Timeline for Create a Homophone Word Search
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| S Sep 5, 2022 at 9:56 | history | bounty ended | JLee | ||
| S Sep 5, 2022 at 9:56 | history | notice removed | JLee | ||
| S Sep 3, 2022 at 21:16 | history | bounty started | JLee | ||
| S Sep 3, 2022 at 21:16 | history | notice added | JLee | Reward existing answer | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 18:19 | vote | accept | JLee | ||
| Sep 3, 2022 at 17:58 | answer | added | ACB | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 9:03 | comment | added | JLee | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 8:30 | comment | added | JLee | @ACB A word being in there twice does not make the answer(s) invalid. There are 2 cases. Case #1: multiple answers are possible that fit the numbers in the grid. In that case, I'd say the puzzle was poorly designed and shouldn't have allowed multiple answers. Case #2: There's only 1 one answer that fits the grid, but 1 or more words might be in there multiple times. As long as only one of those words fits the #s, then that is the solution. Nothing is invalidated. If you select the other "nine" in the original puzzle, it is not a solution because it doesn't fit the numbers. | |
| Sep 3, 2022 at 7:13 | comment | added | ACB | (Good news) I have a logical path (bad news) to prove that there's no solution at all ! I considered strict constraints such as counting every word as it appears i.e. count TEA in both TEAM and TEAR, so no one can cheat by only counting the word they want. In that manner, the answer to your original question also becomes invalid for the reason you've mentioned in a comment there. Btw, I didn't attempt to solve the other problem. | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | JLee | @ACB Yep. I don't like the quality of this puzzle if there is not a unique solution. I wish I could spend more time on it now, but work calls. | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 15:10 | comment | added | ACB | Haha! Puzzle maker is trapped inside his own puzzle...! And the answer to your question is 'yes'. But that seems unfair, because we can choose the answer we want. | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | JLee | @ACB I am trying to solve this right now also. It is very hard. If you count TEA in only one of the words, does it fit the number pattern? | |
| Sep 2, 2022 at 14:25 | comment | added | ACB | Seems like I made a mistake, well, I don't know. I have the same question which Bailey has asked years ago$\uparrow$. I am not sure if my answer is valid since if you count TEA in both words, my answer is wrong. However, I will not give up :) | |
| Sep 1, 2022 at 21:25 | comment | added | JLee | @ACB haven't looked at this in 7 years. Solution lost when computer crashed years ago. Maybe i will get time to solve it. Thx for reminding me with your comment. | |
| Sep 1, 2022 at 16:50 | comment | added | ACB | After some really tough time with trial-and-error,('cause there was no obvious logical path) I came up with a solution, and immediately with some other possiblities, showing that the answer is not unique! | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:50 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/ with https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 20:00 | comment | added | JLee | @BaileyM Oh I see. I counted them only once, else I would have to list that word twice, I think. In other words, every letter of each of the 15 words was counted exactly once. Make sense? | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | Bailey M | Ahh, the question I should be asking is: Are tea's letters counted in both tear and team, or just in one of them? | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 19:52 | comment | added | JLee | @BaileyM Logically, tea must appear at least twice, right? Tee could appear twice. I don't think there are any others though. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 19:45 | comment | added | Bailey M | Are you positive that each word only shows up once in the puzzle? | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 4:53 | answer | added | Bob | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 4:22 | history | edited | JLee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added color to the picture and made it a bit less annoyingly large
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 4:21 | comment | added | JLee | @JoeZ. Yes, that's quite a hint in itself | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 4:18 | comment | added | user88 | How does the bottom-left square have four words passing through it? There's only 3 directions for words to go. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 4:14 | history | asked | JLee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |