--- In [email protected], "Mark" <secret.squirrel@...> wrote:
Actually, my proposition was to make rearrangement obligatory to
compensate for the general loss of challenge occurring if
rearrangement was to be an optional, helpful 2nd laser / time
dimension. With obligation there is no shortcut, thus no penalty
point;
My score for [TANK - gnat - fang - FLAG] is again 3, and You may now
exclaim in norse remorse:
"Herregökarimej, tre på tafsen!"
By the way: I have heard (Alas! read only) "Z'ounds", but where the
bell does "foiled again" come from? No Latin there, huh? ;)
I prefer the simpler Carroll version. Rearranging, if allowed, should
be obligatory. Just for fun, one could turn a few knobs:
* Rearrangement is obligatory
* All letters are to be rearranged (or changed?) in every turn
* All letters are to be changed (Even "A" in TANK-...-FLAG must
change))
* All letters must have occupied all positions (an equal number of
times?) before chain ends
* ...
...and so the sum of possible Doublets diminishes.
...and as so often, pleasure is perversedly reversedly proportionate
to practicability ;}
(The passage on Carroll keeping score was of mere interest, not
relevant. For Mr. Dodgson, there was no doubt pure problem-solving
delight in fashioning a reciprocal method of counting.)
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> > rearrangement obligatory: TANK - gnat - fang - FLAG ;P(*blushes* It is really Your chain, somewhat recast...)
> Nice twist! Probably a more meritorious solution but by your own
> count it scores 6. What's Swedish for "Zounds, foiled again!"? :-)
Actually, my proposition was to make rearrangement obligatory to
compensate for the general loss of challenge occurring if
rearrangement was to be an optional, helpful 2nd laser / time
dimension. With obligation there is no shortcut, thus no penalty
point;
My score for [TANK - gnat - fang - FLAG] is again 3, and You may now
exclaim in norse remorse:
"Herregökarimej, tre på tafsen!"
By the way: I have heard (Alas! read only) "Z'ounds", but where the
bell does "foiled again" come from? No Latin there, huh? ;)
I prefer the simpler Carroll version. Rearranging, if allowed, should
be obligatory. Just for fun, one could turn a few knobs:
* Rearrangement is obligatory
* All letters are to be rearranged (or changed?) in every turn
* All letters are to be changed (Even "A" in TANK-...-FLAG must
change))
* All letters must have occupied all positions (an equal number of
times?) before chain ends
* ...
...and so the sum of possible Doublets diminishes.
...and as so often, pleasure is perversedly reversedly proportionate
to practicability ;}
>> [on how to count skwiirol nuts]Exactly - we are following LT rules.
> This is a little cumbersome and I prefer moves=pts, least pts wins.
(The passage on Carroll keeping score was of mere interest, not
relevant. For Mr. Dodgson, there was no doubt pure problem-solving
delight in fashioning a reciprocal method of counting.)
There is a cookie left. Split?
ChD