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.
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:
On Debian based systems, I think the command is:
The
wordlistpackage 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/wordsas a dependency for this script in the README. However, as I am not an Arch user, and thus not familiar withaurand 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_LISTline 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!