![]() ![]() I had always suspected that I wasn’t good at the game luckily for me, Wordament, Microsoft’s online multiplayer tournament version, left me in no doubt at all.Ĭlearly, if I was to improve my score, I would need to diligently practice cheat. The algo for finding the words needs a bit of a tidy up, it's bloated at the moment from my initial workings, I'll look at this next too.When I was younger, I used to play a word game called Boggle, where one would try to find as many words as possible from random letters.It doesn't give the app the focus automatically.It really doent matter, just type in a number for these cells, you'll still win. It doesn't cater for the -ly, Lik- or XX type cells at the moment.You have type the grid in yourself - it doesn't screen grab.It excludes all words of 2 or less letters. The code uses a Scrabble dictionary that I found online. I then discovered that on the PC version you can "type" the words in, so SendKeys became an option. At this point I was playing on my iPhone, so "sending" the words to the app was pretty much impossible. However, even if you did this, you couldn't type them in fast enough to get position #1, or actually anywhere near. Initially I wrote a very basic, and hacky algorithm to just scan through the grid and find all words in a given dictionary and print them out. ![]() Guess what, I can now fairly reliably get position #1. So I thought I'd have a go at cheating myself. After playing Microsoft's Wordament online for a while, it became apparent to me that there is absolutely no way that the people who are coming in at the top of the leaderboards are playing "fair". ![]()
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