Omelette is a word game I started working on out of sheer boredom — I spent so much time playing a similar word game on my phone that I got fed up with the word list it was using and decided to write a version where I could specify the words.
A note on usage: The game does not come with a pre-generated word list — before running it for the first time, you must generate one. See here for more details.
Aside from basic text-editing controls for the word box, the following is a list of controls for the game as it currently stands (assuming an xterm-like console):
| Key | Command |
|---|---|
Ctrl+D |
Quit the application. |
Tab |
Shuffle the remaining letters. |
Ctrl+Bksp |
Clear the word box. |
Esc |
Forfeit the current level and pick a new word. |
Enter |
Submit your guess. |
Shift+Tab |
Toggle auto-sorting the remaining letters alphabetically. |
If you have a word list and want to use it with Omelette, the source tree inside
tools/gen-words can be built and run to generate a JSON word list file from
a plain text file containing the words to use, separated by newlines.
Also in the tools folder is scrape-words, a tool designed to generate a
plaintext word list from some body of text. It supports collecting data from
different sources and performing frequency analysis on it — see
its readme for more details.