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Mega Large Puzzle Issues
A user has reported some issues when using this with massive puzzles.
Here's the said puzzle. https://solver.0xcaff.me/view/aDz9aROdpp1wDwNLDBFO
Chrome only renders a few of the matches. Probably because there are so many.
When functioning as intended, does your tool allow a person to click on a word in the word list and have the orange highlight stay put? I ask, because the puzzle is so large it requires scrolling, and thus I lose the rollover.
I have attached the puzzle and the list of phrases (one per line), all without spaces. At a minimum, I just need to know that all the terms are found in the puzzle. Next I would hope to be able to validate how many times each term is found (because I've intentionally put some terms in the puzzle multiple times (i.e., 2 turtle doves, etc.), and in my printed puzzle word list I indicate that (i.e., "turtle doves (2)"). My ideal would be to have a functional page that I could use as a key, and that I could also edit/update, in case I decide to add additional terms or otherwise expand the puzzle even more...with the puzzle being so dense, its easiest to find spots to tuck in new words by looking at a key.
Does your tool identify those terms from the list that are not found in the puzzle? I'm interested in this as well. This puzzle was originally about half the size, but my kids nearly completed it, so I used their paper answer copy as a key for adding and expanding. I knew inadvertently I would foul up some words in doing so, and that is why I need to make sure all the terms are now valid. If any aren't found, I need to locate them (by searching for parts of terms) and fix them, or move them.
I actually was using https://wordsearch.lukasjoswiak.com to do all this, and he graciously helped me by importing my initial expansion data (because his tool otherwise requires each line of letters and each word to be entered manually otherwise), but at the size of my puzzle, his tool loses stability and is no longer able to display results, or save changes, etc. We worked around this a bit so I could make some initial corrections and additions, but now he's not available to help me validate the attached "final" data set.
I tried Word Search Solver - Word Finder - Online Software Tool but it is limited to 100 and its resulting display is unusable (confined to a left column on the page).
I find a host of github entries for wordsearch solver code, but I don't know enough about JS to recreate these on my system. This one looks particularly promising (https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~jah473/projects/wordsearch.html) and he provides all his code, etc, but I don't know if it would handle my puzzle, and again I don't know how to create his GUI on my local system.
In short, I'm grateful in advance for whatever help you can provide. I want to get the kids started on this puzzle because there will be no Christmas presents unless they finish it before Dec 25. haha