NAME

Games::Literati -- Literati resolver

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Literati;

DESCRIPTION

Games::Literati helps you find out ALL solutions for a given board and tiles. Similarly it can be used to play Scrabble.

The documentation of standalone functions will be added.

To used it to play the games:

use Games::Literati;

literati(min_tiles, max_tiles);

enter the data prompted then the best 10 solution will be displayed.

literati(3,7);
literati();      # use 1-7 tiles.
scrabble();

It is recommended to pre-write everything into a file. and run the program via command-line.

In the file, the first 1-15 lines represent board situation, followed with "yes", followed by wild tile positions, if none, place a empty line here, then followed by tiles (can be less than 7), use ? to represent wild tiles.

<B>make sure to put `wordlist' in the working directory when running. the program.

For example, the file is named `t':

 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 .......c.......
 ......ai.......
 .......s.header
 .......t....r..
 ...jurors..soup
 .......o....p.h
 .upsilon.f..pea
 .......speering
 .........s..n.e
 .........t..g..
 .........e
 ........broils
 yes
 7,8 10,14 7,14
 eurmsss
 <file end with a CR>

 from the command line:

 perl -e'use Games::Literati qw(literati); literati()' < t

 [....] 
 using 7 tiles:
 using 6 tiles:
 (9)     row 3 become: 'cussers' starting at column 8
 (9)     row 12 become: 'russets' starting at column 4
 using 5 tiles:
 (8)     row 3 become: 'cruses' starting at column 8
 (8)     row 3 become: 'curses' starting at column 8

 [...]

  Possible Ten Best Solution 1: column 3 become: 
  'susses' starting at row 10  using 5 tile(s), score 24
  Possible Ten Best Solution 2: column 3 become: 'serums' 
  starting at row 10  using 5 tile(s), score 24
  Possible Ten Best Solution 3: column 14 become: 'muser' 
  starting at row 1  using 4 tile(s), score 15
 [...]

 or

 perl -e'use Games::Literati qw(scrabble); scrabble()' < t

 [...]
 Possible Ten Best Solution 1: row 14 become: 'embroils' 
 starting at column 6  using 2 tile(s), score 36
 Possible Ten Best Solution 2: column 2 become: 'spumes' 
 starting at row 8  using 5 tile(s), score 22
 [...]


 Example 2:

 From beginning of the game, create file 't' like this:
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 ...............
 yes

 ?omment


 $perl -e'use Games::Literati qw(literati); literati()' < t

 [...]
 using 7 tiles:
 (47)    row 7 become: 'comment' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (47)    row 7 become: 'memento' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (47)    row 7 become: 'metonym' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (47)    row 7 become: 'momenta' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (47)    row 7 become: 'momento' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 [...]
 

 $ perl -e'use Games::Literati qw(scrabble);scrabble()' < t
 
 [...]
 (76)    row 7 become: 'comment' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (76)    row 7 become: 'memento' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 (72)    row 7 become: 'metonym' starting at column 1 (BINGO!!!!)
 [...]

 good luck!:)

 

AUTHOR

chichengzhang@hotmail.com.