The ultimate cheating app for Scrabble and Literaki.
Available at https://scrabble-solver.kamilmielnik.com/ in English, French & Polish.
Run it locally for better performance (your machine surely is faster than that server).
It's cross-platform - all you need is Node.js.
npx scrabble-solveror
npm install -g scrabble-solver
# and then run anytime with:
scrabble-solverOpen http://localhost:3333/ if it didn't open up for you.
npm uninstall -g scrabble-solver
# The package stores logs and dicionaries in $HOME/.scrabble-solver
# It uses os.homedir() to get $HOME location.
rm -rf $HOME/.scrabble-solvernode 12.4.0+(should work with node10.0.0+though)- min.
1000px x 700pxviewport size (1500px x 1200pxrecommended)
| Language | Locale | Word list | Word list (source) | Word definitions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 English | en-GB | SOWPODS | download | Merriam-Webster |
| 🇺🇸 English | en-US | TWL06 | download | Merriam-Webster |
| 🇫🇷 French | fr-FR | hbenbel/French-Dictionary | download | Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales |
| 🇵🇱 Polish | pl-PL | SJP.PL | download | SJP.PL |
Back in January 2012 I wrote 200 lines of C++ code to load up a dictionary, store it in a Trie structure, read up to 7 letters from console input and traverse the Trie structure to find all the words that could be created from provided letters. I did it for 200 PLN (about 60 USD back then) and it was my first money earned by programming (assuming that beer is not a currency).
I enjoyed working on it and wanted to enhance that with some visuals to take it to the next level. So I created a simple Windows Forms project in C#, added support for "blank" characters & displayed the results grouped by word length. And I left it like that.
Some time later I got familiar with WPF and somehow I got the idea it would be fun to enhance the C# solver with a visual board input. This would provide solver with information which would allow to find a move that will give you the most points. So in September 2014 I started working on a new C# WPF project, but I haven't got far with it.
After getting experienced with JavaScript, I decided to tackle the challenge once again. I started a new project in February 2017. React on the front, node.js in the back. On September 13th 2017, five and a half years since the beginning, scrabble-solver@1.0.0 was released. And I saw it was good.
It got to 1.4.0 - I have added en-US & en-GB locales support, a mini tutorial and kept the dependencies up to date (e.g. upgraded React from 15 to 16).
Frontend development has changed, I've learned a few things - it was time for scrabble-solver@2.0.0. In 2019 I started to work on a new version. But due to many distractions the work took around 2 years to complete. Nevertheless, here it is, a shiny, state-of-the-art frontend app, January 2021 - 9 years after the first project.
A piece of history, available at http://scrabble-solver-v1.kamilmielnik.com/.