juxta - Generate JuxtaPosition Word Game

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NAME

juxta - Generate JuxtaPosition word game

SYNOPSIS

juxta wordfile thirdword

Where 'wordfile' is a file containing one word per line, and 'thirdword' is the third or center word as in the example below.

DOWNLOAD

The juxta Perl script is available here:

http://www.anvilon.com/software/download/juxta

DESCRIPTION

JuxtaPosition

The object of this compact word game is to solve clues to four words. The third word is found intact amidst the letters of the first two juxtaposed words. The fourth word uses the letters remaining when the third word is removed from the juxtaposition of words 1 and 2.

Example - provided by Adrian Hoad-Reddick <hoad@hoadworks.com>

1. teeth
2.      nice
3.   ethnic
4. te      e (tee)

Suggested word lists are available from: http://www.bryson.demon.co.uk/wordlist.html

The output of this script is all possible solutions where the first and third words--and the second and third words--overlap by at least two letters.

EXAMPLES

This command:

juxta /usr/share/dict/words cool

generates a list of possible puzzles which includes:

1. waco
2.     olives
3.   cool
4. wa    ives (waives)

SEE ALSO

This script is used by the Wordly Wise Word Games by HoadWorks:

http://www.hoadworks.com/gamemenu.htm

to generate JuxtaPosition puzzles:

http://www.hoadworks.com/juxtaposition.htm

If you like these kinds of word games, you can subscribe to a daily word puzzle from HoadWorks:

http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm

AUTHOR

Eric Hammond <ehammond@thinksome.com>