{"id":209,"date":"2004-11-09T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/a-better-anagram-solver\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T05:45:28","slug":"a-better-anagram-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/a-better-anagram-solver\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Anagram Solver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You end up solving a lot of anagrams when <a HREF=\"http:\/\/geocaching.com\">Geocaching<\/a>. Any strange-looking title is probably an anagram (and a hint). Often the hint is an anagram or parts of the description. Some caches are even <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/seek\/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCDB97\">entirely anagrams<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There are a <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wordsmith.org\/anagram\/\">number<\/a> <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mbhs.edu\/~bconnell\/cgi-bin\/anagram.cgi\">of<\/a> <a HREF=\"http:\/\/titus.ssynth.co.uk\/~gay\/anagram.html\">tools<\/a> out there to solve anagrams, but they all seem to try to spit out every possible combination of words which is impossibe to sort through. I got frustrated with them, so I decided to write my own, partially based on code from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/scrabble\">The Scrabble Rack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/anagram\">My tool<\/a> is an incremental solver, allowing you to pick likely words and refine, producing much more managable list of words to review. <\/p>\n<p>It even works <a HREF=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/anagram\/?letters=boulter\">for me<\/a> (notice the longest word).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You end up solving a lot of anagrams when Geocaching. Any strange-looking title is probably an anagram (and a hint). Often the hint is an anagram or parts of the description. Some caches are even entirely anagrams. There are a number of tools out there to solve anagrams, but they all seem to try to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/a-better-anagram-solver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;A Better Anagram Solver&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}