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excerpt: "A very popular syndicated newspaper feature is JUMBLE, a word puzzle involving four jumbled words which need to be unjumbled, then a master word made up of letters from the first four. My problem with this puzzle was one of frustration; I usually gave up before I finally was able to unjumble all the words.…"
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# Solving Jumbled Word Puzzles

A very popular syndicated newspaper feature is JUMBLE, a word puzzle involving four jumbled words which need to be unjumbled, then a master word made up of letters from the first four. My problem with this puzzle was one of frustration; I usually gave up before I finally was able to unjumble all the words. Now Ken Duda has done me, and all our readers who enjoy this puzzle a favor by writing a program that will keep reshuffling the letters in a word for you until you can identify a real word. Also included is a recent copy of the puzzle for you to practice with. Type in the the letters for a word once, then just press any key, and the computer keeps switching the letters around until you figure the word out. To enter in a new word, hit Cap/Shift & BREAK, then RUN the program again.

## Source Code

```
  10 POKE 23658,8: REM CAPS LOCK
  20 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS
  30 PRINT AT 10,2;"HOW MANY LETTERS? (5 OR 6)"
  40 INPUT A
  50 IF A=6 THEN GO TO 250
  60 CLS
  70 PRINT AT 2,9; INK 2;"S H U F F L E"
  80 GO SUB 430
  90 PRINT AT 20,3; INK 1;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
 100 INPUT B$
 110 GO SUB 200
 120 LET c$=""
 130 FOR I=1 TO 5
 140 LET R= INT (5* RND )+1 
 150 IF B$ (R)="0" THEN GO TO 140 
 160 LET C$=C$+B$(R)+" " 
 170 LET B$ (R)="0" 
 180 NEXT I 
 190 PRINT AT 10, 11; INK 6;C$: GO TO 220 
 200 LET Z$=B$ 
 210 RETURN 
 220 LET B$=Z$ 
 230 PAUSE 0 
 240 GO TO 110 
 250 CLS: PRINT AT 2,9; INK 2; "S H U F F L E"
 260 GO SUB 430 
 270 PRINT AT 20,3; INK 1; "PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE" 
 280 INPUT B$ 
 290 GO SUB 380 
 300 LET C$="" 
 310 FOR I=1 TO 6 
 320 LET R= INT (6*, RND) +1 
 330 IF B$ (R)="0" THEN GO TO 320 
 340 LET C$=C$+B$(R)+" " 
 350 LET B$(R) ="0" 
 360 NEXT I 
 370 PRINT AT 10, 10; INK 6;C$: GO SUB 430: GO TO 400 
 380 LET Z$=B$ 
 390 RETURN 
 400 LET B$=Z$ 
 410 PAUSE 0 
 420 GO TO 290 
 430 INK 7: PLOT 72, 103: DRAW 103,0: DRAW 0, -25: DRAW - 103,0: DRAW 0,25 
 440 RETURN 
 450 SAVE "SHUFFLE" LINE 10
```