From 1a796d8144e82bad806cb64336b4f58a47445946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Binner <binner.andreas@siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:10:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] added check of placed Words

---
 Startcode/main.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Startcode/main.c b/Startcode/main.c
index 03da755..fbf9ad6 100644
--- a/Startcode/main.c
+++ b/Startcode/main.c
@@ -41,6 +41,23 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             // Start the game if successful
             // error message if some words couldn't be placed
 
+            if(wordCount > 19)
+            {
+                if(placedWords != 20)
+                {
+                    exitCode = EXIT_FAILURE;
+                    printf("Only %d of %d possible words could be placed\n", placedWords, 20);
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                if(placedWords != wordCount)
+                {
+                    exitCode = EXIT_FAILURE;
+                    printf("Only %d of %d possible words could be placed\n", placedWords, wordCount);
+                }
+            }
+
         }
         else
         {

From 594dd3c2ce08c8a8fabfce91a58df1dff30b3948 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Binner <binner.andreas@siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:11:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] changed return type of readWords() to unsigned int

---
 Startcode/input.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Startcode/input.c b/Startcode/input.c
index 81b2433..65541fd 100644
--- a/Startcode/input.c
+++ b/Startcode/input.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 // Read words from file and store in 'words' array
 static int createSingleWords(char text[MAX_LINE_LEN], char words[][MAX_WORD_LEN], unsigned int maxWordCount);
 
-int readWords(FILE *file, char words[][MAX_WORD_LEN], unsigned int maxWordCount)
+unsigned int readWords(FILE *file, char words[][MAX_WORD_LEN], unsigned int maxWordCount)
 {
     int wordCount = 0;
     char lineRead[MAX_LINE_LEN];

From 9967eb3b09cf3c3eec4422feb9722d51cc77c708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Binner <binner.andreas@siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:26:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] fixed error in return type input.h

---
 Startcode/input.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Startcode/input.h b/Startcode/input.h
index 032ec28..265de42 100644
--- a/Startcode/input.h
+++ b/Startcode/input.h
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
 #define MAX_WORD_LEN 100
 #define MAX_LINE_LEN 1024
 
-int readWords(FILE *file, char words[][MAX_WORD_LEN], unsigned int maxWordCount);
+unsigned int readWords(FILE *file, char words[][MAX_WORD_LEN], unsigned int maxWordCount);
 
 #endif

From ab3d269759a6fc1f38f9258496ab6f0488bee33a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Binner <binner.andreas@siemens.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:45:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] changed numbers to variable

---
 Startcode/main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Startcode/main.c b/Startcode/main.c
index fbf9ad6..7152f65 100644
--- a/Startcode/main.c
+++ b/Startcode/main.c
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             // Start the game if successful
             // error message if some words couldn't be placed
 
-            if(wordCount > 19)
+            if(wordCount >= SALAD_SIZE)
             {
-                if(placedWords != 20)
+                if(placedWords != SALAD_SIZE)
                 {
                     exitCode = EXIT_FAILURE;
                     printf("Only %d of %d possible words could be placed\n", placedWords, 20);