this'll sound a little silly, but if you think about it, it's a tough one..

you know that puzzle in which you have columns and rows of letters, and you have a list of words and you're supposed to find those words within the letters and cross them off? and some words go through other words and so forth.. you know what i'm talkin' about.. (of course i'm not talkin' about cross-word puzzle. no. Word Search, that is)..

i was thinking, if we were to have a two-dimensional array (simple enough), how could we come up with an algorithm in which we give the program a bunch (a lot, actually) of words, and it will make up a Word Search puzzle in that two-dimensional array, with the ability to cross words in each other?

to put simply, how can we compu-generate a Word Puzzle?
is it possible?

again, i'm always curious.. this is no project or anything.. just curiosity..