Showing posts with label Vox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vox. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2008

The latest VOX puzzle

Here's my take:

Fate in a Pleasant Mood

Fast pain load eon team
Atom filo ate pane sand
Teal moan is pea fan dot
Entail pasta moon fade
Inate fad also mope tan
Noodle peasant fat it
Aim sane eat plant food
Pesto fail neat man ado
Leap feast noon aid tam
Eel stand foot main pan
Anode fin atlas at poem
Steam toad an foal pine
Aloft mode naan pa site
Nine fatal date asp moo
Tame poodle na fa saint
Mated oaf Spain la tone
Of pita doe as lan meant
Om opal fatten asea din
Data panel soon mi feta

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Vox's Game

I spent some time today messing with Vox's puzzle. I found it most entertaining. You get well bonused for bigger words, but sometimes when you use a longer word, the remaining letters are very difficult to use up, and you get harshly penalized for that. One way of simplifying the scoring in terms of word repetition, might be to allow repeated words (which you would use only to avoid the penalty for not using all letters), but not give any points for them at all. I'm not 100% sure I'm solving this correctly, but the best way to find out is to post a solution. For scoring, I'm assuming that if you use a word, then on another line use the plural form of the same word, they count as different words. I'm not offering any guarantees that my scoring is 100% accurate... Here is my first stab at it:

KADAVERGEHORSAMKEIT

KHARMA GREAVES DO KITE (62)
AVERAGES KEITH DRAM KO (64)
DRAKE STEAK VIM RAGE OH (49)
ARK DRAKE MIGHT VEE SO A (46)
VARIEGATED SHARK ME KO (74.5)
EMERGER KID STOKE HA A (52.5)
RIK GREEK SHAVE DATA OM (49)
GO MARKETERS HIKED AVA (69)
EVA KHAKIS GOMER TRADE (57)
HOMER RAKED KIT GAVE AS (49)
OTHERS DARK MAKE GAVE I (52)
ROVED KITER SKA HAG ME A (43.75)
SHAD TAKER EVOKER MIG A (52.06)
ASTHMA EVOKE RAKER DIG (57)
MAVOR STAKER HID GEEK A (52.03)
KHAKI STEAMER DOVE RAG (59)
ESTRIDGE MAKO HARK EVA (59)
IRK MARKET SHAVE AGE DO (49.5)
TRIKE REVOKED MASA HAG (56)

Total=1052.34