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CONGRATULATIONS TO
JACO CRONJE for Genetic_grouper
WINNER OF THE WORDSEARCH POTM !!!!
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Notes on construction of the final problem.
Sat Jan 1 11:53:07 EST 2000
Happy New Year!! 101 entered
288 asked for details.
1876 are on the mailing list!
Congratulations to Jaco Cronje of South Africa for his winning entry.
I'll be sending around the final problem to those who entered, and
you'll soon receive the list of most coveted consolation prizes.
Once again, thanks to all who participated - especially the 39
entries that actually generated an answer for the final problem!!!
=Fred
ENTRY LETTERS WORDS TIME LANG NAME
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Genetic_grouper 1215 230 579.98 gC Jaco Cronje
Tessellate 1182 180 308.38 gc Brian Raiter
SeekAndYeShallFind 1146 159 599.14 gC Randy Saint
Hitman 1146 230 590.16 C Michael Strauch
Eccl_6_11 1141 172 541.00 PERL Phil Sallee
scrabblebabble 1132 251 590.00 gC Barney Ross
word_finder_general 1128 158 .19 c Joachim Smith
snakes_nest 1119 278 589.10 gC Frederic vanderPlancke
wordmine 1098 162 .51 c V. Raghavan
Desperation 1083 311 554.94 C Pham Hai
seeker 1081 158 149.27 C Greg Youngdahl
SuperCyborg 1072 249 .05 c Navin Pai
Greedy_dummy 1040 252 17.02 gC Jaco Cronje
Consolation_Prize 1026 270 .13 c William Little
AntiBoggle 993 180 1.21 gc Sofiya Vasina
Search_and_Rescue 985 289 420.72 gC Mark Engelberg
playing_god 970 187 25.19 gc T.Saha R.Bhatia
The_Drunken_Lexicographer 963 218 8.22 gc Ken Weinert
GridWorm 961 217 .23 C Viswanathan Lakshmi
EagleEye 954 256 558.44 gC Ionel Santa
Redundant 950 264 2.20 c Andrew Gauld
Word_Quest 946 232 2.73 gC Mike Maxim
WORDWORM 945 248 440.58 PYTH Mike Sweeney
The_Boswell_Alien 927 255 176.67 PERL David Nicol
GumpSearch 841 264 .20 C Dave Gushurst
wordsearch 841 264 8.93 gc Chris Smith
Star_Words 817 179 .77 gC Lourenco Arnasalon
exhaustive_searcher 816 262 .06 gC Ha Nguyen
Box_With_Mouthfuls 815 277 292.56 JAVA Alexandr Ermolaev
The_Sword 759 335 1.60 C Jeffrey Rainy
NEWS1 586 38 590.85 JAVA I. Ogla
NEWS 586 38 595.00 c Aivars Zogla
DRAW_HER_COS 500 82 .16 gC Raghotham Murthy
Threader 475 80 549.73 gC Richard Taylor-Kenny
kwyjibo 443 37 255.38 c Steve Rospo
The_Quantum_Leap_Accelerator425 65 599.52 gC Rick Bischoff
NEWS2 325 13 596.79 PERL Vars Gla
fw1 192 25 599.00 c Dale Swift
snakepit 101 2 3.99 c Koder Wannabe
(and - in alphabetical order)
AtALoss4Words 0 0 0 gc Scott August
Athyagrahi 0 0 0 gC Madhu Kurup
Babysteps 0 0 0 gc Terje Kristensen
BoggleBuster 0 0 0 gC John Aughey
Breaking_the_Puzzle 0 0 0 c Nabeel Mohammed
BuildSquareQuilts 0 0 0 C Sergey Kondrachshenko
Finn 0 0 0 PYTH Emil Ong
Four_Eyes 0 0 0 gC Ossama Abdel-Hamid
GridFondler 0 0 0 gC Bryan Slatner
Gridley_DoWrite 0 0 0 gC Jeff Stone
Im_Getting_Dizzy 0 0 0 C Scott Matthesen
LetterRip 0 0 0 JAVA Michael Rios
Lexomaniac 0 0 0 C Austin Green
Microword_Soft_99 0 0 0 gC Boris Bulayev
Millenium_Bug 0 0 0 c Petros Tsantoulis
My_Working_Wordsearch 0 0 0 gC Joel Donovan
My_first_POTM 0 0 0 c Alex Geevarghese
OED 0 0 0 c Martin Fouts
PI 0 0 0 gC Amir Shimoni
PathFinder 0 0 0 c Fabio Pistolesi
SHIVA99 0 0 0 C Sourav Chakraborty
Search-a-delic 0 0 0 gC Kevin Schuetz
Seattle_Slew 0 0 0 c David Morgan
Snake 0 0 0 c Kris Kenis
Spread 0 0 0 gC Tran Cong_Thu
StPaulisQuilt 0 0 0 JAVA Carl Burke
Twisted_SeArChOr 0 0 0 gC Marcin Mika
Vspikeman 0 0 0 C Spiros Mourgoyiannis
We_Be_Searchin 0 0 0 c Tim Brierley
Websters_Nightmare 0 0 0 gC Joshua X
Where_Is_My_Word 0 0 0 gC Mike Arsenault
Windbag 0 0 0 gC Guy Smith
Word-O-Matic 0 0 0 c Peter Szkiela
WordSkop 0 0 0 C Pavlodar AlauTransGaz
WordStir 0 0 0 gC Pete Wells
WordWiggler 0 0 0 C Don Kirkby
Wordofobia 0 0 0 gc Henco Cronje
Wordsearch 0 0 0 gC John Swift
bfai 0 0 0 gc Sam Holden
bon_mot 0 0 0 PERL John Linderman
brutus 0 0 0 gC Hampus Weddig
chomp_words 0 0 0 c Andre Wilhelmus
cookie_monster 0 0 0 c Vasilis Vasaitis
eQiNoX 0 0 0 gc Vinod Pathangay
eRaZOr 0 0 0 c eRaZ0r X
frogstar 0 0 0 PERL Kurt Van_den_Branden
i_am_searching_in_the_night 0 0 0 c Vangelis Rokas
lotto2000 0 0 0 c Luc Kumps
mycelium 0 0 0 C Doug McIlroy
skateword 0 0 0 c Arkady Zhikharev
trietrieagain 0 0 0 PERL Hank Turowski
vanderZilla 0 0 0 c POTM Junkie
wheres_waldo 0 0 0 gC Daniel Klein
word2k 0 0 0 gC Colin Rafferty
wordStrider 0 0 0 c Michael Mossey
word_winds 0 0 0 gc Alice McRae
wordhunt 0 0 0 gC David Wells
ws 0 0 0 c Bernard Hatt
zmiy 0 0 0 c Serge Sivkov
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