Talk:Lexicon Crossing

The quest for a 10+ scoring game...

• Four words can have 4 scoring tiles (square). Thus a maximum of 40 points. 40/4=10.
• Five words can have 6 scoring tiles (adjacent squares). This is a maximum of 56 points. 56/5=11.2
• Six words can have 9 scoring tiles (crosshatch). This is a maximum of 77 points. 77/6=12.8

Both 5 and 6 word solutions rely on a few words having three scoring tiles, so let's concentrate our search there.

How many words have three tiles that score 4+ and which are seperated by at least one tile

egrep '(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W)' CSW12_wordsonly.txt | wc -l
5005

...seperated by exactly one tile:

egrep '(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W)' CSW12_wordsonly.txt | wc -l
413

...seperated by more than one, but at least one is Z, Q, X or J...

egrep '(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W)' CSW12_wordsonly.txt | egrep '(Z|Q|X|J)' | wc -l 1320

...some of those words could be removed because they have too many of a single letter...

egrep '(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W).{1,}(Q|Z|X|J|K|V|F|H|Y|W)' CSW12_wordsonly.txt | egrep '(Z|Q|X|J)'  | egrep -v '(Q.*Q.*Q|Z.*Z.*Z|X.*X.*X|J.*J.*J|K.*K.*K|V.*V.*V)' | wc -l 1313

These 1313 words should be the basis of our search.