basis. That should sound cryptic until pondered, I can't
>> 	  give too much away!
> I like the current format.
>
>> 	* Allow for "snaking" of answers, in other words, the letters
>> 	  composing a word don't have to be in a straight line.
> It allows for snaking, see "test_snake", and also for matches that  
> leave the field on one side and comes back on another, e.g. YRUB.  
> See test_overflow.
>
>> 	* An option to give a hint, i.e., "The word ruby traverses the  
>> bottom
>> 	  left and bottom right quadrants."
> nah.
>
>> 	* Decide what to do with accented letters.
> Didn't implement that either.
>
>> 	* Allow for wildcard letters.
> Didn't go all the way like using regexp, but  "*" is allowed as a  
> wild card character.
>
> Funny enough, my Sudoku solution took less lines than this one ...
>
> Cheers,
> Mariano
>
> <word_search_test.rb>
> <word_search.rb>


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