Re: [Game] Lingo Version 18!
Thanks, Blade!
Well, if you want to know how I did it...
I have a word list and I use grep to filter or eliminate words from it.
Since parapsychology and lieutenantship both had 0 right, then I could rule out all the words which had any of their letters in th same position.
Since congratulation had 1 right, then I filtered the list to keep only the ones which had 1 of those letters in the right place, and none of the others. That involved creating 14 separate lists and then merging them.
Now for automobilistic it was a bit more of a hassle, since it had 2 right, so I did the same procedure with every possible combination of 2 letters and created 91 files which I subsequently merged (yes, I manually typed down each of the 91 combinations).
Then I compared the results of congratulation and congratulatory. Congratulatory had 2 more wrong letters, which meant the word had no Y and at most 1 R. It also had to have an I and at least 2 Ns. At the same time, the I in congratulation had to be misplaced (because if it had been right, then congratulatory would have had 0 right letters).
Verisimilitude and traditionalist provided easy 1-right filters, but I don't see them now on my filter file so maybe I didn't use them? Once I had run all the prewvious filters I was down to 30 words, so it wasn't hard to enter those words in the calculator and check the results for all the guesses.
Shall we do an 11-letter puzzle, or a 4-letter one? I've thought of both words, so whoever posts next can choose and post a guess with the corresponding number of letters.
