Keyboard scramble
I’m very much addicted to ’scramble’ at the moment - it’s a facebook version of boggle. The scary thing is that it has gotten me rearranging the letters of pretty much everything i look at now. eek!
my latest quest has been to find the longest english word that you can make on a qwerty keyboard using boggle rules. I have a 5 letter word so far… any advances??
September 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I presume qwertyuiop is not permitted, even though it is in the Oxford English Dictionary…
(qwertyuiop, n. and adj.
DRAFT REVISION June 2008
A. n. The sequence of letters on the top row of letter keys on a standard English-language keyboard. Cf. QWERTY n.
B. adj. = QWERTY adj.)
Reply to SamCohen
September 25th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I can see how ‘letters’ can be a noun and ’sequence’ can be a noun…and even how ’sequence of letters’ can be a compound noun… but qwertyuiop??! That not a noun!! its a … well… sequence of letters.
but then you cant argue with the dictionary! i think you might have it Samo.
Mine was Sawed.
Reply to reuben
September 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Are greek words and doubling up letters allowed?
huioi?
Reply to SamR
September 28th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
no. stop trying to cheat people!!
1 mark for creativity though sam.
Reply to reuben
September 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
did you get ’sixty’?
Reply to marty
September 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
letters have to join marty, so movements are to another letter above below or diagonal…
although it would be interesting to know what the biggest word you could make by rearranging the letters on the keyboard is.
trampolines comes to mind.
Reply to reuben
October 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
they do join, yep
Reply to marty
October 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
6ty?
Reply to reuben
October 1st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
clever, huh
even though you clearly say letters not numbers, I play by own rules
Reply to marty
October 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
you are a law unto yourself, marty frost…
clever though. i’ll give you that
Reply to reuben