COWS & BULLS

word guessing game

The number of cows is the number of correctly guessed letters in incorrect positions. The number of bulls is the number of correctly guessed letters in the correct positions. In each turn, you get to enter a valid English word as a guess. Keep in mind, your word should have all unique letters and the word's length should be equal to the game's chosen word length.

Features:

1. Can build the game DB by crawling a given word list.
2. Fetches word meanings from given word list or can harvest the results page of:
   • Merriam Webster Online
   • Longman Online dictionaries.
3. Has 8300+ pre-harvested english words + meanings in the game's SQLite DB where:
   • All letters in a word are unique.
   • Word sizes are either 4, 5 or 6.
4. Uses dictionary lookups to validate words that the user enters. (much more efficient than linear search on a list)
5. Uses the word meaning to provide hints at the cost of lives.
6. Reveals the word as well as its meaning at the end of a game, which is a nice way to increase your vocabulary.
7. Scoring system rewards the player with lives periodically.
8. Kid Mode - Highlights the cows and bulls with different colours.
9. Coloured CLI.

Coming up:

• GUI support using Qt4