use strict; use warnings; my %adj = ( 1 => [2,5,6], 2 => [1,3,5,6,7], 3 => [2,4,6,7,8], 4 => [3,7,8], 5 => [1,2,6,9,10], 6 => [1,2,3,5,7,9,10,11], 7 => [2,3,4,6,8,10,11,12], 8 => [3,4,7,11,12], 9 => [5,6,10,13,14], 10 => [5,6,7,9,11,13,14,15], 11 => [6,7,8,10,12,14,15,16], 12 => [7,8,11,15,16], 13 => [9,10,14], 14 => [9,10,11,13,15], 15 => [10,11,12,14,16], 16 => [11,12,15] ); sub boggle { my ($sofar, $last, $remains, $lentogo) = @_; return print "@$sofar\n" unless $lentogo; return () unless @$remains; my (@right, @left) = @$remains; while (my $next = shift @right) { boggle([@$sofar, $next], $next, [@left, @right], $lentogo-1) if grep {$next==$_} @{$adj{$last}}; push(@left, $next); } } for my $len (3 .. 6) { # len 3 .. 6 for my $start (1 .. 16) { # all starting points boggle([$start],$start,[1..$start-1,$start+1..16], $len); } };