I wrote my solver in C++. I implemented a custom tree structure. I'm not sure it can be considered a trie but it's similar. Each node has 26 branches, 1 for each letter of the alphabet. I traverse the branches of the boggle board in parallel with the branches of my dictionary. If the branch does not exist in the dictionary, I stop searching it on the Boggle board. I convert all the letters on the board to ints. So 'A' = 0. Since it's just arrays, lookup is always O(1). Each node stores if it completes a word and how many words exist in its children. The tree is pruned as words are found to reduce repeatedly searching for the same words. I believe pruning is also O(1).

CPU: Pentium SU2700 1.3GHz 内存:3 gb

在< 1秒内加载178,590个单词的字典。 在4秒内解决100x100 Boggle (Boggle .txt)。约44000字。 解决4x4 Boggle游戏的速度太快，无法提供有意义的基准。：）

快速Boggle求解GitHub回购

当我看到问题陈述时，我想到了“Trie”。但看到其他一些海报使用了这种方法，我寻找另一种不同的方法。可惜的是，Trie方法表现更好。我在我的机器上运行了Kent的Perl解决方案，在调整它以使用我的字典文件后，它花了0.31秒运行。我自己的perl实现需要0.54秒才能运行。

这就是我的方法:

Create a transition hash to model the legal transitions. Iterate through all 16^3 possible three letter combinations. In the loop, exclude illegal transitions and repeat visits to the same square. Form all the legal 3-letter sequences and store them in a hash. Then loop through all words in the dictionary. Exclude words that are too long or short Slide a 3-letter window across each word and see if it is among the 3-letter combos from step 2. Exclude words that fail. This eliminates most non-matches. If still not eliminated, use a recursive algorithm to see if the word can be formed by making paths through the puzzle. (This part is slow, but called infrequently.) Print out the words I found. I tried 3-letter and 4-letter sequences, but 4-letter sequences slowed the program down.

在我的代码中，我使用/usr/share/dict/words作为我的字典。它是MAC OS X和许多Unix系统的标准配置。如果你愿意，你可以使用另一个文件。要破解不同的谜题，只需更改变量@puzzle。这将很容易适应更大的矩阵。你只需要改变%transitions哈希值和%legalTransitions哈希值。

这种解决方案的优点是代码短，数据结构简单。

下面是Perl代码(我知道它使用了太多的全局变量):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Time::HiRes  qw{ time };

sub readFile($);
sub findAllPrefixes($);
sub isWordTraceable($);
sub findWordsInPuzzle(@);

my $startTime = time;

# Puzzle to solve

my @puzzle = ( 
    F, X, I, E,
    A, M, L, O,
    E, W, B, X,
    A, S, T, U
);

my $minimumWordLength = 3;
my $maximumPrefixLength = 3; # I tried four and it slowed down.

# Slurp the word list.
my $wordlistFile = "/usr/share/dict/words";

my @words = split(/\n/, uc(readFile($wordlistFile)));
print "Words loaded from word list: " . scalar @words . "\n";

print "Word file load time: " . (time - $startTime) . "\n";
my $postLoad = time;

# Define the legal transitions from one letter position to another. 
# Positions are numbered 0-15.
#     0  1  2  3
#     4  5  6  7
#     8  9 10 11
#    12 13 14 15
my %transitions = ( 
   -1 => [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15],
    0 => [1,4,5], 
    1 => [0,2,4,5,6],
    2 => [1,3,5,6,7],
    3 => [2,6,7],
    4 => [0,1,5,8,9],
    5 => [0,1,2,4,6,8,9,10],
    6 => [1,2,3,5,7,9,10,11],
    7 => [2,3,6,10,11],
    8 => [4,5,9,12,13],
    9 => [4,5,6,8,10,12,13,14],
    10 => [5,6,7,9,11,13,14,15],
    11 => [6,7,10,14,15],
    12 => [8,9,13],
    13 => [8,9,10,12,14],
    14 => [9,10,11,13,15],
    15 => [10,11,14]
);

# Convert the transition matrix into a hash for easy access.
my %legalTransitions = ();
foreach my $start (keys %transitions) {
    my $legalRef = $transitions{$start};
    foreach my $stop (@$legalRef) {
        my $index = ($start + 1) * (scalar @puzzle) + ($stop + 1);
        $legalTransitions{$index} = 1;
    }
}

my %prefixesInPuzzle = findAllPrefixes($maximumPrefixLength);

print "Find prefixes time: " . (time - $postLoad) . "\n";
my $postPrefix = time;

my @wordsFoundInPuzzle = findWordsInPuzzle(@words);

print "Find words in puzzle time: " . (time - $postPrefix) . "\n";

print "Unique prefixes found: " . (scalar keys %prefixesInPuzzle) . "\n";
print "Words found (" . (scalar @wordsFoundInPuzzle) . ") :\n    " . join("\n    ", @wordsFoundInPuzzle) . "\n";

print "Total Elapsed time: " . (time - $startTime) . "\n";

###########################################

sub readFile($) {
    my ($filename) = @_;
    my $contents;
    if (-e $filename) {
        # This is magic: it opens and reads a file into a scalar in one line of code. 
        # See http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/11/21/slurp.html
        $contents = do { local( @ARGV, $/ ) = $filename ; <> } ; 
    }
    else {
        $contents = '';
    }
    return $contents;
}

# Is it legal to move from the first position to the second? They must be adjacent.
sub isLegalTransition($$) {
    my ($pos1,$pos2) = @_;
    my $index = ($pos1 + 1) * (scalar @puzzle) + ($pos2 + 1);
    return $legalTransitions{$index};
}

# Find all prefixes where $minimumWordLength <= length <= $maxPrefixLength
#
#   $maxPrefixLength ... Maximum length of prefix we will store. Three gives best performance. 
sub findAllPrefixes($) {
    my ($maxPrefixLength) = @_;
    my %prefixes = ();
    my $puzzleSize = scalar @puzzle;

    # Every possible N-letter combination of the letters in the puzzle 
    # can be represented as an integer, though many of those combinations
    # involve illegal transitions, duplicated letters, etc.
    # Iterate through all those possibilities and eliminate the illegal ones.
    my $maxIndex = $puzzleSize ** $maxPrefixLength;

    for (my $i = 0; $i < $maxIndex; $i++) {
        my @path;
        my $remainder = $i;
        my $prevPosition = -1;
        my $prefix = '';
        my %usedPositions = ();
        for (my $prefixLength = 1; $prefixLength <= $maxPrefixLength; $prefixLength++) {
            my $position = $remainder % $puzzleSize;

            # Is this a valid step?
            #  a. Is the transition legal (to an adjacent square)?
            if (! isLegalTransition($prevPosition, $position)) {
                last;
            }

            #  b. Have we repeated a square?
            if ($usedPositions{$position}) {
                last;
            }
            else {
                $usedPositions{$position} = 1;
            }

            # Record this prefix if length >= $minimumWordLength.
            $prefix .= $puzzle[$position];
            if ($prefixLength >= $minimumWordLength) {
                $prefixes{$prefix} = 1;
            }

            push @path, $position;
            $remainder -= $position;
            $remainder /= $puzzleSize;
            $prevPosition = $position;
        } # end inner for
    } # end outer for
    return %prefixes;
}

# Loop through all words in dictionary, looking for ones that are in the puzzle.
sub findWordsInPuzzle(@) {
    my @allWords = @_;
    my @wordsFound = ();
    my $puzzleSize = scalar @puzzle;
WORD: foreach my $word (@allWords) {
        my $wordLength = length($word);
        if ($wordLength > $puzzleSize || $wordLength < $minimumWordLength) {
            # Reject word as too short or too long.
        }
        elsif ($wordLength <= $maximumPrefixLength ) {
            # Word should be in the prefix hash.
            if ($prefixesInPuzzle{$word}) {
                push @wordsFound, $word;
            }
        }
        else {
            # Scan through the word using a window of length $maximumPrefixLength, looking for any strings not in our prefix list.
            # If any are found that are not in the list, this word is not possible.
            # If no non-matches are found, we have more work to do.
            my $limit = $wordLength - $maximumPrefixLength + 1;
            for (my $startIndex = 0; $startIndex < $limit; $startIndex ++) {
                if (! $prefixesInPuzzle{substr($word, $startIndex, $maximumPrefixLength)}) {
                    next WORD;
                }
            }
            if (isWordTraceable($word)) {
                # Additional test necessary: see if we can form this word by following legal transitions
                push @wordsFound, $word;
            }
        }

    }
    return @wordsFound;
}

# Is it possible to trace out the word using only legal transitions?
sub isWordTraceable($) {
    my $word = shift;
    return traverse([split(//, $word)], [-1]); # Start at special square -1, which may transition to any square in the puzzle.
}

# Recursively look for a path through the puzzle that matches the word.
sub traverse($$) {
    my ($lettersRef, $pathRef) = @_;
    my $index = scalar @$pathRef - 1;
    my $position = $pathRef->[$index];
    my $letter = $lettersRef->[$index];
    my $branchesRef =  $transitions{$position};
BRANCH: foreach my $branch (@$branchesRef) {
            if ($puzzle[$branch] eq $letter) {
                # Have we used this position yet?
                foreach my $usedBranch (@$pathRef) {
                    if ($usedBranch == $branch) {
                        next BRANCH;
                    }
                }
                if (scalar @$lettersRef == $index + 1) {
                    return 1; # End of word and success.
                }
                push @$pathRef, $branch;
                if (traverse($lettersRef, $pathRef)) {
                    return 1; # Recursive success.
                }
                else {
                    pop @$pathRef;
                }
            }
        }
    return 0; # No path found. Failed.
}

对VB不感兴趣?:)我忍不住了。我解决这个问题的方法不同于这里提出的许多解决方案。

我的时间是:

将字典和单词前缀加载到哈希表:.5到1秒。 找单词:平均不到10毫秒。

编辑:web主机服务器上的字典加载时间比我的家用电脑长1到1.5秒。

我不知道随着服务器负载的增加，时间会恶化到什么程度。

我把我的解决方案写成了。net的网页。myvrad.com/boggle

我用的是原题中提到的字典。

字母在单词中不能重复使用。只找到3个字符或以上的单词。

我使用所有唯一的单词前缀和单词的哈希表，而不是一个trie。我不知道什么是trie，所以我学到了一些东西。除了完整的单词之外，创建单词前缀列表的想法最终使我的时间减少到一个可观的数字。

阅读代码注释以获得更多详细信息。

代码如下:

Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.IO

Partial Class boggle_Default

    'Bob Archer, 4/15/2009

    'To avoid using a 2 dimensional array in VB I'm not using typical X,Y
    'coordinate iteration to find paths.
    '
    'I have locked the code into a 4 by 4 grid laid out like so:
    ' abcd
    ' efgh
    ' ijkl
    ' mnop
    ' 
    'To find paths the code starts with a letter from a to p then
    'explores the paths available around it. If a neighboring letter
    'already exists in the path then we don't go there.
    '
    'Neighboring letters (grid points) are hard coded into
    'a Generic.Dictionary below.



    'Paths is a list of only valid Paths found. 
    'If a word prefix or word is not found the path is not
    'added and extending that path is terminated.
    Dim Paths As New Generic.List(Of String)

    'NeighborsOf. The keys are the letters a to p.
    'The value is a string of letters representing neighboring letters.
    'The string of neighboring letters is split and iterated later.
    Dim NeigborsOf As New Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String)

    'BoggleLetters. The keys are mapped to the lettered grid of a to p.
    'The values are what the user inputs on the page.
    Dim BoggleLetters As New Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String)

    'Used to store last postition of path. This will be a letter
    'from a to p.
    Dim LastPositionOfPath As String = ""

    'I found a HashTable was by far faster than a Generic.Dictionary 
    ' - about 10 times faster. This stores prefixes of words and words.
    'I determined 792773 was the number of words and unique prefixes that
    'will be generated from the dictionary file. This is a max number and
    'the final hashtable will not have that many.
    Dim HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords As New Hashtable(792773)

    'Stores words that are found.
    Dim FoundWords As New Generic.List(Of String)

    'Just to validate what the user enters in the grid.
    Dim ErrorFoundWithSubmittedLetters As Boolean = False

    Public Sub BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords(ByVal ThisPath As String)
        'Word is the word correlating to the ThisPath parameter.
        'This path would be a series of letters from a to p.
        Dim Word As String = ""

        'The path is iterated through and a word based on the actual
        'letters in the Boggle grid is assembled.
        For i As Integer = 0 To ThisPath.Length - 1
            Word += Me.BoggleLetters(ThisPath.Substring(i, 1))
        Next

        'If my hashtable of word prefixes and words doesn't contain this Word
        'Then this isn't a word and any further extension of ThisPath will not
        'yield any words either. So exit sub to terminate exploring this path.
        If Not HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords.ContainsKey(Word) Then Exit Sub

        'The value of my hashtable is a boolean representing if the key if a word (true) or
        'just a prefix (false). If true and at least 3 letters long then yay! word found.
        If HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords(Word) AndAlso Word.Length > 2 Then Me.FoundWords.Add(Word)

        'If my List of Paths doesn't contain ThisPath then add it.
        'Remember only valid paths will make it this far. Paths not found
        'in the HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords cause this sub to exit above.
        If Not Paths.Contains(ThisPath) Then Paths.Add(ThisPath)

        'Examine the last letter of ThisPath. We are looking to extend the path
        'to our neighboring letters if any are still available.
        LastPositionOfPath = ThisPath.Substring(ThisPath.Length - 1, 1)

        'Loop through my list of neighboring letters (representing grid points).
        For Each Neighbor As String In Me.NeigborsOf(LastPositionOfPath).ToCharArray()
            'If I find a neighboring grid point that I haven't already used
            'in ThisPath then extend ThisPath and feed the new path into
            'this recursive function. (see recursive.)
            If Not ThisPath.Contains(Neighbor) Then Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords(ThisPath & Neighbor)
        Next
    End Sub

    Protected Sub ButtonBoggle_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonBoggle.Click

        'User has entered the 16 letters and clicked the go button.

        'Set up my Generic.Dictionary of grid points, I'm using letters a to p -
        'not an x,y grid system.  The values are neighboring points.
        NeigborsOf.Add("a", "bfe")
        NeigborsOf.Add("b", "cgfea")
        NeigborsOf.Add("c", "dhgfb")
        NeigborsOf.Add("d", "hgc")
        NeigborsOf.Add("e", "abfji")
        NeigborsOf.Add("f", "abcgkjie")
        NeigborsOf.Add("g", "bcdhlkjf")
        NeigborsOf.Add("h", "cdlkg")
        NeigborsOf.Add("i", "efjnm")
        NeigborsOf.Add("j", "efgkonmi")
        NeigborsOf.Add("k", "fghlponj")
        NeigborsOf.Add("l", "ghpok")
        NeigborsOf.Add("m", "ijn")
        NeigborsOf.Add("n", "ijkom")
        NeigborsOf.Add("o", "jklpn")
        NeigborsOf.Add("p", "klo")

        'Retrieve letters the user entered.
        BoggleLetters.Add("a", Me.TextBox1.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("b", Me.TextBox2.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("c", Me.TextBox3.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("d", Me.TextBox4.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("e", Me.TextBox5.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("f", Me.TextBox6.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("g", Me.TextBox7.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("h", Me.TextBox8.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("i", Me.TextBox9.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("j", Me.TextBox10.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("k", Me.TextBox11.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("l", Me.TextBox12.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("m", Me.TextBox13.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("n", Me.TextBox14.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("o", Me.TextBox15.Text.ToLower.Trim())
        BoggleLetters.Add("p", Me.TextBox16.Text.ToLower.Trim())

        'Validate user entered something with a length of 1 for all 16 textboxes.
        For Each S As String In BoggleLetters.Keys
            If BoggleLetters(S).Length <> 1 Then
                ErrorFoundWithSubmittedLetters = True
                Exit For
            End If
        Next

        'If input is not valid then...
        If ErrorFoundWithSubmittedLetters Then
            'Present error message.
        Else
            'Else assume we have 16 letters to work with and start finding words.
            Dim SB As New StringBuilder

            Dim Time As String = String.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}:{3}", Date.Now.Hour.ToString(), Date.Now.Minute.ToString(), Date.Now.Second.ToString(), Date.Now.Millisecond.ToString())

            Dim NumOfLetters As Integer = 0
            Dim Word As String = ""
            Dim TempWord As String = ""
            Dim Letter As String = ""
            Dim fr As StreamReader = Nothing
            fr = New System.IO.StreamReader(HttpContext.Current.Request.MapPath("~/boggle/dic.txt"))

            'First fill my hashtable with word prefixes and words.
            'HashTable(PrefixOrWordString, BooleanTrueIfWordFalseIfPrefix)
            While fr.Peek <> -1
                Word = fr.ReadLine.Trim()
                TempWord = ""
                For i As Integer = 0 To Word.Length - 1
                    Letter = Word.Substring(i, 1)
                    'This optimization helped quite a bit. Words in the dictionary that begin
                    'with letters that the user did not enter in the grid shouldn't go in my hashtable.
                    '
                    'I realize most of the solutions went with a Trie. I'd never heard of that before,
                    'which is one of the neat things about SO, seeing how others approach challenges
                    'and learning some best practices.
                    '
                    'However, I didn't code a Trie in my solution. I just have a hashtable with 
                    'all words in the dicitonary file and all possible prefixes for those words.
                    'A Trie might be faster but I'm not coding it now. I'm getting good times with this.
                    If i = 0 AndAlso Not BoggleLetters.ContainsValue(Letter) Then Continue While
                    TempWord += Letter
                    If Not HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords.ContainsKey(TempWord) Then
                        HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords.Add(TempWord, TempWord = Word)
                    End If
                Next
            End While

            SB.Append("Number of Word Prefixes and Words in Hashtable: " & HashTableOfPrefixesAndWords.Count.ToString())
            SB.Append("<br />")

            SB.Append("Loading Dictionary: " & Time & " - " & String.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}:{3}", Date.Now.Hour.ToString(), Date.Now.Minute.ToString(), Date.Now.Second.ToString(), Date.Now.Millisecond.ToString()))
            SB.Append("<br />")

            Time = String.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}:{3}", Date.Now.Hour.ToString(), Date.Now.Minute.ToString(), Date.Now.Second.ToString(), Date.Now.Millisecond.ToString())

            'This starts a path at each point on the grid an builds a path until 
            'the string of letters correlating to the path is not found in the hashtable
            'of word prefixes and words.
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("a")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("b")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("c")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("d")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("e")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("f")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("g")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("h")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("i")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("j")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("k")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("l")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("m")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("n")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("o")
            Me.BuildAndTestPathsAndFindWords("p")

            SB.Append("Finding Words: " & Time & " - " & String.Format("{0}:{1}:{2}:{3}", Date.Now.Hour.ToString(), Date.Now.Minute.ToString(), Date.Now.Second.ToString(), Date.Now.Millisecond.ToString()))
            SB.Append("<br />")

            SB.Append("Num of words found: " & FoundWords.Count.ToString())
            SB.Append("<br />")
            SB.Append("<br />")

            FoundWords.Sort()
            SB.Append(String.Join("<br />", FoundWords.ToArray()))

            'Output results.
            Me.LiteralBoggleResults.Text = SB.ToString()
            Me.PanelBoggleResults.Visible = True

        End If

    End Sub

End Class

如何简单的排序和使用字典中的二进制搜索?

在0.35秒内返回整个列表，并可以进一步优化(例如删除含有未使用字母的单词等)。

from bisect import bisect_left

f = open("dict.txt")
D.extend([line.strip() for line in f.readlines()])
D = sorted(D)

def neibs(M,x,y):
    n = len(M)
    for i in xrange(-1,2):
        for j in xrange(-1,2):
            if (i == 0 and j == 0) or (x + i < 0 or x + i >= n or y + j < 0 or y + j >= n):
                continue
            yield (x + i, y + j)

def findWords(M,D,x,y,prefix):
    prefix = prefix + M[x][y]

    # find word in dict by binary search
    found = bisect_left(D,prefix)

    # if found then yield
    if D[found] == prefix: 
        yield prefix

    # if what we found is not even a prefix then return
    # (there is no point in going further)
    if len(D[found]) < len(prefix) or D[found][:len(prefix)] != prefix:
        return

    # recourse
    for neib in neibs(M,x,y):
        for word in findWords(M,D,neib[0], neib[1], prefix):
            yield word

def solve(M,D):
    # check each starting point
    for x in xrange(0,len(M)):
        for y in xrange(0,len(M)):
            for word in findWords(M,D,x,y,""):
                yield word

grid = "fxie amlo ewbx astu".split()
print [x for x in solve(grid,D)]

最快的解决方案可能是将字典存储在一个trie中。然后，创建一个三元组队列(x, y, s)，其中队列中的每个元素对应于一个可以在网格中拼写的单词的前缀s，结束于位置(x, y)。初始化队列中有N x N个元素(其中N是网格的大小)，网格中的每个正方形都有一个元素。然后，算法进行如下:

While the queue is not empty:
  Dequeue a triple (x, y, s)
  For each square (x', y') with letter c adjacent to (x, y):
    If s+c is a word, output s+c
    If s+c is a prefix of a word, insert (x', y', s+c) into the queue

如果将字典存储在trie中，则可以在常数时间内测试s+c是否是单词或单词的前缀(前提是还在每个队列数据中保留一些额外的元数据，例如指向trie中当前节点的指针)，因此此算法的运行时间为O(可拼写的单词数量)。

[编辑]下面是我刚刚编写的Python实现:

#!/usr/bin/python

class TrieNode:
    def __init__(self, parent, value):
        self.parent = parent
        self.children = [None] * 26
        self.isWord = False
        if parent is not None:
            parent.children[ord(value) - 97] = self

def MakeTrie(dictfile):
    dict = open(dictfile)
    root = TrieNode(None, '')
    for word in dict:
        curNode = root
        for letter in word.lower():
            if 97 <= ord(letter) < 123:
                nextNode = curNode.children[ord(letter) - 97]
                if nextNode is None:
                    nextNode = TrieNode(curNode, letter)
                curNode = nextNode
        curNode.isWord = True
    return root

def BoggleWords(grid, dict):
    rows = len(grid)
    cols = len(grid[0])
    queue = []
    words = []
    for y in range(cols):
        for x in range(rows):
            c = grid[y][x]
            node = dict.children[ord(c) - 97]
            if node is not None:
                queue.append((x, y, c, node))
    while queue:
        x, y, s, node = queue[0]
        del queue[0]
        for dx, dy in ((1, 0), (1, -1), (0, -1), (-1, -1), (-1, 0), (-1, 1), (0, 1), (1, 1)):
            x2, y2 = x + dx, y + dy
            if 0 <= x2 < cols and 0 <= y2 < rows:
                s2 = s + grid[y2][x2]
                node2 = node.children[ord(grid[y2][x2]) - 97]
                if node2 is not None:
                    if node2.isWord:
                        words.append(s2)
                    queue.append((x2, y2, s2, node2))

    return words

使用示例:

d = MakeTrie('/usr/share/dict/words')
print(BoggleWords(['fxie','amlo','ewbx','astu'], d))

输出:

['fa', 'xi', 'ie', 'io', 'el', 'am', 'ax', 'ae', 'aw', 'mi', 'ma', 'me', 'lo', 'li', 'oe', 'ox', 'em', 'ea', 'ea', 'es', 'wa', 'we', 'wa', 'bo', 'bu', 'as', 'aw', 'ae', 'st', 'se', 'sa', 'tu', 'ut', 'fam', 'fae', 'imi', 'eli', 'elm', 'elb', 'ami', 'ama', 'ame', 'aes', 'awl', 'awa', 'awe', 'awa', 'mix', 'mim', 'mil', 'mam', 'max', 'mae', 'maw', 'mew', 'mem', 'mes', 'lob', 'lox', 'lei', 'leo', 'lie', 'lim', 'oil', 'olm', 'ewe', 'eme', 'wax', 'waf', 'wae', 'waw', 'wem', 'wea', 'wea', 'was', 'waw', 'wae', 'bob', 'blo', 'bub', 'but', 'ast', 'ase', 'asa', 'awl', 'awa', 'awe', 'awa', 'aes', 'swa', 'swa', 'sew', 'sea', 'sea', 'saw', 'tux', 'tub', 'tut', 'twa', 'twa', 'tst', 'utu', 'fama', 'fame', 'ixil', 'imam', 'amli', 'amil', 'ambo', 'axil', 'axle', 'mimi', 'mima', 'mime', 'milo', 'mile', 'mewl', 'mese', 'mesa', 'lolo', 'lobo', 'lima', 'lime', 'limb', 'lile', 'oime', 'oleo', 'olio', 'oboe', 'obol', 'emim', 'emil', 'east', 'ease', 'wame', 'wawa', 'wawa', 'weam', 'west', 'wese', 'wast', 'wase', 'wawa', 'wawa', 'boil', 'bolo', 'bole', 'bobo', 'blob', 'bleo', 'bubo', 'asem', 'stub', 'stut', 'swam', 'semi', 'seme', 'seam', 'seax', 'sasa', 'sawt', 'tutu', 'tuts', 'twae', 'twas', 'twae', 'ilima', 'amble', 'axile', 'awest', 'mamie', 'mambo', 'maxim', 'mease', 'mesem', 'limax', 'limes', 'limbo', 'limbu', 'obole', 'emesa', 'embox', 'awest', 'swami', 'famble', 'mimble', 'maxima', 'embolo', 'embole', 'wamble', 'semese', 'semble', 'sawbwa', 'sawbwa']

Notes: This program doesn't output 1-letter words, or filter by word length at all. That's easy to add but not really relevant to the problem. It also outputs some words multiple times if they can be spelled in multiple ways. If a given word can be spelled in many different ways (worst case: every letter in the grid is the same (e.g. 'A') and a word like 'aaaaaaaaaa' is in your dictionary), then the running time will get horribly exponential. Filtering out duplicates and sorting is trivial to due after the algorithm has finished.

我已经在OCaml中实现了一个解决方案。它将字典预编译为trie，并使用双字母序列频率来消除单词中永远不会出现的边，以进一步加快处理速度。

它在0.35ms内解决了示例板的问题(额外的6ms启动时间主要与将trie加载到内存有关)。

找到的解决方案:

["swami"; "emile"; "limbs"; "limbo"; "limes"; "amble"; "tubs"; "stub";
 "swam"; "semi"; "seam"; "awes"; "buts"; "bole"; "boil"; "west"; "east";
 "emil"; "lobs"; "limb"; "lime"; "lima"; "mesa"; "mews"; "mewl"; "maws";
 "milo"; "mile"; "awes"; "amie"; "axle"; "elma"; "fame"; "ubs"; "tux"; "tub";
 "twa"; "twa"; "stu"; "saw"; "sea"; "sew"; "sea"; "awe"; "awl"; "but"; "btu";
 "box"; "bmw"; "was"; "wax"; "oil"; "lox"; "lob"; "leo"; "lei"; "lie"; "mes";
 "mew"; "mae"; "maw"; "max"; "mil"; "mix"; "awe"; "awl"; "elm"; "eli"; "fax"]