Problem 2358. Word Search Solver

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Guillaume on 12 Jun 2014

On the 2nd board, 'ice' can be found at position [3 3 1] as tested in the suite, but also at position [2 2 3]. It'd be better to remove the ambiguity.

goc3 on 13 Jun 2014

Thanks for the catch. I just fixed it. I'll be extra cautious the next time that I use short words in a word search...

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 13 Jun 2014

This solution would fail in certain boards. Can you add such a board to your testsuite?... this is a new variant of Cody: create a problem for the problem-creator... :)

J.R.! Menzinger on 29 Jun 2014

HAHAHAHA

Master!!

Mr. Grant should take your quest... on that way maybe I reach the "leader score" for this problem! :-P

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