NPR’s Sunday Puzzle vs. ActionScript 3

Today I was listening to podcasts and came across this week’s Sunday Puzzler. Take a listen…

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A doozie!
Well, I got a little idea to solve it new-school by letting the do computer the work.

All I needed to do was find a list of countries in the world, then make a little app that could read that list and compare the country names against each other. Evil genius laugh…

Three possible answers! That is TWO more than the “puzzle master” Will Shorts found! PaChow!

I’ll be swimming in NPR lapel pins come this Sunday.
English comments along with puzzle-solver code here.

Comments (2) left to “NPR’s Sunday Puzzle vs. ActionScript 3”

  1. Joel wrote:

    NICE! Nerd power!

  2. Alex wrote:

    The robotic takeover begins with NPR