CrosswordSolver

Solves Multiplayer Crossword using Hit and Trial Method.

The code is adequately commented and will be easy to modify and make it work with other crossword puzzles too.

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Real Time Video, Not Sped Up:

See Full Video Here

How it Works

1. Takes the screenshot of the first box of the crossword
2. Does Image processing on it and then checks if it is black, filled or empty. (using np.mean)
3. If the box is empty it fills it with the first letter according to the frequency of alphabet in English language
4. It then clicks the Check All button and moves forward to next box.
5. This is repeated for all the alphabets for all the empty boxes until no box remains empty.

Note: Yes I know that it can just click the Check All button once after all the boxes are filled with the alphabet and it will make the program faster. I just found this approach a bit more pretty : ) Fell free to change it , in my testing it was about 4 sec faster.

Got more Ideas ? Feel free to dive into the code.

Perquisite:

• Python:

  Numpy

  pip install numpy

  Pyautogui

  pip install pyautogui

  OpenCV

  pip install opencv-python

  Mss

  pip install mss

Usage:

Open the Crossword Game
Start the python program by typing this in command prompt:
python3 cross.py

Extra:

Edit the p.PAUSE=0 to edit the time between the clicks , I recommend you start with 0.25 and reduce it from there

Edit the monitor = {"top":270,"left":20,"width":20,"height":20} to change the detection box for the first box of the crossword, try to make the detection box small and prevent the numbers on the crossword

Change the os.system('clear') to os.system('cls') if you are on windows.

Thanks:

Special thanks to Chris Zetter for making an awesome multiplayer crossword game

If you like this Project don't forget to go and star his repository too.