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.
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!