Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-scoring board

Re:Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-sco... by wdumaresq on Saturday May 24, 2025 @04:45PM (#44083711)

This was posted on HN about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774702

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Re:Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-sco... by dang on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:39PM (#44083960)

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

After 20 years, the globally optimal Boggle board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43774702 - April 2025 (23 comments)

How did that spend only 6 hours on HN's frontpage? I'm gonna email danvk right now

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Re:Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-sco... by robinhouston on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:03PM (#44083801)

Thanks. What's particularly embarrassing is that I found that submission this morning, and read the comments on it, and then somehow forgot about its existence until you reminded me of it just now.

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Re:Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-sco... by jonplackett on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:20PM (#44083875)

Thank you. I felt something must have been seriously wrong in the world that the FT knew this before any HN contributor.

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Re:Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle's top-sco... by noitpmeder on Saturday May 24, 2025 @07:14PM (#44084334)

The author himself was the original submitter.

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