[net.games] word permutations

janc (04/01/83)

I've been distracting myself with word permutations lately.  For example,

    6 words on 5 letters:  reaps, spear, rapes, parse, spare, pares
    5 words on 6 letters:  crates, traces, acters, caster, recast

My records are:

    letters:  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8  more
	     -------------------------------------
      words:  1   2   3   5   6   5   2   2   1

Can anyone do better?  Sure you can!  Double letters are legal, but
(lee, eel) is two words, not four.  Mail to me, I'll summarize.

				Jan D. Wolter
				!{ll1,burl}!sb1!mb2b!uofm-cv!janc