Talk:Jumble

message: An anagram consists of an actual word, does it not?  Jumble, on the other hand, frequently uses randomly scrambled letters that don't actually form words.  For example, "BMLEUJ" is not a word, but you might find it nonetheless (the answer, of course, is "JUMBLE").
What is it called if something is like an anagram except that the scrambled string of letters doesn't constitute another word? 173.10.123.113 (talk) 20:54, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Not an Anagram

message: The algorithm that sums letter values to find anagrams seems inaccurate and is unsourced, but I'm not read to delete it yet.  Wouldn't, for example, AAAABB and AAAAAC have the same sum (8) even though they're not anagrams?  It seems that you need an additional unmentioned step of verifying the words in W that are indeed anagrams.  Do we have a source for this algorithm? Oren0 (talk) 03:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. If "the sum" in that algorithm means the sum in the usual sense, then it wouldn't work. A simple way that will surely solve the puzzle (but may not be efficient) is to let A = 2, B = 3, C = 5, … , Z = 26th prime = 101. For each word assigns its value as the product of the values of its alphabets like CAT = 5 x 2 x 71 = 710. Then any word with value that can divide the product value of a given set of alphabets can form from a subset of alphabets of that set. A simple improvement to this algorithm is to assign the value of each alphabet according to its frequency in the dictionary: the more frequent, the less its value. This will  reduce the product values for most words. Warut (talk) 12:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sum algorithm accurate?

message: TextTwist (and variations thereof) should not redirect to this page.  Papilgee4evaeva (talk) 18:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection from TextTwist 

message: Toonopedia spells his name “Martin Naydel” and mentions that his brother, Larry Nadle, spelled it differently.  See for example McSnurtle the Turtle.  Other comic-book sources also give his name as Naydel.  I've seen Naydel's book of collected Jumbles and I think it was spelled “Naydel” on the cover. If no one demurs, I'll revise the page accordingly.  By the way, the official Jumble site's history page About Jumble fails to mention Naydel.  It claims that Jumble was created by Bob Lee and Henri Arnold! 
Has anybody a copy of one of Naydel's puzzles?  They were far better than the contemporary ones. Sicherman (talk) 03:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Who? 

message: The most recent edit looks fishy: 21:38, 30 April 2012‎ 1t2m3s4j5 (4,316 bytes) (-414)‎ (Added creator names & updated where you can find Jumble).
The inline references look like linkspam. The author's knowledge of the subject suggests a professional connection. The user has a contribution history that consists of a single edit, this one. Zyxwv99 (talk) 22:25, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suspicious edit 

message: This article (Jumble algorithm) just talks about the algorithm of the game, not really necessary for its own article. And in the In other media section, it talks about the game as a whole.  Seagull123  Φ  11:54, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Jumble algorithm]] 

message: Crayon, Minds, Tinny, Breach, No Chemistry  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonathonbarton (talk • contribs) 14:05, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solution to the example 

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