Alphabear Solver

Modified from here for use with iOS Pythonista 3

A simple python script that is intended to be used to solve game boards on the mobile game Alphabear by Spry Fox.

Can also be used as a Countdown with an arbitrary number of letters, not just 8 like in the game show.

Uses a dictionary, generated to map.json, from dictionary.txt. It's the "official" SOWPODS dictionary with a few changes from the Alphabear changelogs.

Usage

To use this script, you'll need Pythonista 3 installed.

1. Make sure you have a ton of words in dictionary.txt, one word per line. A wordlist is included here but you can modify it if you want.
2. Run hashdict.py to create a hashmap map.json
3. Run solver.py

Everytime you change/update the dictionary, you'll need to rerun hashdict.py

Todo

• Fix word length filtering, based on this
• Read letters from game input.
• Calculate the actual in game points.

References

• Dictionary (dictionary.txt) is taken from here

• [The World's Fastest Scrabble Program] (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15451-s06/www/lectures/scrabble.pdf) - Andrew W. Appel & Guy J. Jacobson (1988)