Background
My girlfriend started playing the NYT Spelling Bee game (along with all the others). I decided it would be fun to try to write a solver that would print out potential solutions in order of how many points each would give you.
I grabbed an extensive wordlist with 344,812 entries.
This would produce a good amount of false positives, but these aren’t penalized by the game.
After my first draft, I realized that I didn’t do enough research and learned that words using all of the tiles gained an extra 7 points.
This was added next.
After this I realized that it would be useful to send the output to a file so I created an -f flag that would send the possible solutions to a file prefixed with the day’s date.
Repository
The code can be found at: