word-salad

https://word-salad.archive.org/ word puzzle game very similar to NY Times Spelling Bee 🐝 https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee but all hand-made...

todo

[new puzzle] button
pick levels / names / indicator (pie chart?)
leader boards!

setup

wget -qO- 'http://app.aspell.net/create?max_size=60&spelling=US&max_variant=0&diacritic=strip&download=wordlist&encoding=utf-8&format=inline' >| words-scowl.txt


# NO lame 's variants - and NO 's', period
# remove preamble
# lowercase
# 4+ letter words only
# nope
fgrep -vi s words-scowl.txt \
  |fgrep -A1000000 -- --- \
  |fgrep -v -- --- \
  |tr A-Z a-z \
  |egrep '^....' \
  |egrep -v nigge. \
  |sort -u -o words.txt

# find every pangram word containing 7 unique letters
cat words.txt \
  |nor 'const chars = [...new Set(line.split(""))]; if (chars.length === 7) log(line);' \
  |sort -u -o pangrams.txt

helfpul links

https://nytbee.com/

sample analysis

Number of Pangrams: 1
Maximum Puzzle Score: 74
Number of Answers: 25
Points Needed for Genius: 52
Genius requires between 8 and 23 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 90% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 62% of the remaining points to reach genius.

maybe dont allow ING or ED?

rebuild 3y of games

you can run this:

./make-puzzle.js

and then commit the new puzzles.txt file

misc

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