JW Spelling Bee 1: Unicorns and Other Oddities
Spelling Bee Unicorns and Other Oddities The word JUKEBOX is a unicorn in the New York Times puzzle Spelling Bee. It's one of 5 unicorns (my label) in Spelling Bee, and it has the honor of being the most unicorn (unicorniest?) of the bunch, for reasons I'll explain later. I got hooked on Spelling Bee earlier this year. It's a game in which you try to make as many words as possible out of 7 given letters. I'm also a Mathematica nerd, and I started dreaming up ways that Mathematica could help me analyze Spelling Bee puzzles. My first foray into Spelling Bee programming was to write code that gives all possible solutions to a given puzzle ( https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/jeffw/SpellingBee ). I wrote it so that it could run on my phone, which was handy for me because I usually do Spelling Bee while eating breakfast. For those of you who immediately thought, "That's just cheating," I will note that I use the program as a tool of last resort -- to find remain