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His blog post announcing it: https://www.danvk.org/2025/04/23/boggle-solved.html

FT article: https://archive.ph/siaAO

His blog: https://www.danvk.org/blog.html

> Driven “by the thrill of discovery”, Vanderkam has searched for this board, essentially alone, since 2004. He would scrape together computing time on Google’s hardware for heavy Boggle computation, all along documenting his efforts on his blog.

> “As far as I can tell, I’m the only person who is actually interested in this problem,” Vanderkam said.

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