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"]

给定一个有N行M列的Boggle板，让我们假设如下:

N*M基本上大于可能单词的数量 N*M基本上大于可能的最长单词

在这些假设下，该解的复杂度为O(N*M)。

我认为比较这个示例板的运行时间在很多方面都没有重点，但是为了完整性，在我的现代MacBook Pro上，这个解决方案在0.2秒内完成。

这个解决方案将为语料库中的每个单词找到所有可能的路径。

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Example usage: ./boggle-solver --board "fxie amlo ewbx astu"

autoload :Matrix, 'matrix'
autoload :OptionParser, 'optparse'

DEFAULT_CORPUS_PATH = '/usr/share/dict/words'.freeze

# Functions

def filter_corpus(matrix, corpus, min_word_length)
  board_char_counts = Hash.new(0)
  matrix.each { |c| board_char_counts[c] += 1 }

  max_word_length = matrix.row_count * matrix.column_count
  boggleable_regex = /^[#{board_char_counts.keys.reduce(:+)}]{#{min_word_length},#{max_word_length}}$/
  corpus.select{ |w| w.match boggleable_regex }.select do |w|
    word_char_counts = Hash.new(0)
    w.each_char { |c| word_char_counts[c] += 1 }
    word_char_counts.all? { |c, count| board_char_counts[c] >= count }
  end
end

def neighbors(point, matrix)
  i, j = point
  ([i-1, 0].max .. [i+1, matrix.row_count-1].min).inject([]) do |r, new_i|
    ([j-1, 0].max .. [j+1, matrix.column_count-1].min).inject(r) do |r, new_j|
      neighbor = [new_i, new_j]
      neighbor.eql?(point) ? r : r << neighbor
    end
  end
end

def expand_path(path, word, matrix)
  return [path] if path.length == word.length

  next_char = word[path.length]
  viable_neighbors = neighbors(path[-1], matrix).select do |point|
    !path.include?(point) && matrix.element(*point).eql?(next_char)
  end

  viable_neighbors.inject([]) do |result, point|
    result + expand_path(path.dup << point, word, matrix)
  end
end

def find_paths(word, matrix)
  result = []
  matrix.each_with_index do |c, i, j|
    result += expand_path([[i, j]], word, matrix) if c.eql?(word[0])
  end
  result
end

def solve(matrix, corpus, min_word_length: 3)
  boggleable_corpus = filter_corpus(matrix, corpus, min_word_length)
  boggleable_corpus.inject({}) do |result, w|
    paths = find_paths(w, matrix)
    result[w] = paths unless paths.empty?
    result
  end
end

# Script

options = { corpus_path: DEFAULT_CORPUS_PATH }
option_parser = OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.banner = 'Usage: boggle-solver --board <value> [--corpus <value>]'

  opts.on('--board BOARD', String, 'The board (e.g. "fxi aml ewb ast")') do |b|
    options[:board] = b
  end

  opts.on('--corpus CORPUS_PATH', String, 'Corpus file path') do |c|
    options[:corpus_path] = c
  end

  opts.on_tail('-h', '--help', 'Shows usage') do
    STDOUT.puts opts
    exit
  end
end
option_parser.parse!

unless options[:board]
  STDERR.puts option_parser
  exit false
end

unless File.file? options[:corpus_path]
  STDERR.puts "No corpus exists - #{options[:corpus_path]}"
  exit false
end

rows = options[:board].downcase.scan(/\S+/).map{ |row| row.scan(/./) }

raw_corpus = File.readlines(options[:corpus_path])
corpus = raw_corpus.map{ |w| w.downcase.rstrip }.uniq.sort

solution = solve(Matrix.rows(rows), corpus)
solution.each_pair do |w, paths|
  STDOUT.puts w
  paths.each do |path|
    STDOUT.puts "\t" + path.map{ |point| point.inspect }.join(', ')
  end
end
STDOUT.puts "TOTAL: #{solution.count}"

我建议根据单词做一个字母树。这棵树将由字母结构组成，像这样:

letter: char
isWord: boolean

然后构建树，每个深度添加一个新字母。换句话说，第一层是字母表;然后从这些树中，会有另外26个条目，以此类推，直到你把所有的单词都拼出来。坚持这个解析树，它将使所有可能的答案更快地查找。

使用这个解析过的树，您可以非常快速地找到解决方案。下面是伪代码:

BEGIN: 
    For each letter:
        if the struct representing it on the current depth has isWord == true, enter it as an answer.
        Cycle through all its neighbors; if there is a child of the current node corresponding to the letter, recursively call BEGIN on it.

这可以通过一些动态编程来加快。例如，在你的样本中，两个“A”都在一个“E”和一个“W”旁边，这(从它们击中它们的点来看)是相同的。我没有足够的时间来详细说明这个代码，但我想你们可以理解。

此外，我相信你会找到其他解决方案，如果你谷歌“Boggle solver”。

你的搜索算法是否会随着搜索的继续而不断减少单词列表?

例如，在上面的搜索中，你的单词只能以13个字母开头(有效地减少了一半的开头字母)。

当你添加更多的字母排列时，它会进一步减少可用的单词集，减少必要的搜索。

我会从这里开始。

下面是使用NLTK工具包中的预定义单词的解决方案 NLTK有NLTK。语料库包，我们有一个叫做单词的包，它包含超过20万个英语单词，你可以简单地把它们都用到你的程序中。

一旦创建你的矩阵转换成一个字符数组，并执行这段代码

import nltk
from nltk.corpus import words
from collections import Counter

def possibleWords(input, charSet):
    for word in input:
        dict = Counter(word)
        flag = 1
        for key in dict.keys():
            if key not in charSet:
                flag = 0
        if flag == 1 and len(word)>5: #its depends if you want only length more than 5 use this otherwise remove that one. 
            print(word)


nltk.download('words')
word_list = words.words()
# prints 236736
print(len(word_list))
charSet = ['h', 'e', 'l', 'o', 'n', 'v', 't']
possibleWords(word_list, charSet)

输出:

eleven
eleventh
elevon
entente
entone
ethene
ethenol
evolve
evolvent
hellhole
helvell
hooven
letten
looten
nettle
nonene
nonent
nonlevel
notelet
novelet
novelette
novene
teenet
teethe
teevee
telethon
tellee
tenent
tentlet
theelol
toetoe
tonlet
toothlet
tootle
tottle
vellon
velvet
velveteen
venene
vennel
venthole
voeten
volent
volvelle
volvent
voteen

我希望你能得到它。

我认为你可能会花大部分时间去匹配那些不可能由你的字母网格构成的单词。所以，我要做的第一件事就是加快这一步，这应该能让你大致达到目的。

为此，我将把网格重新表示为一个可能的“移动”表，您可以根据您正在查看的字母转换对其进行索引。

首先从你的字母表中给每个字母分配一个数字(a =0, B=1, C=2，…等等)。

让我们举个例子:

h b c d
e e g h
l l k l
m o f p

现在，让我们使用现有字母的字母表(通常你可能每次都想使用相同的字母表):

 b | c | d | e | f | g | h | k | l | m |  o |  p
---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+----
 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

然后你创建一个2D布尔数组，告诉你是否有某个字母转换可用:

     |  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11  <- from letter
     |  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  k  l  m  o  p
-----+--------------------------------------
 0 b |     T     T     T  T     
 1 c |  T     T  T     T  T
 2 d |     T           T  T
 3 e |  T  T     T     T  T  T  T
 4 f |                       T  T     T  T
 5 g |  T  T  T  T        T  T  T
 6 h |  T  T  T  T     T     T  T
 7 k |           T  T  T  T     T     T  T
 8 l |           T  T  T  T  T  T  T  T  T
 9 m |                          T     T
10 o |              T        T  T  T
11 p |              T        T  T
 ^
 to letter

现在浏览单词列表，将单词转换为过渡段:

hello (6, 3, 8, 8, 10):
6 -> 3, 3 -> 8, 8 -> 8, 8 -> 10

然后检查这些转换是否允许通过在你的表中查找它们:

[6][ 3] : T
[3][ 8] : T
[8][ 8] : T
[8][10] : T

如果它们都被允许，就有可能找到这个词。

例如，单词“头盔”可以在第4个转换(m到e:头盔)时被排除，因为表中的这个条目是假的。

单词hamster可以被排除，因为第一个(h到a)的转换是不允许的(在你的表中甚至不存在)。

现在，对于可能剩下的很少几个你没有删除的单词，试着按照你现在做的方法或在这里的其他答案中建议的方法在网格中找到它们。这是为了避免网格中相同字母之间的跳转导致的误报。例如，表格允许使用单词“help”，但网格不允许。

关于这个想法的一些进一步的性能改进技巧:

Instead of using a 2D array, use a 1D array and simply compute the index of the second letter yourself. So, instead of a 12x12 array like above, make a 1D array of length 144. If you then always use the same alphabet (i.e. a 26x26 = 676x1 array for the standard english alphabet), even if not all letters show up in your grid, you can pre-compute the indices into this 1D array that you need to test to match your dictionary words. For example, the indices for 'hello' in the example above would be hello (6, 3, 8, 8, 10): 42 (from 6 + 3x12), 99, 104, 128 -> "hello" will be stored as 42, 99, 104, 128 in the dictionary Extend the idea to a 3D table (expressed as a 1D array), i.e. all allowed 3-letter combinations. That way you can eliminate even more words immediately and you reduce the number of array lookups for each word by 1: For 'hello', you only need 3 array lookups: hel, ell, llo. It will be very quick to build this table, by the way, as there are only 400 possible 3-letter-moves in your grid. Pre-compute the indices of the moves in your grid that you need to include in your table. For the example above, you need to set the following entries to 'True': (0,0) (0,1) -> here: h, b : [6][0] (0,0) (1,0) -> here: h, e : [6][3] (0,0) (1,1) -> here: h, e : [6][3] (0,1) (0,0) -> here: b, h : [0][6] (0,1) (0,2) -> here: b, c : [0][1] . : Also represent your game grid in a 1-D array with 16 entries and have the table pre-computed in 3. contain the indices into this array.

我相信如果您使用这种方法，您可以让您的代码运行得非常快，如果您预先计算了字典并已经加载到内存中。

顺便说一句:如果你正在创造一款游戏，你可以在后台立即运行这些内容。在用户仍然盯着你的应用标题屏幕，并将手指放在按“Play”的位置时开始生成和解决第一款游戏。然后在用户玩前一款游戏时生成并解决下一款游戏。这应该会给您很多时间来运行代码。

(我喜欢这个问题，所以我可能会忍不住在未来几天的某个时候用Java实现我的提议，看看它实际上是如何执行的……一旦我这样做，我将在这里张贴代码。)

更新:

好的，我今天有一些时间在Java中实现了这个想法:

class DictionaryEntry {
  public int[] letters;
  public int[] triplets;
}

class BoggleSolver {

  // Constants
  final int ALPHABET_SIZE = 5;  // up to 2^5 = 32 letters
  final int BOARD_SIZE    = 4;  // 4x4 board
  final int[] moves = {-BOARD_SIZE-1, -BOARD_SIZE, -BOARD_SIZE+1, 
                                  -1,                         +1,
                       +BOARD_SIZE-1, +BOARD_SIZE, +BOARD_SIZE+1};


  // Technically constant (calculated here for flexibility, but should be fixed)
  DictionaryEntry[] dictionary; // Processed word list
  int maxWordLength = 0;
  int[] boardTripletIndices; // List of all 3-letter moves in board coordinates

  DictionaryEntry[] buildDictionary(String fileName) throws IOException {
    BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
    String word = fileReader.readLine();
    ArrayList<DictionaryEntry> result = new ArrayList<DictionaryEntry>();
    while (word!=null) {
      if (word.length()>=3) {
        word = word.toUpperCase();
        if (word.length()>maxWordLength) maxWordLength = word.length();
        DictionaryEntry entry = new DictionaryEntry();
        entry.letters  = new int[word.length()  ];
        entry.triplets = new int[word.length()-2];
        int i=0;
        for (char letter: word.toCharArray()) {
          entry.letters[i] = (byte) letter - 65; // Convert ASCII to 0..25
          if (i>=2)
            entry.triplets[i-2] = (((entry.letters[i-2]  << ALPHABET_SIZE) +
                                     entry.letters[i-1]) << ALPHABET_SIZE) +
                                     entry.letters[i];
          i++;
        }
        result.add(entry);
      }
      word = fileReader.readLine();
    }
    return result.toArray(new DictionaryEntry[result.size()]);
  }

  boolean isWrap(int a, int b) { // Checks if move a->b wraps board edge (like 3->4)
    return Math.abs(a%BOARD_SIZE-b%BOARD_SIZE)>1;
  }

  int[] buildTripletIndices() {
    ArrayList<Integer> result = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    for (int a=0; a<BOARD_SIZE*BOARD_SIZE; a++)
      for (int bm: moves) {
        int b=a+bm;
        if ((b>=0) && (b<board.length) && !isWrap(a, b))
          for (int cm: moves) {
            int c=b+cm;
            if ((c>=0) && (c<board.length) && (c!=a) && !isWrap(b, c)) {
              result.add(a);
              result.add(b);
              result.add(c);
            }
          }
      }
    int[] result2 = new int[result.size()];
    int i=0;
    for (Integer r: result) result2[i++] = r;
    return result2;
  }


  // Variables that depend on the actual game layout
  int[] board = new int[BOARD_SIZE*BOARD_SIZE]; // Letters in board
  boolean[] possibleTriplets = new boolean[1 << (ALPHABET_SIZE*3)];

  DictionaryEntry[] candidateWords;
  int candidateCount;

  int[] usedBoardPositions;

  DictionaryEntry[] foundWords;
  int foundCount;

  void initializeBoard(String[] letters) {
    for (int row=0; row<BOARD_SIZE; row++)
      for (int col=0; col<BOARD_SIZE; col++)
        board[row*BOARD_SIZE + col] = (byte) letters[row].charAt(col) - 65;
  }

  void setPossibleTriplets() {
    Arrays.fill(possibleTriplets, false); // Reset list
    int i=0;
    while (i<boardTripletIndices.length) {
      int triplet = (((board[boardTripletIndices[i++]]  << ALPHABET_SIZE) +
                       board[boardTripletIndices[i++]]) << ALPHABET_SIZE) +
                       board[boardTripletIndices[i++]];
      possibleTriplets[triplet] = true; 
    }
  }

  void checkWordTriplets() {
    candidateCount = 0;
    for (DictionaryEntry entry: dictionary) {
      boolean ok = true;
      int len = entry.triplets.length;
      for (int t=0; (t<len) && ok; t++)
        ok = possibleTriplets[entry.triplets[t]];
      if (ok) candidateWords[candidateCount++] = entry;
    }
  }

  void checkWords() { // Can probably be optimized a lot
    foundCount = 0;
    for (int i=0; i<candidateCount; i++) {
      DictionaryEntry candidate = candidateWords[i];
      for (int j=0; j<board.length; j++)
        if (board[j]==candidate.letters[0]) { 
          usedBoardPositions[0] = j;
          if (checkNextLetters(candidate, 1, j)) {
            foundWords[foundCount++] = candidate;
            break;
          }
        }
    }
  }

  boolean checkNextLetters(DictionaryEntry candidate, int letter, int pos) {
    if (letter==candidate.letters.length) return true;
    int match = candidate.letters[letter];
    for (int move: moves) {
      int next=pos+move;
      if ((next>=0) && (next<board.length) && (board[next]==match) && !isWrap(pos, next)) {
        boolean ok = true;
        for (int i=0; (i<letter) && ok; i++)
          ok = usedBoardPositions[i]!=next;
        if (ok) {
          usedBoardPositions[letter] = next;
          if (checkNextLetters(candidate, letter+1, next)) return true;
        }
      }
    }   
    return false;
  }


  // Just some helper functions
  String formatTime(long start, long end, long repetitions) {
    long time = (end-start)/repetitions;
    return time/1000000 + "." + (time/100000) % 10 + "" + (time/10000) % 10 + "ms";
  }

  String getWord(DictionaryEntry entry) {
    char[] result = new char[entry.letters.length];
    int i=0;
    for (int letter: entry.letters)
      result[i++] = (char) (letter+97);
    return new String(result);
  }

  void run() throws IOException {
    long start = System.nanoTime();

    // The following can be pre-computed and should be replaced by constants
    dictionary = buildDictionary("C:/TWL06.txt");
    boardTripletIndices = buildTripletIndices();
    long precomputed = System.nanoTime();


    // The following only needs to run once at the beginning of the program
    candidateWords     = new DictionaryEntry[dictionary.length]; // WAAAY too generous
    foundWords         = new DictionaryEntry[dictionary.length]; // WAAAY too generous
    usedBoardPositions = new int[maxWordLength];
    long initialized = System.nanoTime(); 

    for (int n=1; n<=100; n++) {
      // The following needs to run again for every new board
      initializeBoard(new String[] {"DGHI",
                                    "KLPS",
                                    "YEUT",
                                    "EORN"});
      setPossibleTriplets();
      checkWordTriplets();
      checkWords();
    }
    long solved = System.nanoTime();


    // Print out result and statistics
    System.out.println("Precomputation finished in " + formatTime(start, precomputed, 1)+":");
    System.out.println("  Words in the dictionary: "+dictionary.length);
    System.out.println("  Longest word:            "+maxWordLength+" letters");
    System.out.println("  Number of triplet-moves: "+boardTripletIndices.length/3);
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Initialization finished in " + formatTime(precomputed, initialized, 1));
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Board solved in "+formatTime(initialized, solved, 100)+":");
    System.out.println("  Number of candidates: "+candidateCount);
    System.out.println("  Number of actual words: "+foundCount);
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Words found:");
    int w=0;
    System.out.print("  ");
    for (int i=0; i<foundCount; i++) {
      System.out.print(getWord(foundWords[i]));
      w++;
      if (w==10) {
        w=0;
        System.out.println(); System.out.print("  ");
      } else
        if (i<foundCount-1) System.out.print(", ");
    }
    System.out.println();
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    new BoggleSolver().run();
  }
}

以下是一些结果:

对于原始问题(DGHI…)中发布的图片的网格:

Precomputation finished in 239.59ms:
  Words in the dictionary: 178590
  Longest word:            15 letters
  Number of triplet-moves: 408

Initialization finished in 0.22ms

Board solved in 3.70ms:
  Number of candidates: 230
  Number of actual words: 163 

Words found:
  eek, eel, eely, eld, elhi, elk, ern, erupt, erupts, euro
  eye, eyer, ghi, ghis, glee, gley, glue, gluer, gluey, glut
  gluts, hip, hiply, hips, his, hist, kelp, kelps, kep, kepi
  kepis, keps, kept, kern, key, kye, lee, lek, lept, leu
  ley, lunt, lunts, lure, lush, lust, lustre, lye, nus, nut
  nuts, ore, ort, orts, ouph, ouphs, our, oust, out, outre
  outs, oyer, pee, per, pert, phi, phis, pis, pish, plus
  plush, ply, plyer, psi, pst, pul, pule, puler, pun, punt
  punts, pur, pure, puree, purely, pus, push, put, puts, ree
  rely, rep, reply, reps, roe, roue, roup, roups, roust, rout
  routs, rue, rule, ruly, run, runt, runts, rupee, rush, rust
  rut, ruts, ship, shlep, sip, sipe, spue, spun, spur, spurn
  spurt, strep, stroy, stun, stupe, sue, suer, sulk, sulker, sulky
  sun, sup, supe, super, sure, surely, tree, trek, trey, troupe
  troy, true, truly, tule, tun, tup, tups, turn, tush, ups
  urn, uts, yeld, yelk, yelp, yelps, yep, yeps, yore, you
  your, yourn, yous

对于在原始问题中作为示例发布的信件(FXIE…)

Precomputation finished in 239.68ms:
  Words in the dictionary: 178590
  Longest word:            15 letters
  Number of triplet-moves: 408

Initialization finished in 0.21ms

Board solved in 3.69ms:
  Number of candidates: 87
  Number of actual words: 76

Words found:
  amble, ambo, ami, amie, asea, awa, awe, awes, awl, axil
  axile, axle, boil, bole, box, but, buts, east, elm, emboli
  fame, fames, fax, lei, lie, lima, limb, limbo, limbs, lime
  limes, lob, lobs, lox, mae, maes, maw, maws, max, maxi
  mesa, mew, mewl, mews, mil, mile, milo, mix, oil, ole
  sae, saw, sea, seam, semi, sew, stub, swam, swami, tub
  tubs, tux, twa, twae, twaes, twas, uts, wae, waes, wamble
  wame, wames, was, wast, wax, west

对于以下5x5网格:

R P R I T
A H H L N
I E T E P
Z R Y S G
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它给出了这个:

Precomputation finished in 240.39ms:
  Words in the dictionary: 178590
  Longest word:            15 letters
  Number of triplet-moves: 768

Initialization finished in 0.23ms

Board solved in 3.85ms:
  Number of candidates: 331
  Number of actual words: 240

Words found:
  aero, aery, ahi, air, airt, airth, airts, airy, ear, egest
  elhi, elint, erg, ergo, ester, eth, ether, eye, eyen, eyer
  eyes, eyre, eyrie, gel, gelt, gelts, gen, gent, gentil, gest
  geste, get, gets, gey, gor, gore, gory, grey, greyest, greys
  gyre, gyri, gyro, hae, haet, haets, hair, hairy, hap, harp
  heap, hear, heh, heir, help, helps, hen, hent, hep, her
  hero, hes, hest, het, hetero, heth, hets, hey, hie, hilt
  hilts, hin, hint, hire, hit, inlet, inlets, ire, leg, leges
  legs, lehr, lent, les, lest, let, lethe, lets, ley, leys
  lin, line, lines, liney, lint, lit, neg, negs, nest, nester
  net, nether, nets, nil, nit, ogre, ore, orgy, ort, orts
  pah, pair, par, peg, pegs, peh, pelt, pelter, peltry, pelts
  pen, pent, pes, pest, pester, pesty, pet, peter, pets, phi
  philter, philtre, phiz, pht, print, pst, rah, rai, rap, raphe
  raphes, reap, rear, rei, ret, rete, rets, rhaphe, rhaphes, rhea
  ria, rile, riles, riley, rin, rye, ryes, seg, sel, sen
  sent, senti, set, sew, spelt, spelter, spent, splent, spline, splint
  split, stent, step, stey, stria, striae, sty, stye, tea, tear
  teg, tegs, tel, ten, tent, thae, the, their, then, these
  thesp, they, thin, thine, thir, thirl, til, tile, tiles, tilt
  tilter, tilth, tilts, tin, tine, tines, tirl, trey, treys, trog
  try, tye, tyer, tyes, tyre, tyro, west, wester, wry, wryest
  wye, wyes, wyte, wytes, yea, yeah, year, yeh, yelp, yelps
  yen, yep, yeps, yes, yester, yet, yew, yews, zero, zori

为此，我使用了TWL06锦标赛拼字词列表，因为原始问题中的链接不再有效。这个文件是1.85MB，所以略短一些。buildDictionary函数抛出所有小于3个字母的单词。

以下是对其性能的一些观察:

It's about 10 times slower than the reported performance of Victor Nicollet's OCaml implementation. Whether this is caused by the different algorithm, the shorter dictionary he used, the fact that his code is compiled and mine runs in a Java virtual machine, or the performance of our computers (mine is an Intel Q6600 @ 2.4MHz running WinXP), I don't know. But it's much faster than the results for the other implementations quoted at the end of the original question. So, whether this algorithm is superior to the trie dictionary or not, I don't know at this point. The table method used in checkWordTriplets() yields a very good approximation to the actual answers. Only 1 in 3-5 words passed by it will fail the checkWords() test (See number of candidates vs. number of actual words above). Something you can't see above: The checkWordTriplets() function takes about 3.65ms and is therefore fully dominant in the search process. The checkWords() function takes up pretty much the remaining 0.05-0.20 ms. The execution time of the checkWordTriplets() function depends linearly on the dictionary size and is virtually independent of board size! The execution time of checkWords() depends on the board size and the number of words not ruled out by checkWordTriplets(). The checkWords() implementation above is the dumbest first version I came up with. It is basically not optimized at all. But compared to checkWordTriplets() it is irrelevant for the total performance of the application, so I didn't worry about it. But, if the board size gets bigger, this function will get slower and slower and will eventually start to matter. Then, it would need to be optimized as well. One nice thing about this code is its flexibility: You can easily change the board size: Update line 10 and the String array passed to initializeBoard(). It can support larger/different alphabets and can handle things like treating 'Qu' as one letter without any performance overhead. To do this, one would need to update line 9 and the couple of places where characters are converted to numbers (currently simply by subtracting 65 from the ASCII value)

好吧，但我觉得现在这篇文章已经足够长了。我当然可以回答你可能有的任何问题，但让我们把它转移到评论。