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Version 6.1 · 2024-11-17
Added the ability to define the length of an anagram as being a certain number of characters longer or shorter than the supplied letterset.
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The store currently lists version 6.1, updated 2024-11-17.


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"...anyone grappling with the sort of evil cryptics with no black squares will appreciate its power." - The Sunday Times
The Advanced Crossword Solver is a combination of a powerful regular expression-style word matcher and a user-customisable database of nearly 300,000 words and phrases.
It is specifically designed to help with solving advanced thematic crosswords such as The Times’ Listener and The Sunday Telegraph’s Enigmatic Variations, but is also useful for word games such as Scrabble and Boggle, and indeed for any other word puzzles or games, for logic problems and as an aid to crossword setting.
Unlike most crossword solving programs, this is far more than a simple pattern matcher for unknown letters. It can be used as a pattern matcher, and can solve simple anagrams, but in addition, some of its more powerful features include:…
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Added the ability to define the length of an anagram as being a certain number of characters longer or shorter than the supplied letterset.
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