Boggle game
Boggle is a word game that is played on a 4x4 board with 16 letter tiles. The goal is to find as many words as possible given a time constraint. For this exercise, we are making one modification. Now it is possible for one or more of the letter tiles to be blank (denoted by *). When a tile is blank, it can be treated as any other letter. Note that in one game it does not have to be the same character for each word. For example, if the tiles C, T, and * are adjacent. The words cot, cat, and cut can all be used.
Starting the game
CLI mode
To run a cli game, just run
cd boggle/
python3 cli.pyWeb server mode
To run a game from a webserver, just run
cd boggle/
export FLASK_APP=server.py
flask runand visit localhost:5000
Web server example
GET http://localhost:5000/new-game
"74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437"
GET http://localhost:5000/74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437
{"score": 0,
"board": [["T", "A", "P", "*"], ["E", "A", "K", "S"], ["O", "B", "R", "S"], ["S", "*", "X", "D"]],
"seconds left": 154.78843593597412}
GET http://localhost:5000/74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437/guess/tape
{"success": "found \"tape\""}
GET http://localhost:5000/74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437/guess/tape
{"error": "already found"}
GET http://localhost:5000/74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437/guess/nothere
{"error": "not in board"}
GET http://localhost:5000/74eb7db8-561e-4c74-8794-37821e49e437/guess/eak
{"error": "not a word"}