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NREHGA-U

This is a gemlog for the SpellBinding puzzle, in which you construct words using the specified letters (each word must contain the anchor letter).

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Bug fixed

Thanks to skyjake's /msg I isolated and fixed a bug today. The bug showed up only in puzzles with more than 32 answers, which I tried today for the first time. I hotswapped a new shorter puzzle for today, and replaced the cgi, so we are ready for a bigger puzzle tomorrow.

2021-12-02 solution for NREHGA-U

AGUE ARGUE ARGUER AUGER AUGUR AURA GAUGE GRUE GRUNGE GUNNER GURU HARANGUE HARANGUER HUGE HUNG HUNGER HURRAH RERUN RUNE RUNG RUNNER UREA URGE

There were two (!!!) pangrams yesterday - HARANGUE and HARANGUER. That's right - there can be more than one pangram (word that uses all 7 letters). In this case they are related, but sometimes they are disctinctly different words. That's 29 points right there.

I am frustrated with my dictionary - despite endless hours of fine-tuning it, I missed a bunch of words today: ENURE, GUAR, HUGER, HUGGER, a panoply of UN- words, REHUNG, REARGUE, and likely a few more.

As for the words. AGUE is a fever that causes bouts of GRUE, or shivering. AUGER is a scary-looking drill bit, while AUGUR is a fortune teller of ancient Rome. Perhaps looking at RUNEs in an ancient tome? Not really - the Roman empire was done by the time Germanic tribes were scribing their RUNEs (3rd-13th century AD).

Another day.

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