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  1. So here is a big clue, as it reduces the search space considerably: the longest word is "fundamental". #qwantzle Time to get back to it! 9:35 PM Apr 16th, 2010 via web
  2. Wolfram|Alpha solutions to Project Euler problems at http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~alapl051/wolfram/wolfram.html 2:23 PM Apr 16th, 2010 via web
  3. Large lists of different parts of speech at http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~alapl051/words/ 2:22 PM Apr 16th, 2010 via web
  4. Getting into the brute-force game. Has anyone gotten ANY results without an input string? #qwantzle 1:44 PM Mar 9th, 2010 via web
  5. This is some sweet stuff yet again @cincodenada #qwantzle 9:25 PM Mar 8th, 2010 via web
  6. The fact that there are no new hints today leads me to think Ryan thinks this is solvable. Time to get into some hard core NLP! #qwantzle 7:54 AM Mar 8th, 2010 via web
  7. @matthewnokleby That is some cooool stuff!! 6:48 PM Mar 7th, 2010 via web in reply to matthewnokleby
  8. I have a secret for you: I deny that I told you whom felt blue folk, but this is an outstanding solution to the riddle anyway!! #qwantzle 5:38 PM Mar 6th, 2010 via web
  9. @12t10o8e7a6l6n @cincodenada Beat you to it! Added a few more lists of words on my page. #qwantzle 6:25 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web in reply to PaulStansifer
  10. I stink at regex. If someone makes a list of all words ever said by T-Rex I will put it in my solver. <line>T-Rex: (words)</line> #qwantzle 2:13 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web
  11. @cincodenada Cool thanks! fixed it 12:50 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web in reply to cincodenada
  12. On qwantz.com it says hint: there's only one sentence in the solution, so the two exclamation marks appear right after each other. #qwantzle 12:41 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web
  13. @cincodenada And by "now I can work with it." I mean "now I can break it again." 12:37 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web in reply to cincodenada
  14. @cincodenada Only because number 1: I'm skipping class to do this, number 2: You rewrote all my terrible code and now I can work with it. 12:27 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web in reply to cincodenada
  15. @MGDougherty waaay aheaad of you. #qwantzle 12:25 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web in reply to MGDougherty
  16. I've updated http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~alapl051/qwantz/Anagramer.html to contain a checklist of requirements. Check it out! #qwantzle 12:11 PM Mar 5th, 2010 via web
  17. @ryanqnorth Dont listen to those who are giving up! There are still tons of ways to combine the hints into new ways of solving the #qwantzle 10:07 AM Mar 5th, 2010 via web
  18. @janetdawson they're coming from my slightly trimmed version of the qwantz corpus 3:22 PM Mar 4th, 2010 via web in reply to janetdawson
  19. All of my work so far: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~alapl051/qwantz/ Includes my awesome variation of Joel Bradshaw's solver #qwantzle 12:37 PM Mar 4th, 2010 via web
  20. @indemnitypop List of all valid 11 letter words: http://gist.github.com/322050 #qwantzle 11:49 AM Mar 4th, 2010 via web