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35 lines
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# Spelling bee game
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Word finding game inspired by the NYT spelling bee. Find as many words with 4 or more letters (must include the
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letter at the center of the 'hive').
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Usage:
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- tap on letters to type out word
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- swipe left to delete last letter
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- swipe right to enter; the word will turn blue while is being checked against the internal dictionary; once
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checked, it will turn red if the word is invalid, does not contain the central letter or has been guessed before or
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green if it is a valid word; in the latter case, points will be awarded
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- swipe down to shuffle the 6 outer letters
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- swipe up to view a list of already guessed words; tap on any of them to return to the regular game.
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Scoring:
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The number of correctly guessed words is displayed on the bottom left, the score on the bottom right. A single point
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is awarded for a 4 letter word, or the number of letters if longer. A pangram is a word that contains all 7 letters at
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least once and yields an additional 7 points. Each game contains at least one pangram.
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Technical remarks:
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The game uses an internal dictionary consisting of a newline separated list of English words ('bee.words'). The dictionary is fairly
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large (~700kB of flash space) and thus requires appropriate space on the watch and will make installing the app somewhat
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slow. Because of its size it cannot be compressed (heatshrink needs to hold the compressed/uncompressed data in memory).
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In order to make checking for the validity of a guessed word faster, an index file ('bee_lindex.json') is installed with
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the app that facilitates faster word lookups. This index file is specific to the dictionary file used. If one were to
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replace the dictionary file with a different version (e.g. a different language) the index file has to be regenerated. The easiest
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way to do so is to delete (via the Web IDE or the fileman app on the watch) the file 'bee_lindex.json' - it will be regenerated (and saved,
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i.e. it only happens once) on app startup automatically, a process that takes roughly 30 seconds.
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