A New Look at the Jotto Problem

Authors

A. Ross Eckler

Abstract

The so-called Jotto problem--construct five five-letter words out of 25 different letters--was examined in the first issue of Word Ways on February 1968. Why is it called this? If one's guess word in the two-person game of Jotto is scored 0 (no letters in common with the target word), one's next guess should be a word containing no letters in common with the first one.

Recommended Citation

Eckler, A. Ross (1996) "A New Look at the Jotto Problem," Word Ways: Vol. 29 : Iss. 4 , Article 5.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol29/iss4/5