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The solutions of BrowserUk, Kenosis and CountZero seem to be going after anagrams, but my understanding from the reference  allusion to Scrabble in the OP is that words with fewer letters than the 'random' set are acceptable, e.g., 'no' and 'won' as well as 'wonk' from the random set 'know'. Am I off-base on this?

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Re^2: Regex to compare (if) two strings (Uniquely - I will explain inside)
by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Nov 24, 2012 at 20:18 UTC
    I agree that OP is leaning more towards Scrabble with the caveat that Scrabble requires the use of at least one (non-random) letter already on the board.
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      Hey, I just noticed this! It gives the whole assignment (if you can decode it). Now I'm a little bit sorry I contributed.

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        Hmmmmrphh. I wonder: different student, same class or someone changing names?
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Re^2: Regex to compare (if) two strings (Uniquely - I will explain inside)
by CountZero (Bishop) on Nov 25, 2012 at 12:23 UTC
    Check my solution once more: it will return "OK" for a "Scrabble" word.

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