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Re:Can you crack a code? by SonicSoul on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:27AM (#5650207)
can you elaborate ? longest word appears to be 9 letters which has a lot of matches.
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Re:Can you crack a code? by brandan on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:38AM (#5650283)
http://www.design215.com/toolbox/wordpattern.php

it's a pattern search, not just a character count search. check the instructions and examples, they're pretty straight-forward.

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Re:Can you crack a code? by SonicSoul on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:59AM (#5650429)
wow. of course! that worked like a charm. this just made my week :)
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Re:Can you crack a code? by ColinWright on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:31AM (#5650232)
It's nine letters, but there are repeats in specific places. Letters 1 and 6 are the same, 3 and 5 are the same, 4 and 9 are the same, limiting your options.
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Re:Can you crack a code? by SonicSoul on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:33AM (#5650251)
agreed but how can such a pattern be entered into a scrabble word finder?
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Re:Can you crack a code? by ColinWright on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:39AM (#5650291)
No idea about that because I've never used one - I just rolled my own from python.
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