I grabbed the 5 letter scrabble words from Jordan's repo (slightly massaged to plain text).
Popular words are here: https://github.com/dolph/dictionary and saved in this repo as popular.txt. This repo has other helpful jumping off points to word frequency count from different sources.
I grabbed the overall word list from the system, then filtered that down to a list of 5-letter words. See generate_5_letter_words.sh for the details.
Terminal CSS is the base for the HTML/CSS.
None! I wanted to try it using plain old JS. So far, so good.
Capture 'include' as aligned to the 5 slots vs. as a general bucket.Basic Word Scoring - score all possible match words as to how similar they are to other remaining match words.Advanced word scoring, including scoring words that are not similar in order to cover more 'new' letters and learn to more quickly narrow the universe.- Switch processing to async/promises
Update letter frequency to also count general frequency plus specific position frequencies.Improve recommendations to bump/highlight guess words that are also possible matchesPlay as Bot - play the game as an algorithm in repeated simulations.- Strip out non-letter characters from form inputs.
Better keyboard navigation - auto advance across greens, allow arrow key nav