Glad you appreciate it. Thanks a ton for the Knuth reference and word list link. You make a great point about first solving the simpler problem without consid

Glad you appreciate it. Thanks a ton for the Knuth reference and word list link. You make a great point about first solving the simpler problem without considering multiple letters per slot. For a word with N letters, there are "N-1 choose 5" ways to fit the letters of one word into 5 slots (while preserving order). This by itself is a fun little search space.