ajlopez / SimpleBoggle

Simple Boggle board and word search library for JavaScript/Node.js

SimpleBoggle

Simple Boggle board and word search library for JavaScript/Node.js.

Installation

Via npm on Node:

npm install simpleboggle

Usage

Reference in your program:

var simpleboggle = require('simpleboggle');

TBD

Development

git clone git://github.com/ajlopez/SimpleBoggle.git
cd SimpleBoggle
npm install
npm test

Samples

Compile Words Compile list of words into a json file, to be used in other samples.

Find Words Find words in a board, using the compile word list at lib/english.json.

To do

Versions

• 0.0.1: Published 2013-01-07, first version.
• 0.0.2: Published 2013-01-08, first samples, compiled English word list.
• 0.0.3: Under development, in master.

Word List

In version 0.0.2, the file lib/english.json was compiled using a word list of scowl project. The word list was taken from scowl.7.1, final/english-words.10, using compilewords sample. Acronyms were skipped. To do: compile more words.

In version 0.0.3, the same file was compiled using the world list from yawl, using word.list and sigword.list. See Yawl in this project.

Reference

• Boggle from Wikipedia
• Letter-by-Letter Word Games FAQ

Contribution

Feel free to file issues and submit pull requests — contributions are welcome.

If you submit a pull request, please be sure to add or update corresponding test cases, and ensure that npm test continues to pass.