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The valid word detection did not account for the fact that a valid word could exist twice in the list: once at a non-multiple-of-five index because it is the end of one word and the start of another, and again at a multiple-of-five index for the word itself. An example is aglow agony contains wagon. This prevented wagon from being considered a valid word (even though it could be selected as the target word). This fix loops through all detections of the word in the dictionary to see if any are at a multiple-of-five index. |
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README.md
Bordle
The Bangle version of a popular word guessing game. The goal is to guess a 5 letter word in 6 tries or less. After each guess, the letters in the guess are marked in colors: yellow for a letter that appears in the to-be-guessed word, but in a different location and green for a letter in the correct position.
Only words contained in the internal dictionary are allowed as valid guesses. At app launch, a target word is picked from the dictionary at random.
On startup, a grid of 6 lines with 5 (empty) letter boxes is displayed. Swiping left or right at any time switches between grid view and keyboard view. The keyboad was inspired by the 'Scribble' app (it is a simplified version using the layout library). The letter group "Z ..." contains the delete key and the enter key. Hitting enter after the 5th letter will add the guess to the grid view and color mark it.
The (English language) dictionary was derived from the the Unix ispell word list by filtering out plurals and past particples (and some hand editing) from all 5 letter words. It is contained in the file 'wordlencr.txt' which contains one long string (no newline characters) of all the words concatenated. It would not be too difficult to swap it out for a different language version. The keyboard currently only supports the 26 characters of the latin alphabet (no accents or umlauts).