Question

interesting math/programming question

how would you place words of length less than n, in an n by n wordseach* game, words can be placed horizonal,veritcal and slanted : like http://prntscr.com/6e2xb9

Help with some ideas on how to make robust randomly generated word puzzle for kids.

Example: if you refresh the page the words are randomized again
https://jquery-wordsearch-game.googlecode.com/svn/branches/touch/demo.html

Answer 1

Here is my attempt so far

The problem comes down to how to place lines(piecewise lines), that cannot intersect, or intersect with some conditions(ie same letter) in an n by n grid, and