[C] Scrabble Help 0.1

[gibbocool]

Well for a college assignment I had to make a Scrabble Helper for PC. It was quite a challenge and I enjoyed doing it. So now I have decided that it would be much more useful on a portable computer, so I decided to put my PSP coding skills to the test and port it to PSP.

I started about 6 hours ago and it's working pretty well if I do say so myself

So what is Scrabble Help you ask? Basically it's something that will help you in a good old game of Scrabble. You know scrabble right?   Say you have a set of letters "JTRA". The program will search a dictionary for all possible words you can make out of those letters! So in the above example it would return:
ART, JAR, RAJ, RAT, TAR. 

Neat right? Wait! There's more! The program also supports wild cards. A wild card in Scrabble Help is "_" (underscore). That means it will substitute any letter in the alphabet to try and make a word. Words that are found with the underscore have that letter displayed in lower case. For example if you have "JTR_", the program will return:
aRT, cRT, JaR, JeT, JoT, JuT, RaJ, RaT, ReT, RoT, RuT, TaR, ToR, TRw, TRy.

Right now there is a limitation that only the first 175 or so words that are found will be displayed because the screen isn't big enough to display any more I'll be working on that some time though.

To Do:

• Improve interface and allow more words to be printed
• Allow user to change minimum amount of letters in a word
• Give the scrabble score of each word

Installation:

• Copy the folder "scrabble-help" into your GAME directory if you are using a custom firmware.
• If you are using FW 1.50, download the kxploited version.

Download Scrabble Help 0.1 (src not included)
Download Scrabble Help 0.1 kxploited (src not included)

[Omar-C++]

Just curious, did you make a dictionary file and took the time to type up all the words or was there a simpler way of doing this?

[Ryalla]

Just curious, did you make a dictionary file and took the time to type up all the words or was there a simpler way of doing this?

There are dictionary files on the web for specific use with programs. Quite handy for projects such as this.

[gibbocool]

I got the dictionary file from my uni, but yea you can download any dictionary and it *should* work.

[jamiefuller]

Great Stuff Gibbocool,

If you fancy a 'harder' challange try the same but for 'Boggle', I just wrote the game for the PSP and although it works perfectly I wanted to do what you did with this to produce not only a list of all the words the player got, but then a list of all the possible words, (to show how many they missed).

But My mind got all confused and twisty by the logic

the words all vary from 3 to 8 letters, but must come from a grid of 16 letters, each letter must be adjacent to the preceeding letter. Its a doozy

my game is here if you're interested

http://30dbs.blogspot.com/2007/05/game-ready.html

[gibbocool]

I wanted to do what you did with this to produce not only a list of all the words the player got, but then a list of all the possible words, (to show how many they missed).

I don't understand, you want to enter in the words that you choose?