Pyggle

Find all possible words given a boggle board and words (or none!), with a visual representation on how the algorithm works on the web!

Web Demo: Coming Soon!

Tech Stack

The frontend is developed using TypeScript and the Next.js framework, with Tailwind CSS as the chosen CSS framework.

The backend framework chosen for this project is FastAPI, a performant Python-based web framework. In FastAPI, I create API endpoints to communicate with the frontend (the client). These endpoints are designed to decipher the given boggle board from the client and return all possible combinations, coordinates, and score using Pyggle. The user can also send an image of a boggle board where I use OpenCV to preprocess the image and use EasyOCR to accurately retrieve the characters from the boggle board.

The words and coordinates are then sent to the client as a JSON payload for the frontend to render.

Package

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/pyggle/

Installation

pip install pyggle

Usage

Input is case sensitive (for the board).

The input would consist of: an N x M board as a string with rows separated by spaces. Alternatively, you can pass in a list of lists where each element is the character on the board.

If words is not passed as an argument, it will utilize a text file that consists of 479k words.

If official is not given as a boolean argument, find all words regardless of length, and the letter 'Q' is not represented as 'Qu'. If official is passed as a boolean argument, then the algorithm follows the official rules of boggle. Pyggle will solve and:

• find all words that have a length greater than 3.
• The letter 'Q' is now represented as 'Qu'.

from pyggle import Boggle

board = "ea st"

boggle = Boggle(board)

boggle.print_result()

For more functions from pyggle, check:

• lib/examples/2x2_example.py for general functions and more specificity
• lib/examples/qu_example.py for an example where the letter 'Q' represents 'Qu'
• lib/docs/boggle-api.md for an understanding of each method

Output

I don't know how "ae" or "aes" or "ast" is a word, but w/e :P

a: [(0, 1)]
ae: [(0, 1), (0, 0)]
aes: [(0, 1), (0, 0), (1, 0)]
aet: [(0, 1), (0, 0), (1, 1)]
as: [(0, 1), (1, 0)]
ase: [(0, 1), (1, 0), (0, 0)]
ast: [(0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1)]
at: [(0, 1), (1, 1)]
ate: [(0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0)]
ates: [(0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0), (1, 0)]
e: [(0, 0)]
ea: [(0, 0), (0, 1)]
east: [(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1)]
eat: [(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)]
eats: [(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (1, 0)]
es: [(0, 0), (1, 0)]
est: [(0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1)]
et: [(0, 0), (1, 1)]
eta: [(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]
etas: [(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1), (1, 0)]
s: [(1, 0)]
sa: [(1, 0), (0, 1)]
sae: [(1, 0), (0, 1), (0, 0)]
sat: [(1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)]
sate: [(1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (0, 0)]
se: [(1, 0), (0, 0)]
sea: [(1, 0), (0, 0), (0, 1)]
seat: [(1, 0), (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)]
set: [(1, 0), (0, 0), (1, 1)]
seta: [(1, 0), (0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]
st: [(1, 0), (1, 1)]
sta: [(1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]
t: [(1, 1)]
ta: [(1, 1), (0, 1)]
tae: [(1, 1), (0, 1), (0, 0)]
tas: [(1, 1), (0, 1), (1, 0)]
te: [(1, 1), (0, 0)]
tea: [(1, 1), (0, 0), (0, 1)]
teas: [(1, 1), (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0)]
ts: [(1, 1), (1, 0)]