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There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering how the massive amounts of typos.

• all possible original messages (ordered from fewest to most words in message; there shall be no specified ordered for messages with the same number of words)

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING (decoded message)

ASSLEDELPERIWECERSPDLLSACFSPTIVVOXATEIQPTREOIOSJFNMORROAIOW (ink tape)
ASDLIWERSPDFSPVOXIQPREOISJFNOAI (correction tape)
SLEEPER CELLS ACTIVATE TOMORROW (decoded message)

ASOIIJHAWQRATEMSDQPOYJKWEOABS (ink tape)
ASOIJWQRASDQPOKWEAS (correction tape)
I HATE MY JOB (decoded message)

There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering out the massive amounts of typos.

• all possible original messages ordered from fewest to most words in message; there shall be no specified ordered for messages with the same number of words. If the intended message were MY GRANDMOTHER HAS A LIFELONG PASSPORT, the output should generate the following (going from 6 words to 9 words):
• MY GRANDMOTHER HAS A LIFELONG PASSPORT
MY GRAND MOTHER HAS A LIFELONG PASSPORT
MY GRANDMOTHER HAS A LIFE LONG PASSPORT
MY GRANDMOTHER HAS A LIFELONG PASS PORT
MY GRAND MOTHER HAS A LIFE LONG PASSPORT
MY GRAND MOTHER HAS A LIFELONG PASS PORT
MY GRANDMOTHER HAS A LIFE LONG PASS PORT
MY GRAND MOTHER HAS A LIFE LONG PASS PORT

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING  (decoded messages)
NUCLEAR WAR HEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING 

ASSLEDELPERIWECERSPDLLSACFSPTIVVOXATEIQPTREOIOSJFNMORROAIOW (ink tape)
ASDLIWERSPDFSPVOXIQPREOISJFNOAI (correction tape)
SLEEPER CELLS ACTIVATE TOMORROW (decoded messages)
SLEEPER CELLS ACTIVATE TO MORROW

ASOIIJHAWQRATEMSDQPOYJKWEOABS (ink tape)
ASOIJWQRASDQPOKWEAS (correction tape)
I HATE MY JOB (decoded message)

Old fashioned intelligence gathering

As we've heard in the news, some intelligence agencies have decided to go back to typewriters due to the security hazards of the Internet. You are a spy. In spite of this change in policy to make messages more secure, one of your contacts scores an intelligence treasure trove: rolls of spent typewriter tape from your enemy.

The only problem? Whomever your enemy spy agency hired was a really bad typist. In fact, they tended to hit as many wrong keys as they did write. So when you read out the first bit of tape, you see

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR

Yikes. That's some attrocious typing. Seriously, there's training tools for that. Anyways, you're in luck. You also scored the correction tape:

QSIFIJOAPQFSJA

After racking your brain for hours, you realize someone just wanted some booze:

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR  (ink tape)
-QSI-----FIJ--OAPQF---SJA-  (correction tape)
D---RINKS---AT-----FOU---R  
DRINKS AT FOUR              (message)

There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering how the massive amounts of typos.

Rules

Input

• a return-delimited dictionary file
• ink tape letters (all caps)
• correction tape letters (all caps)

Output

• all possible original messages (ordered from fewest to most words in message; there shall be no specified ordered for messages with the same number of words)

Other notes

• all words in the original message will be spelled correctly (the typist was terrible, but they worked hard to eventually craft a correct sentence).
• you may precapitalize your dictionary
• all messages are alpha only (no numbers or punctuation)

Scoring:

• Code golf, shortest code wins.

Additional sample tape your assistant decoded to use to test:

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING (decoded message)

Old fashioned intelligence gathering

As we've heard in the news, some intelligence agencies have decided to go back to typewriters due to the security hazards of the Internet. You are a spy. In spite of this change in policy to make messages more secure, one of your contacts scores an intelligence treasure trove: rolls of spent typewriter tape from your enemy.

The only problem? Whomever your enemy spy agency hired was a really bad typist. In fact, they tended to hit as many wrong keys as they did write. So when you read out the first bit of tape, you see

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR

Yikes. That's some attrocious typing. Seriously, there's training tools for that. Anyways, you're in luck. You also scored the correction tape:

QSIFIJOAPQFSJA

After racking your brain for hours, you realize someone just wanted some booze:

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR  (ink tape)
-QSI-----FIJ--OAPQF---SJA-  (correction tape)
D---RINKS---AT-----FOU---R  
DRINKS AT FOUR              (message)

There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering how the massive amounts of typos.

Rules

Input

• a return-delimited dictionary file
• ink tape letters (all caps)
• correction tape letters (all caps)

Output

• all possible original messages (ordered from fewest to most words in message; there shall be no specified ordered for messages with the same number of words)

Other notes

• all words in the original message will be spelled correctly (the typist was terrible, but they worked hard to eventually craft a correct sentence).
• you may precapitalize your dictionary
• all messages are alpha only (no numbers or punctuation)

Scoring:

• Code golf, shortest code wins.

Additional sample tapes your assistant decoded to use to test your algorithm:

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING (decoded message)

ASSLEDELPERIWECERSPDLLSACFSPTIVVOXATEIQPTREOIOSJFNMORROAIOW (ink tape)
ASDLIWERSPDFSPVOXIQPREOISJFNOAI (correction tape)
SLEEPER CELLS ACTIVATE TOMORROW (decoded message)

ASOIIJHAWQRATEMSDQPOYJKWEOABS (ink tape)
ASOIJWQRASDQPOKWEAS (correction tape)
I HATE MY JOB (decoded message)

Old fashioned intelligence gathering

As we've heard in the news, some intelligence agencies have decided to go back to typewriters due to the security hazards of the Internet. You are a spy. In spite of this change in policy to make messages more secure, one of your contacts scores an intelligence treasure trove: rolls of spent typewriter tape from your enemy.

The only problem? Whomever your enemy spy agency hired was a really bad typist. In fact, they tended to hit as many wrong keys as they did write. So when you read out the first bit of tape, you see

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR

Yikes. That's some attrocious typing. Seriously, there's training tools for that. Anyways, you're in luck. You also scored the correction tape:

QSIFIJOAPQFSJA

After racking your brain for hours, you realize someone just wanted some booze:

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR  (ink tape)
-QSI-----FIJ--OAPQF---SJA-  (correction tape)
D---RINKS---AT-----FOU---R  
DRINKS AT FOUR              (message)

There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering how the massive amounts of typos.

Rules

Input

• a return-delimited dictionary file
• ink tape letters (all caps)
• correction tape letters (all caps)

Output

• the original message

Other notes

• all words in the original message will be spelled correctly (the typist was terrible, but they worked hard to eventually craft a correct sentence).
• you may precapitalize your dictionary
• all messages are alpha only (no numbers or punctuation)

Scoring:

• Code golf, shortest code wins.
• -25 bonus if you create a message (of at least 5 words and 25 letters) that can be ambiguously parsed (same letters, but different spacing, the other interpretation need not be sensical, just formed of English words)
• -75 bonus if you can generate both messages in such a case
• -25 bonus if you can reasonably predict the correct message in such a case (defined as the message with the fewest [that is, longest average] words).

Additional sample tape your assistant decoded to use to test:

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING (decoded message)

Old fashioned intelligence gathering

As we've heard in the news, some intelligence agencies have decided to go back to typewriters due to the security hazards of the Internet. You are a spy. In spite of this change in policy to make messages more secure, one of your contacts scores an intelligence treasure trove: rolls of spent typewriter tape from your enemy.

The only problem? Whomever your enemy spy agency hired was a really bad typist. In fact, they tended to hit as many wrong keys as they did write. So when you read out the first bit of tape, you see

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR

Yikes. That's some attrocious typing. Seriously, there's training tools for that. Anyways, you're in luck. You also scored the correction tape:

QSIFIJOAPQFSJA

After racking your brain for hours, you realize someone just wanted some booze:

DQSIRINKSFIJATOAPQFFOUSJAR  (ink tape)
-QSI-----FIJ--OAPQF---SJA-  (correction tape)
D---RINKS---AT-----FOU---R  
DRINKS AT FOUR              (message)

There's a lot of tape though, and you know there's some good intelligence information here, so you write an program to determine the original messages after filtering how the massive amounts of typos.

Rules

Input

• a return-delimited dictionary file
• ink tape letters (all caps)
• correction tape letters (all caps)

Output

• all possible original messages (ordered from fewest to most words in message; there shall be no specified ordered for messages with the same number of words)

Other notes

• all words in the original message will be spelled correctly (the typist was terrible, but they worked hard to eventually craft a correct sentence).
• you may precapitalize your dictionary
• all messages are alpha only (no numbers or punctuation)

Scoring:

• Code golf, shortest code wins.

Additional sample tape your assistant decoded to use to test:

NUAFCLEAIEOJRWARWESHEADAJIOWGUNDSUIVHERCSNZXAPITASAOIDLBUIJOVEMOLDINGIAS (ink tape)
AFIEOJWESAJIOWGSUIVHSNZXSAOIDJOVEMOIAS (correction tape)
NUCLEAR WARHEAD UNDER CAPITAL BUILDING (decoded message)