On 2/10/2024 12:16 PM, leflynn wrote:
> On Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 11:04:48 AM UTC-5, Carl G. wrote:
>> The Seven Dwarfs and the Tiny Room
>>
>> Fit all of the names of the seven dwarfs (DOC, GRUMPY, HAPPY, SLEEPY,
>> BASHFUL, SNEEZY, and DOPEY) into a 4 by 5 grid of cells. Put one letter
>> in each cell so that every name can be spelled by stepping from
>> cell-to-neighboring cell (orthogonally or diagonally--Boggle fashion,
>> except that cells can be revisited). Double letters ("PP" in "HAPPY"
>> and "EE" in "SNEEZY") have to be in separate neighboring cells. Because
>> of this, 20 cells is just enough room to hold all of the names.
>>
>> There is more than one solution.
>>
>> --
>> Carl G.
>>
> Nice puzzle. I'm stuck. I seem to be either happy or grumpy but not both.
> I'll keep trying.
> I think your prohibition on revisiting cells is unnecessary.
> The only names with repeated letters have them as double letters.
I specified that the cells can be revisited because I am planning on
some future puzzles in which a cell may have to be used twice for the
same word. In Boggle one cannot use a cell a second time. Since the
puzzle is very "Boggle-like", I wanted to make sure that they know that
there is a difference.
Currently I am trying to add "SNOW" and "WHITE" to a five by five grid.
Currently, I do not think that it will be possible.
Many years ago, I posted similar puzzles for numbers ("ONE", "TWO",
...), ordinals ("FIRST", "SECOND", ...), Greek letters ("ALPHA", "BETA",
...), and planets ("MERCURY", "VENUS", ...). I also posted filled-in
grids and asked people to search the grid for words and phrases (like a
word-search puzzle, but Boggle-style). The ones with the phrases I
called "Messages in a Bottle" (sometimes with a grid shaped like a bottle).