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Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word.

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Subject Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word.
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:34:15 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>     Suppose someone games your choice of algorithms by choosing words
>to give bad results by those algorithms.


I understood the game to allow me to know the list of words in the bag
before I start play. Is that correct?
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Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-05-31 09:26 -0700
  Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 09:44 -0700
  Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-31 10:43 -0700
    Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-05-31 11:34 -0700
      Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-01 02:55 -0700
        Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 09:34 -0700
          Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-01 11:58 -0700
            Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 12:46 -0700
          Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-01 12:45 -0700
            Re: Slightly off-topic: Determining the strength of "Hangman" word. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 13:46 -0700

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