Words Hunter

This is a TS implementation of a simple word game in which a player is ought to compose as much different words as he can from the given set of letters. The goal of the project is to help people learning English to practice words memoization and thus to extend the vocabulary (eventually).

Rules

• The player is given 16 letters and 2 minutes to compose as many English words as he or she can;
• Only a-z symbols are allowed in the input;
• The player gets 1 point for the first 3 letters of every word, and 1 more point for every consecutive letter, so e.g. the word set gives 1 point, while the word scores gives 4 points;
• Different forms of the same word (e.g. nouns in singular and plural forms, or verbs in present and past tenses) are considered as different words;
• The game relies on the free unofficial API for the google dictionaries, which has some limits on the pace of requests, so when those limits are hit, network errors might occur preventing the input word from being validated. In such a situation there is an arrow button that allows the player to repeat the request manually at any time (even after the timer runs out); should this manual request succeed, the results will be updated accordingly.

Contribution

I have some experience with C, C++ & Python, but this is my very first project on JS, and unfortunately I am also the one coding HTML & CSS for it, so most likely the code is full of bad practices. If you know how to do things better and are willing to share this sacred knowledge with me, please don't hesitate to file new issues, open PRs, or just contact me directly :)