Avid readers of Word Ways may remember that I attempted a computer search for 10-by-10 word squares a number of years ago. I had a vocabulary of 55,000 ten-letter word and phrases stored in the computer, about half dictionary words and the rest names and phrases I had devised from brainstorming and free association. For example, I\u27d pick a word like carpet and think of all the things that go with it like -bags, bugs, tack, roll, shop, - less, - like, etc. My best effort, a square containing eight words from Webster\u27s Second, appearing in the February 1977 Word Ways
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Select words of n letters at random from a dictionary, one at a time. How many different words must...
In the May 1988 Word Ways I described my struggle to construct a non-tautonymic ten-square -- with l...
It is exactly five years ago since Ars Magna: The Ten-Square appeared in Word Ways. This article ...
What is the largest number of different letters that can be used in a word square? For word squares ...
Word squares have always fascinated me. From an early age I took delight in devising regular 3-by-3 ...
It has now been one year since I began my computer search for 10x10 double word square. My efforts ...
In the August 1988 Word Ways, I wrote about my plans to launch a computer attack on the 10-by-10 dou...
Recent articles by Doug McIlroy in Word Ways have demonstrated the value of the computer in discover...
A ten-square consists of ten different 10-letter words written one under another, so that the first ...
The November 1975 issue of Word Ways presented a set of 52 7-by-7 word squares that were generated b...
It is now approaching two years since I began a computer search for a 10x10 word square. Since my l...
Most readers of Word Ways know that a double word square is one in which the vertical words differ f...
At the end of my article Hunting the Ten-Square (May 2004 Word Ways) I said that about one million...
In Hunting the Ten Square in the May 2004 Word Ways, Rex Gooch mentions that Graham Toal recently ...
The history of word square construction in the United States has largely been one of the strenuous a...
Select words of n letters at random from a dictionary, one at a time. How many different words must...
In the May 1988 Word Ways I described my struggle to construct a non-tautonymic ten-square -- with l...
It is exactly five years ago since Ars Magna: The Ten-Square appeared in Word Ways. This article ...
What is the largest number of different letters that can be used in a word square? For word squares ...
Word squares have always fascinated me. From an early age I took delight in devising regular 3-by-3 ...