You're a teacher at an interstellar alien-and-human school, and in preparation for Activity Day, you've been tasked to reconstruct the answer key for these word searches created by your alien colleagues.

On the one hand, for each word search, you have:

  1. no literacy in the alien script
  2. no ability to even perceive the glyphs that make up the alien script
  3. exactly two copies of the word search

On the other hand, for each word search, you know:

  1. what shape a word is in that particular alien script
  2. that your computer will map each glyph into a more-perceivable symbol (consistently using the same symbol for a given glyph)
  3. that every glyph that's not part of a word will be different between the two copies (and words can touch but will not overlap)

How many word searches can you find all the words in? Your students are counting on you to save Activity Day!


Note: It is possible to find a place on the board where every translated glyph circled by the cursor (i.e. in the word the cursor is pointing to) is in fact identical between both copies of the word search, yet when you click a word is not found. This happens when all of those glyphs in fact belong to other words in the word search, but are close to each other in a way that makes them appear to be part of a word. But it's like finding "SHBA" in an English-language word search because "FISH" and "BABY" are right next to each other: you've found an identical string of characters, but that doesn't mean it's a word.

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