Solving Boggle-type word games in Python

Recently I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time learning the Python computer programming language. This all began because of an interest in the Google App Engine, which uses Python as the primary language. I decided that it’d been a while since I picked up a new programming language (the last being C#) and I knew I’d have some spare time over the holidays.

Anyhow, there are a number of excellent learning resources for Python, but I seem to learn best by doing. So, after tackling a number of levels in the Python challenge I decided to make my own challenge; Rack up a high score in Scramble and Scramble2, which is a “Boggle”-type game for Facebook and the iTouch/iPhone respectively.

photo credit: therichbrooks

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