/wordbomb

A web-based, multiplayer word game

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WordBomb

A web-based, multiplayer word game

You have ten seconds to type a word that contains a random bi-gram ( two consecutive letters).

Scoring is based on how rare the bigram appears in English words.

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Written with Python 3.8, but should work with 3.7

Running locally

Once you have the right version of Python and a Redis server running, install the required libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create two environment variables, or create a .env file with:

REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0
SESSION_SECRET=myseekret!

Populate the Redis DB with the words and bigrams:

python db_setup.py

Run the application:

python app.py

Then navigate to http://localhost:5000/