Problem 154. Reverse Boggle

Created by @bmtran (Bryant Tran)
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Description
In the classic Parker Brothers game Boggle, players find words from a 4x4 game board of letters. This exercise is to make sure that a particular solution to a boggle board is actually available on the board.
The program does not need to check to make sure if the input word is a valid english word. Furthermore, all inputs will be in all uppercase, so the user does not need to check/convert for case differences. The game board will always be 4x4.
Note: This does not perfectly align with the rules of Boggle. Specifically, all solutions in the original game must be 3 or more letters, which this problem is not asking to account for, and the atomic "Qu" is present (which I have avoided in the test suite).
Happy MATLABing!
Example
    x = ['TIPE'
         'YECV'
         'LSRA'
         'WOTU'];
    y = 'RACIEST';
    TF = true;

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 30 Jan 2012

I noticed some issues with my test suite so I updated it.

bainhome on 2 Jul 2018

really a fun problem! never played, even heard about this game,but after this one coded, maybe sometimes I buy one for trying.

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