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This tag is used with generating or solving word search puzzles (where words are hidden in a grid of letters) as well as generally searching words matching certain conditions in a collection of words.

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How to make crossword type puzzle in flutter?

I can't get the word on which the user dragged with his finger. I cannot choose the areas I touch in any way.I see the markers are not working.I only get the first touch when dragging. The alphabets and the correct word is coming.In terms of…
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Objective-C jumbled letters solver

I am trying to create this app on the iphone that given 6 letters, it would output all the possible 3-6 letter english words. I already have a dictionary, I just want to know how to do it. I searched around and only found those scrabble solvers in…
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How to determine number of matches from list in a string without spaces?

I have a list with string fruits = ["apple", "orange", "grape"] and a string that's missing whitespace str = "ilikeapplesandoranges" What's an efficient way of counting how many words from fruits exist in str? For the example above, it would be 2,…
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Word Search using depth-first search

I am working a word search problem. I correctly implemented dfs search but there is trival error somewhere else. For the word in this list ["oath","pea","eat","rain"], "oath" and "eat" can be found in the board: [ ['o','a','a','n'], …
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4x4 Word Grid - Java

How would you go about searching if a word exist in a 4x4 Grid of random letters(A-Z).Can someone lead me into the right direction of an effective way of tackling this problem. Here are the conditions: Words are formed from adjoining letter words…
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Building a wordsearch generator in python

I am creating a word search generator in Python, but i'm having a problem with the words appearing the grid. When the grid is made, the coordinates are there for one of the letters but not the whole word. I'm not sure which parts going wrong, any…
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Scrabble word finder in C#

What I'm trying to do right now is take a user input, and check a text file to see if you can make any of the words in the text file out of the input entered. For example, if I entered "noqmopu", the output would…
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Searching the first few characters of every word within a string in C#

I am new to programming languages. I have a requirement where I have to return a record based on a search string. For example, take the following three records and a search string of "Cal": University of California Pascal Institute California…
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What exactly are "anchors" in this scrabble algorithm?

I'm trying to implement this algorithm: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15451-s06/www/lectures/scrabble.pdf but I just cannot figure out what exactly those anchor squares are (first mentioned in 3.1.2 and then in 3.3). I know candidates…
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RecyclerView Wild Drag in Android WordSearch Game

I have an Android crossword game made purely in Java, and i want to add WordSearch game to it. I used RecyclerView with GridLayout Manager and so far i've managed to do this wordsearch screenshot the problem is, i can't prevent wild drag. meaning i…
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simple word search java 2d arrays

Im a begginner and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what im doing wrong here with this word search ? im stuck on checking each row for a word specified in the formal argument, currently it doesnt do any checks of any sort its jst a basic…
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Check if a word already guessed or inputted

I am trying to make a word search game in C, of which a user will guess/input a word and the program will check if the word is existing and valid. How can I check if the word inputted by a user is already printed/inputted? I'm really confused if…
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Why this code is not working properly for keyword search?

I have read the following code from kaggle exercises. The aim of the code for the function multi_word_search(documents1, keywords1) is to show the string indices in documents1 that contain certain words in keywords1. For example if documents1 =…
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Drawing only horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in Android

I'm developing a wordsearch game. Table Layout contains textviews. Textviews display the characters. When the user finds a word in any one of the 8 directions: TopToBottom, BottomToTop, LeftToRight, RightToLeft, TopToBottomRight, BottomToTopLeft,…
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Create Word Search game in Visual Basic 2010

i want to create a Word Search game using Visual Basic? I've already started it by creating grids (10x10). However, I do not know how to properly insert the words that the user will search for. Here's a look at what I did as well as the codes.10x10…
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