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1tg46
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Posted: 28th Mar 2004 19:15 Edited at: 28th Mar 2004 19:25
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I am trying to make a word game but I can't seem to find the right code, or for that matter the right dictionary file/program that I could use to make the game turn out right.
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Posted: 28th Mar 2004 19:30
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You'll probably have to write your own game. But for the dictionary part there are free dictionary files that contain huge word lists. You just have to search the web for those and download them. You will also want to make sure that they're easy to read into your program.

When you find one, post a small section of the file and perhaps we can help you with the file IO source code.
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1tg46
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Posted: 28th Mar 2004 19:49 Edited at: 28th Mar 2004 19:51
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I just recently made the search and a great site is http://www.puzzlers.org/secure/wordlists/dictinfo.php . And when I was talking about having trouble with the code I was talking not about the game but making the opponent know the words. Sort of like intelligance.
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Posted: 29th Mar 2004 16:37
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I am still wondering how to make the computer intelligent in levels such as beginner intermediate advance etc. If their are no suggestions for this specific word game maybe for other games with computer opponents.
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 20:05
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Could you explain a little better? What do you mean you want the computer to know the words? Do you mean you want the computer to read in the dictionary to memory? I know a thing or two about how to do word games-- just need to know what you need

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Posted: 1st Apr 2004 02:02
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I have a file that has a list of every single word in the dictionary(supposedly, maybe not an unabridged), and what I am trying to do is to make so the computer can read the file correctly. And besides the reading of the file I don't want the computer to be to good for the player. For example if I have Dog down on my side, I don't want the computer to come up with the best play it could make. I want to give the player a chance to play.

P.S. The type of game I am trying to create is similar to Bali Word Game. The game is where you have 6 cards on your side, and 6 cards on the computers side. What you do is you build off the letters with the other letters on the board, and you can also steal words on your opponents side. Their will be 52 cards and a point value for some but not all the cards. To score at the end of the game, you take the point value of all the cards in the word and multiply by the number of cards used to make the word.

P.S.2. Just to inform you I will be making modifications of the game to prevent copyright infringement.
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2004 19:33
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Another problem I am now having is associating the cards to a letter of the alphabet, and one that can be any letter of the alphabet.
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