JUMBLE

'Jumble', is a word puzzle in which a player is given a set of letters which, when arranged in the correct order, give the un-jumbled word. A simple example would be the set of letters "lbujme," which can then be rearranged to spell "jumble". A little similar to the Round Robin game from Supermarket Sweep.
Jumble was created in 1954 by Martin Nadle (aka. Naydell or Dell & Nadel), and is one of most important properties of Tribune Media Services, which holds the rights to the JUMBLE trademark. Daily and Sunday Jumble puzzles are featured in hundreds of newspapers.^[1]
Jumble puzzles found in newspapers often have four-base Jumbles. Once these base Jumbles are solved, a player uses the circled letters of each base Jumble word to obtain a new set of letters. This set of letters will then complete a phrase or sentence. The correct answer usually involves some sort of visual or verbal pun, relating to an illustration and its caption published with the puzzle.

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Computerized solution

In Other Media

References

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Computerized solution

Algorithms to solve jumbles exist, which make use of a dictionary. Commonly found algorithms work as follows; given an input of
jumbled letters it outputs the set of possible words. Then the person, can pickup the right word from the list (if it exists).
# Begin
# Input: J , all the jumbled letters that form a unknown W word(s), we want.
# Assign the weights for each letter A-Z = 1 - 26, (i.e: A=1, B=2, ... Z=26).
# Compute the sum of the jumbled letters, S.
# Now using a sorted dictionary of letters stored in a hash-table mapping sums to words [S => W],we can pickup the list of words W that have the same sum as S.
# Print the words in W
# End
This algorithm is a particular instance of the speedup using binary search, and using ordering of alphabets.
It is a 'generally-known' algorithm, gleaned off the web.

In Other Media

Various electronic versions of Jumble have been released, including a version by Hasbro Interactive for Microsoft Windows. The game features 5 modes of play ranging from classic Jumble to crossword puzzles to an easier Jumble mode for kids.
TextTwist, a flash game by GameHouse, is similar to Jumble. Players form words from a set of six scrambled letters, and must find at least one 6-letter word using all the letters to get to the next round. Additional points are granted for words using at least three letters.
A TV game show based on Jumble aired in 1994. It was hosted by game show veteran Wink Martindale, and aired on The Family Channel (now called ABC Family).

References

1. http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/byline.jsp?custid=67&bylineid=26

See Also

Jumble (game show)

External links

★ Jumble Online

★ Jumble Puzzles

★ Online Scrambled Word Solver

★ Super Jumble, an online variation of the original Jumble

★ Scrambled Word Helper

★ Flash version of Jumble

★ Jumble at KidsBuilder.com

★ JumblePop.com - Pop Culture Jumbles