• blame [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    A word can not contain two letters next to each other from the same array.

    I think this is ambiguously phrased. Does this mean that a word can’t contain two letters, regardless of their position in the word, that are next to each other in a given array? or does it mean that the word can’t have two letters neighboring each other in the word that are from the same array? For example the word EAT has E and T from array 1 and they are neighboring in the array but not in the word. Is it valid or invalid?

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      6 months ago

      It doesn’t matter. The “AI” will fail just about any and all of the criteria as you go through iterations. Try it yourself. It will even fail BOTH of your examples of what that can mean, which is a feat a human would not do. A human would choose one and stick with it.

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          6 months ago

          So a better way to phrase that “rule” might be:

          Two letters from the same array may not be next to each other in a word.

          This could only be interpreted in one way by a human. If you tried to interpret it in thew way that two letters may not be next to each other in the array, well, that doesn’t make sense. As soon as you have more than 1 letter in an array they will be next to other letters in the array. So it could only be interpreted as regarding the placement of the letters in the chosen word(s) for the solution.