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The more that Hofstadter explains how the Jumbo program works the more I think that it is impossible to make. I think that with a dictionary database it is impossible to correctly model how humans solve these types of problems. There needs to be some type of middle ground between no dictionary at all and brute forcing it through string comparison. Even as humans solve jumble problems we are analyzing the jumbled word and extracting information from it so we can eliminate words in our mental dictionary. One obvious example, if you are trying to solve a jumble problem of 8 letters, you are not going to be thinking about a short word because that is impossible. I think in order to make the Jumbo program successful, there needs to be a process that analyzes the jumbled word and uses information from it to create a dictionary subset of the possible words. Creating a program that solves jumble problems without a dictionary just seems like a daunting and impossible task.