https://github.com/wizardofozzie/alphabear-solver

https://github.com/wizardofozzie/alphabear-solver

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wizardofozzie/alphabear-solver
• Owner: wizardofozzie
• Created: 2016-08-19T06:48:23.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-08-27T00:53:18.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-08T00:44:15.144Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 3.69 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# Alphabear Solver

*Modified from [here](https://github.com/tom-sherman/alphabear-solver) for use with iOS Pythonista 3*

A simple python script that is intended to be used to solve game boards on the 

mobile game 

[Alphabear](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.alphabear&hl=en) by Spry Fox.

Can also be used as a 

[Countdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)#Letters_round) 

with an arbitrary number of letters, not just 8 like in the game show.

Uses a dictionary, generated to `map.json`, from `dictionary.txt`. It's the 

"official" [SOWPODS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOWPODS) dictionary with a 

few changes from the Alphabear changelogs.

## Usage

To use this script, you'll need Pythonista 3 installed.

1. Make sure you have a ton of words in `dictionary.txt`, one word per line. A 

wordlist is included here but you can modify it if you want.

2. Run `hashdict.py` to create a hashmap `map.json`

3. Run `solver.py`

Everytime you change/update the dictionary, you'll need to rerun `hashdict.py`

## Todo

* Fix word length filtering, based on [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5521619)

* Read letters from game input.

* Calculate the actual in game points.

### References

* Dictionary (`dictionary.txt`) is taken from 

[here](https://code.google.com/p/scrabblehelper/source/browse/trunk/ScrabbleHelper/src/dictionaries/sowpods.txt?r=20) 

* [The World's Fastest Scrabble Program]

(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15451-s06/www/lectures/scrabble.pdf) - 

Andrew W. Appel & Guy J. Jacobson (1988)