Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by altlabs » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 7:20 AM UTC

Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress
letterwords.co

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by selectout » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 8:11 AM UTC

Haha, great little app. For the benefit of the 'cheaters' out there that use this I would recommend adding it so that it shows maybe 10 of the longest words and options to view more, then 10 of maybe 5-7 letters long, then 25 of the sub 5 letter words. That way people can easier pick believable words instead of unbelievable words like "whirlybirds" or 'discursively'. Maybe that's just me though.

With that said...don't cheat.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by altlabs » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 8:13 AM UTC

selectout wrote: post #2

Haha, great little app. For the benefit of the 'cheaters' out there that use this I would recommend adding it so that it shows maybe 10 of the longest words and options to view more, then 10 of maybe 5-7 letters long, then 25 of the sub 5 letter words. That way people can easier pick believable words instead of unbelievable words like "whirlybirds" or 'discursively'. Maybe that's just me though. With that said...don'…

Thanks! I am currently working on breaking the words down into groups just like that. Hope to push it out soon.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 8:38 AM UTC

Neat. I look forward to the inevitable OCR-based iOS app.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by gingerlime » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 9:21 AM UTC

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is Letterpress? Pretty much everything I managed to find online was describing a method for printing...

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by ehamberg » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

gingerlime wrote: post #5

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is Letterpress? Pretty much everything I managed to find online was describing a method for printing...

It's a new iOS game. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterpress-word-game/id5266...

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by dave84 » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 11:42 AM UTC

Great stuff. I have a Python version here: https://github.com/thedavesims/LetterHack

It was very basic but it's had some great contributions since.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by orofino » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 11:46 AM UTC

altlabs wrote: post #3

selectout wrote: post #2

Haha, great little app. For the benefit of the 'cheaters' out there that use this I would recommend adding it so that it shows maybe 10 of the longest words and options to view more, then 10 of maybe 5-7 letters long, then 25 of the sub 5 letter words. That way people can easier pick believable words instead of unbelievable words like "whirlybirds" or 'discursively'. Maybe that's just me though. With that said...don'…

Thanks! I am currently working on breaking the words down into groups just like that. Hope to push it out soon.

filtering on a particular letter would be good as well, using a 'q' without a 'u' is a pain, but none of the words suggested have the q used because the words are too short.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by altlabs » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 1:39 PM UTC

Just pushed out a few changes. You can now see all words plus filter based on word length.

Re: Show HN: I built an app to find words in Letterpress

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Post by davidwen » Sat, Nov 03, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

Nice! What dictionary did you use? Do you know if it's the same one that LetterPress uses?

I've been thinking about coding a player for LetterPress. Longest word mixed in with some endgame logic would actually probably do fairly well against most players, but it'd be interesting to see what other strategies would come into play.