The Ascendogram Puzzle
Solution
This is a pretty tough puzzle. Once you try to get longer answers,
you very quickly run into an unyielding wall. Here's the best I
could do, using the FORTRAN90 program
ascendogram.f90.
Some 5 letter words with letters in ascending order are:
-
abhor
-
abort
-
adept
-
adopt
-
aegis
-
aglow
-
befit
-
begin
-
begot
-
below
-
chimp
-
chino
-
chins
-
chips
-
chops
-
clops
-
deist
-
deity
-
demos
-
dirty
-
emory
-
empty
-
films
-
filmy
-
first
-
flops
-
forty
-
ghost
-
gimps
-
gimpy
-
glory
-
gorsy
-
horsy
There aren't many 6 letter words with letters in ascending order:
-
abhors
-
almost
-
begins
-
biopsy
-
chimps
-
chinos
-
chintz
-
deflux
-
deimos
-
ghosty
For 6 letter words with letters in ascending order, with repetitions
allowed, we have:
-
abbess
-
accent
-
accept
-
access
-
accost
-
adders
-
bellow
-
billow
-
bloops
-
cellos
-
chills
-
chilly
-
choosy
-
choppy
-
efflux
-
effort
-
floors
-
floppy
-
flossy
-
glossy
-
knotty
Only a few longer words are around:
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Last revised on 08 September 2005.