Q: What is the most number of letters that can be fit into a three by three grid of words, such that no letter is repeated in any row, column or diagonal?
- A
- Games magazine ran a contest on this. The winner had 62
proxying| buckwash | veldt
stumbled| j | zincography
whack | providently | bumfs
- Here are some good tries
backsword |thumpingly | fez
vexingly | q | throwbacks = 61
thump | beadworks | jingly
backsword | thumpingly| vex
vexingly | q | throwbacks = 60
thump | bedrocks | flying
subjack |downrightly| fez
novelwright| q | backups = 59
pyx | subface | downright
krafts | exhuming | blowzy ----------+-----------+----------- phylum | j | transfixed = 56 ----------+-----------+----------- vexing | folkways | chump
klutz | cymograph | fend ----------+-----------+----------- exscind | j | kymograph = 54 ----------+-----------+----------- myograph |flunked | vibs
**** Unless noted otherwise, all words occur in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Springfield, MA, 1961.