Dark magic, Python 🐍, and the python_telegram_bot library.
This bot allows potentially infinite players to play Boggle at the same time, while keeping the social distance required in these trying times.
- automatic word validation: if a word's not possible to make, the bot will tell you
- automatic detection for re-sent words and words that are too short
- integrated check for words in common with other players
- personal and group statistics
This bot also has persistency, so that it can save all your stats to a database that will survive at least a restart (but I can't promise anything in case of a zombie apocalypse).
You can find this bot at https://t.me/boggle_paroliere_bot. Add it to a group chat to play!
If you want to run this bot on your own server, you need at least Python 3.6 and to follow these simple steps:
git clone https://github.com/e-caste/boggle-telegram-botcd boggle-telegram-botpython3 -m venv venvsource venv/bin/activatepip install -r requirements.txtpython boggle_telegram_bot.py- When you're done:
deactivateto exit the virtual environment where you've installed the requirements.
There is no noticeable improvement by using PyPy instead of CPython.