Question: The NYTimes has a new word game called Spelling Bee. The idea of the game is, on a board like the one below, to make words using only the letters on the board under the constraint that the central letter must be used. Words are worth their length in letters (with a minimum length of $4$), but words that use all $7$ letters — known as pangrams — are awarded $7$ bonus points. The valid word list is Peter Norvig’s which contains some 172820 distinct words. The object is to find the game board with the highest possible maximum score.
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