Mix and Build
In this problem, you are given a list of words (sequence of lower case letters). From this list, find the longest chain of words w1, ..., wn such that wi is a mixed extension of wi-1. A word A is a mixed extension of another word B if A can be formed by adding one letter to B and permuting the result. For example, "ab", "bar", "crab", "cobra", and "carbon" form a chain of length 5.
The input contains at least two, but no more than 10000 lines. Each line contains a word. The length of each word is at least 1 and no more than 20. All words in the input are distinct.
Write the longest chain that can be constructed from the given words. Output each word in the chain on a separate line, starting from the first one. If there are multiple longest chains, any longest chain is acceptable.
ab arc arco bar bran carbon carbons cobra crab crayon narc
ab bar crab cobra carbon carbons
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