~/boss / spell-groups
Hash map (group anagrams)
The Spell Sorter
Same letters, same group. Sort the spell pile without comparing a single pair.
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How to beat it
Give each word a key: its letters, sorted A to Z. LISTEN and SILENT both become EILNST. Look the key up in a hash map: there's a group for it already? Drop the word in. No group yet? Start one.
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