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Glad they are keeping the 3 letter grouping in the future plates, my dad and I would play a game where you make a word that uses the three letters in the order presented and the longer word wins.


I'm wondering how frequently this is just not possible. For example QZV would fail:

    grep "q[a-z]*z[a-z]*v" words
returns nothing.


OP didn't mention a limitation that it has to start and end with these letters.

`Qazvin` is apparently a city in Iran


For me that regex didn’t have that limitation. And my word list didn’t have Qazvin. Still there must be triplets of letters that don’t match any word.


first shortest word proposed seems like the winner to me. or sort of boggle scoring, where ascending lengths of words are scored




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