![]() If you create a pangram, a word that uses all seven letters, you will score an additional seven points on top of the value of the word itself. Every word has a point value: Word length The only requirements are that you must use the center letter at least once in every word and words must be at least four letters long. You do not have to use every letter and you can use letters more than once. The goal of Free Bee is to make as many words as you can with the seven letters you are given. Or, if you are on a device with a touchscreen, you can tap the letters to make words. Words can be written by typing them into the input box or clicking on the letters. The dictionary should grow with the players. Even better, players can and should request the addition and removal of words via issues and pull requests. Never again wonder why a word was not accepted. Free Bee uses the Public Domain ENABLE dictionary as found here. Never be stuck waiting for the next daily game to play. One curated daily game per day and an infinite number of computer-generated games to play any time. Or write your own client with our easy to use API! Code and game improvements always welcome and accepted on our GitHub repository. Key improvements in Free Beeįree Software client. No longer are you stuck with only one game per day. It has all the features of the original game and more, including the ability to play a nearly infinite number of randomly generated games. The solution to any such puzzle is an easy one-line shellscript, also on the github page.Free Bee is an enhanced Free Software clone of The New York Times game Spelling Bee. Most things you think will make it faster make it slower. I absolutely recommend spending months optimizing a little but complicated program. I filed a bug on Gcc over it preferring the slow loop, but they decided the slow version was better: The final version does enough setup to enable most of the time to be spent in a four-instruction loop that a modern core can do in a single cycle per iteration, with occasional detours.Ĭompilers (clang is especially insistent) prefer to arrange the loop to take two cycles, and save a cycle on the long detours instead. Rust in 2016 was much more sensitive to arbitrary details of the source code. My first version ran in about a second, and I spent months shaving off milliseconds. My goal was the fastest single-threaded program that would fit on exactly one printed page. (Nowadays they run puzzles that score as low as 20 (pfft).) It finds about 4.8k puzzles, for 14us per. I wrote one to generate all possible versions of the weekly puzzle (minimum 5-letter words) that score between 26 and 32 points, that runs in under 70 ms. With this by taking it in different directions. ![]() Lovely to see how the author of this article and I both had a lot of fun Oh, and a web-based solver, for convenience: Performance and the rating threshold estimation are interesting: In my admittedly biased yet assuredly humble opinion, both the algorithm It was easy for me to transcribe thresholds from the archives of the Version also has score thresholds, but there are many more of them, and I didn’t get exactly the right function, but I got fairly close,Īnd most importantly the thresholds feel fair when playing. ![]() I had a bit of fun trying to reverse-engineer how those thresholds areĬhosen. The hard copy puzzles also include three score thresholds, so Least five letters long, not four, and are worth 1 point each, or 3 forĪ pangram. Which is slightly different from the web rule set: words must be at I used the “hard copy” rule set as used in the printed New York Times, Solutions to the puzzle but not the total size of the dictionary (after The running time is output-sensitive: proportional to the number of You can pack words into bitsets and express the whole algorithm in terms Out that you can get this thing to run quite fast once you realize that Six-year-old laptop, and can also typeset them to LaTeX+TikZ to make Puzzles (with my dictionary, there are 54733) in about 1.8 seconds on my Hey, I wrote one of these, too! Mine generates and solves all possible
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