SPELLING BEE GAME

This is a clone of the game on the New York Times Game page. Available on GitHub pages here.

About

I was inspired by the New York Times game, found here. The game is written in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I used the 2019 Collins Scrabble Word Dictionary to check for word validity. I thought this would be more restrictive than a normal dictionary, but the opposite was true. Some of the words in it are truly ridiculous.

How to Play

Find as many words as you can using the letters in the hexes. Words must obey the following rules:

  • The center letter must be used at least once.
  • The other letters can be used any number of times.
  • Words must be at least 4 letters long.

Features

  • Each game uses random letters, but the combination of letters must have at least 20 possible words
  • Keyboard functionality
  • Game saving via cookies
  • Mobile compatible