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.

  • christosOP
    2•1 year ago

    A couple of interesting features:

    • The selection of letters is random, so, the number of words - solutions is also random. However the user can configure the range of the number of words - solutions, editing the ~/.config/spelion/spelion.config file. That means that the puzzle can have e.g. between 10 and 30 solutions, or between 50 and 100 etc.
    • The user can avoid the frustration of not ever knowing the right answers when no other solutions come to mind: with the W option the user can browse the list of all possible solutions to the puzzle.

    Thank you for your feedback, any other suggestion/correction/input is most welcome.