Solving Word Jumbles

Debabrata Sengupta, Abhishek Sharma {dsgupta, abhisheksharma} @ stanford.edu Solving Word Jumbles We propose to develop an android based application that can assist the user in solving word jumbles commonly found in newspapers and magazines. An example of a typical word jumble which might be found in a book of puzzles is shown in the figure below. Goals : We envisage that the application should be able to do the following: (1) Identify the (scrambled) letters of each word from an image of this puzzle taken using a droid phone. (2) Unscramble these letters to create valid english words. (3) Identify the “circled” letters which can further be shuffled to form the “mystery answer”. (4) Provide either a complete solution to the entire puzzle or provide hints to the user in the form of revealing one letter at a time for each word.