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GeneralThat elusive fifth letter - updated Pin
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In a fit of boredom, I began wondering how many "5th letter" possibilities there could be (i.e. I have four greens and one unknown.)
So I spent a few minutes bashing around the standard linux word list with the usual suspects - grep, awk, tr, sort and uniq.
I found 5 cases where there are 9 possibilities:
*akes *inks *owed *ucks *umps
(I'm sure NYT would disallow some choices in at least one of them Poke tongue | ;-P )
Interesting that they are all first position wildcards. From 8s down, wildcards appear in other positions.
30 cases of 8 possibilities... (not all verified, and since the original list includes many proper names, there may be a few spurious entries.)

================ update ==============
Blush | :O Blush | :O Blush | :O tricked by default sort

Two 12's, two 11's, twelve 10's...
12: *ears *ills
11: *ails *ates
10: *acks *ales *ared *ares *ells *ends *ests *icks *ight *ines *ocks *ulls

All >=9's are first position...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012


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