All:
My Mother recently had surgery and so I am home taking care of things during her recovery. One thing she has asked me to do is go get her a new "Word Search" book. The object is to find a list of words in a grid of letters. I thought this would be a great project to do for her in Perl on the computer so she wouldn't have to buy any more books again.

I see no reason to re-invent the wheel if someone knows a source where I can download one for free please let me know. If not, here are some of the ideas that I have:

  • Allow games to be saved/restored
  • Allow games to be timed
  • Allow words to be added to repository
  • Allow changing of font/color/size
  • Provide some functionality for creation/importation of theme puzzles such as "words that begin with the letter e" or "animals you might find in the ocean".
  • Ability to set a difficulty level: Some of the ideas I have hear is purposely misleading letter combinations and/or looking at the letter frequency distribution of the word list and using more of those letters as filler. Another idea that I am not sure would work is allowing words to "wrap" around the grid.

    • Now I have no idea how to implement any of these ideas from the Perl/Tk design to the code logic. Any of the following would be greatly appreciated:

  • Pointers to good resources
  • Code outline (pseudo/real) for any ideas listed
  • Ideas for new features
  • Offer for calloboration
  • General information

    • Cheers and thanks in advance - L~R

    In reply to Perl/Tk Word Search Help/Suggestions by Limbic~Region

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