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Notes about a remake of https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game/ to use for practice
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| // https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwyl/english-words/master/words_dictionary.json | |
| var list = JSON.parse(document.querySelector("pre").textContent); | |
| var allWords = Object.keys(list); | |
| var allowed = allWords.filter(({ length }) => length > 3); | |
| function increaseLetterCount(letters, letter) { | |
| if (!letters[letter]) { | |
| letters[letter] = 0; | |
| } | |
| letters[letter] += 1; | |
| return letters; | |
| } | |
| function getLetterCounts(word) { | |
| return word.split("").reduce(increaseLetterCount, Object.create(null)); | |
| } | |
| function getLetters(word) { | |
| return Object.keys(getLetterCounts(word)); | |
| } | |
| var letterCounts = allowed.reduce( | |
| (list, word) => { | |
| list[word] = getLetters(word) | |
| return list; | |
| }, | |
| Object.create(null), | |
| ); | |
| var pangrams = Object | |
| .entries(letterCounts) | |
| .filter(([ignore, { length }]) => length === 7) | |
| .map(([word]) => word); | |
| function random() { | |
| return window.crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint32Array(1))[0] / (2**32); | |
| } | |
| function getStartingLetters(pangrams) { | |
| return getLetters(pangrams[Math.floor(random() * pangrams.length)]); | |
| } |
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