Interesting idea. There are 25 letters on each board, some are always repeats. I think I'd need
a good regex so I wouldn't have to run the filter command multiple times. How's your regex?
On the other hand, I suppose filtering out even just 2 or 3 letters might make a dent. I'll try
that first.
On 3/5/22 8:36 PM, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote:
So… a Boggle game. Hm. Seems to me that anything you can do to reduce the
number of words you need consider at any given time would be a win. Maybe not a
*big* win, but still a win. So perhaps give this idea a shot:
When you create a new board:
-- Make a list of all the letters which *are not* on the board
-- Filter out any word that contains at least one letter on the "not on this
board" list
-- Use the thus-reduced wordlist for all purposes as long as the board doesn't
change
This would add a bit of overhead to the process of setting up a new board, but
if it results in time savings during play, the extra overhead might be
worthwhile anyway.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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