Patrick Blogs for Curious People » programming http://patrickbarry.com/blog Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:32:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Alphabet Soup for the Soul http://patrickbarry.com/blog/1256462168 http://patrickbarry.com/blog/1256462168#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:56:00 +0000 http://blog.patrickbarry.com/post/1256462168 Continue reading →]]> The other day I wanted to make a wicked anagram for my name, since all the cool kids are doing it. But the internets gave me crappy “anagram generators” that just spewed out a bunch of gibberish that was impossible to navigate through or customize, so I wrote my own anagram generator.

It’s very simple:

Then you get a clickable list of all the words that can be made from that set of letters. If you put in my name, you get:

Clicking the words uses up those letters and adjusts the list accordingly. Even a little 2 letter word can dramatically reduce the number of options you need to consider:

Furthermore, it becomes clear very quickly if you won’t be able to use that really awesome big word:

And if you DO use all your remaining letters, you get a prize.

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