cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4516333
Spelion is a word spelling puzzle.
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/spelion
Using just the given 7 letters, you are called to form as many words as possible.
Rules
- The word that you form must include the center letter.
- You don’t have to use all the other letters.
- Minimum length of the word that you create is four letters.
- Any given letters can be used more than one time in a word.
- The word list is contained in
/usr/share/dict/words, minus words with upper-case letters, words with apostrophe and words containing letters with accent marks.Name
The name SPELION was just a made up word with letters that could form the root spel(l), while at the same time these letters could appear in a (recursive) Spelion puzzle. The name stuck when I found out that by pure chance Spelion was also an anagram of the greek letter epsilon.
So it’s basically https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee but without the hand-curated answer list?
I get kind of annoyed by what words they decide to add or leave out on a given day. I feel like the hand curated aspect makes it feel like major BS when you think of a good word that isn’t valid and then you see “woot” and “psht” or shit in other languages as valid words.
This is very annoying, especially in wordle.
For this I chose the word list as is contained in /usr/share/dict/words, minus words with upper-case letters, words with apostrophe and words containing letters with accent marks. One minor thing I have to do is “grep” rid of latin numerals that pop up, like xxxvi,xxiv etc.