Boggle Solver

A Solver for the word game Boggle.

Installation

Install Rust, and compile this program

$ git clone https://github.com/matematikaadit/boggle-solver.git
$ cd boggle-solver
$ rustc -O boggle.rs

Or replace the last command with

$ make

Explanation and Usage

Boggle is a word game played on 4x4 grid letter. The goal is to find as many dictionary word as possible by traversing the grid. Here an example of such word found in one of the game

Example of the word TOURING found in a boggle game

To get all the solutions to those game above, you can run the following

$ ./boggle "ingc cito iaro tkru"

You build the string representation of the grid by joining the letters in the same row next to each other, and then insert one space between each row. That invocation will use /usr/share/dict/words dictionary file by default. If you're on windows, you can supply your own dictionary file as the second argument. Each word should be separated by newline in the dictionary file.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Adit Cahya Ramadhan

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Resource for Online Play

• wordplays.com/boggle
• full rust online multiplayer boggle implementation by panicbit

Possible Improvement and Future Ideas

• Sort the solution by the word's length so that you can input the longest word first
• Use Trie instead of HashSet and benchmark the running time (current HashSet implementation is quite fast, less than 1 second for standard 4x4 grid and the default dictionary file)
• Write your own boggle game: TUI, GUI, Mobile app, or maybe Web-based