Linux @lemmy.ml christos @lemmy.world 1y ago

SPELION: A TUI Spelling Bee Puzzle

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4516333

Spelion is a word spelling puzzle.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/spelion

Using just the given 7 letters, you are called to form as many words as possible.

Rules

The word that you form must include the center letter.

You don't have to use all the other letters.

Minimum length of the word that you create is four letters.

Any given letters can be used more than one time in a word.

The word list is contained in /usr/share/dict/words, minus words with upper-case letters, words with apostrophe and words containing letters with accent marks.

Name

The name SPELION was just a made up word with letters that could form the root spel(l), while at the same time these letters could appear in a (recursive) Spelion puzzle. The name stuck when I found out that by pure chance Spelion was also an anagram of the greek letter epsilon.

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Quick pointer you may wanna add to the readme:

This depends upon /use/share/dict/words which doesn’t necessarily exist on all systems. To try this out on an arch-based district, (Manjaro,) I had to install the package “words” with yay.
- Arch problems...
  
  I’ll have you know that fixing things that don’t work for no reason is my favorite thing to do on a distro /s
  
  While I kid, I have been on Manjaro for 5 years as a daily driver. I know it’s team gets a lot of hate, but it’s been rock solid for me for all my normal usage.
- Was wondering why this didn't work, thanks!
- Thanks for this, I had no idea. I will add this to README. Which command did you use?
  
  For Arch based systems, the command is:
  
  # pacman -S words
  
  On Debian based systems, I think the command is:
  
  # apt install wordlist
  
  The wordlist package is a virtual package. I think it will prompt the user which concrete package (i.e. language) they want to install.
  
  I'm not sitting at a machine to test these commands out.
  
  Thank you for this response. I will mention /use/share/dict/words as a dependency for this script in the README. However, as I am not an Arch user, and thus not familiar with aur and respective commands, and as installing this dependency would be beyond the scope of this project, I will ommit giving precise instructions on how to install this package.
  
  I think that’s a perfectly reasonable stance. Just mention the need to install the “words” package if it it throws an error saying /use/share/dict/words can’t be found. It took me about three minutes to solve and I’m only a hobbyist!
  
  By the way, love this project! I forgot to say that in my initial reply :)
  
  UPDATE:
  
  The word list now is configurable.
  
  By editing the WORD_LIST line in $HOME/.config/spelion/spelion.config, the user can play the game using another word list.
  
  I already updated the README, mentioning the dependency.
  
  Thank you very much for the feedback and the kind words!

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