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Games::Literati - For word games like Literati (or Scrabble, or Words With Friends), find the best-scoring solution(s) for a board and hand of tiles.
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Example Windows-based one-liner:
Example linux-based one-liner:
Export Tags
- :allGames =>
literati(),wordswithfriends(),scrabble(),superscrabble() - :configGame =>
$WordFile,$MinimumWordLength - :infoFunctions =>
n_rows(),n_cols(),numTilesPerHand(),get_solutions() - :miscFunctions =>
reduce_hand()
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Games::Literati helps you find out all solutions for a given board and tiles. It can be used to play Scrabble (the original 15x15 grid), Super Scrabble (the official 21x21 extended grid), Literati (an old Yahoo! Games 15x15 grid, from which Games::Literati derives its name), and Words With Friends (a newer 15x15 grid). By overriding or extending the package, one could implement other similar letter-tile grids, with customizable bonus placements.
To use this module to play the games, a one-liner such as the following can be used:
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(This will only work if `./wordlist' is in the current directory. Otherwise, see 'PUBLIC VARIABLES', below.)
Enter the data prompted then the best 10 solutions will be displayed.
Board Input
The game will prompt you for each row of the board, one row at a time
And will expect you to enter the requested row's data. It expects one character for each column on the board. Thus, on a standard 15x15 board, it will expect each row to contain 15 characters. The `.' character represents an empty square. Individual letters (in lower case) represent tiles that have already been laid on the board. (Don't worry about indicating wild tiles just yet; that will come momentarily.) An example input row could be:
After requesting the last row, the Games::Literati will display the board as it received it, and ask you
At this point, it is expecting you to type either `yes' or `no'. If you answer `yes', the game will progress. If you answer `no', it will start over asking for row 0:. If you answer with anything else, it will ask you again if everything is correct.
Once you have entered `yes', Games::Literati will ask you for the coordinates of the any wild tiles already on the board
Row# and Col# are 0-referenced, so the upper left of the board is 0,0, and the lowe right of the standard board is 14,14. Multiple wild tiles are space-separated. If there have not been any wild tiled played yet, just hit ENTER, giving it an empty input. If you have wilds, with one at one-tile diagonally from the upper right and the second two tiles diagonally from the lower-left, you would enter
If your coordinates resolve to an empty tile (.) or a tile that's not on the board, you will be notified:
Finally, after receiving a valid input for the wilds, Games::Literati will ask you for what tiles are in your hand.
You should enter anywhere from 1 to 7 tiles (for a standard game). Letter tiles should be in lower case; wild tiles are indicated by a question mark `?'.
It is recommended to pre-write everything into a file. and run the program via command-line. See the 'SAMPLE TURNS', below.
These samples will use input file t, to help ensure the correct input format.
As described above, the first 15 lines represent board situation, followed with 'yes', followed by wild tile positions, if none, place a empty line here, then followed by tiles (can be less than 7), use ? to represent wild tiles. Please make sure the last line in your file ends with a full NEWLINE character on your system (it's safest to add a blank line after the list of tiles).
Make sure to put `./wordlist' in the working directory when running the program, or to set $WordFile as described in 'PUBLIC VARIABLES', below.
First Turn
Create game file named t, like this:
Run the game from the command line:
The output will be (depending on word list)
If you run the same board with the Scrabble engine:
You will get
Intermediate Turn
For most turns, you input file the t containing a partially populated game, such as:
Run the game from the command line:
The output will be (depending on word list)
If you run the same board with the Scrabble engine:
You will get
Good luck!:)
These functions execute each of the games. As shown in the 'SYNOPSIS' and 'SAMPLE TURNS', each turn generally requires just one call to the specific game function. Each function implements the appropriate 15x15 (or 20x20 for superscrabble) grid of bonus scores.
There are two optional arguments to the game functions:
The minimum number of tiles to play, which defaults to 1. If you want to only allow your computer player (ie, the Games::Literati module) to play 3 or more tiles, you would set min=3.
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The maximum number of tiles to play, which defaults to all the tiles in the given hand. If you want to restrict your computer player to play 5 or fewer tiles, you would set max=5. It will check to ensure that max is bounded by the numTilesPerHand().
If you want to specify max, you must also specify a min.
If you specify max less than min, Games::Literati will not play any tiles.
Thus, specifying literati(3,5) will restrict the computer Literati player to using 3, 4, or 5 tiles on this turn.
Returns number of rows or columns for the most recent game type
Returns number of tiles in a full hand for the most recent game type
Returns a hash, whose elements are described in the example below
Returns the new hand tiles, with the played tiles removed.
Finds possible valid words, based on the hashref provided. When playing the automated game using the above functions, this is not needed, but it is provided to give you access to a function similar to the internal function, but it outputs extra information to the user.
A reference to a hash containing the keys letters, re, and internal.
This is the list of letters available to play.
This is a string which will be evaluated into a perl regular expression that is evaluated to determine. Note: this requres the full regex syntax, so use '/c.t/' to indicate you are looking for valid letters to put between a `c' and a `t'.
(Boolean) If set to a true value, find() will be quiet (not print to standard output) and will return an array-reference of possible solutions. If false, find() will print suggested words to STDOUT.
Note: The find() function is not under active development, and changes to the internal function might not be replicated to this public function. (It is documented and left exportable to be backward compatible with the original Games::Literati 0.01 release.)
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These variables are exportable, so can be fully qualified as %Games::Literati::WordFile, or if included in the export list when you use the module, you can reference them directly, as
The $WordFile points to a text document, which lists one valid word per line.
The variable defaults to './wordfile'. (in version 0.01, that was the only value, and there was no variable.)
You may change the default wordfile by setting this variable to the path to find the list.
Sources for $WordFile
Your OS may include a builtin dictionary (such as /usr/dict/words or /usr/share/dict/words). Beware: these often have numbers or punctuation (periods, hyphens), which may interfere with proper functioning
ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon): a public-domain list with more than 173,000 words, available at a variety of locations, including in an old google code repository as 'enable1.txt' The ENABLE dictionary is used by a variety of online tools, and is the primary source for the official Words With Friends dictionary.
Anthony Tan has delved into the Words With Friends app, and has compared their internal list to the original ENABLE list at http://www.greenworm.net/notes/2011/05/02/words-friends-wordlist
If you want to use one of the lists from a website, you will need to download the list to a file, and set $WordFile to the path to your downloaded list.
For each word that Games::Literati parses from the $WordList file, it will set $valid{word} to 1.
Default = 2. This is used when parsing the dictionary file (during var_init) to ignore words that are too short. Most of these games don't allow single-letter words ('I', 'a').
Please report any bugs or feature requests thru the web interface at https://github.com/pryrt/Games-Literati/issues.
A simple interface (with examples) for play your own custom grid is in the works. Studying the source code may point you in the right direction if you want a custom grid before the customization features are made public.
Chicheng Zhang <chichengzhang AT hotmail.com> wrote the original code.
Peter C. Jones <petercj AT cpan.org> is the current maintainer, and has added various features and made bug fixes.
Copyright (c) 2003, Chicheng Zhang. Copyright (C) 2016,2019,2020 by Peter C. Jones
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Games::Literati, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.
Overview
This Literati review takes a look at the new color ebook reader by Sharper Image. While the name on the box says Sharper Image, it is made by a company called Merchsource.
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The Literati was released in October for a suggested retail price of $199. It sells from a number of major retail stores including Bed, Bath and Beyond, Best Buy, J.C. Penney, Kohl's, Macy's, and others.
Literati Review: First Impressions
The Literati by Sharper Image is a very basic ebook reader. That's not necessarily a knock on the device; that's how it was designed to be.
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While its elongated design somewhat resembles the Augen eReader, it is in no way like that device. The Literati is not a multi-purpose ereader/tablet hybrid. It does not have a web browser or video player or even an audio player. It is solely an ebook reader.
First off, the Literati comes in a gigantic box that looks like an oversized book. Normally I wouldn't mention the box, but this one is worth a picture. It's about 13' tall and 3.5' wide. Here it is next to the box for the Sony PRS-650 to give it some perspective.
Out of the box the Literati comes with a cover, AC charger, USB cable, and some pre-installed free ebooks, with an option to download an additional 125 classic ebooks. It ties in directly with Kobo eBooks and has WiFi for connecting to the Kobo ebook store.
With its narrow screen and full QWERTY keyboard, at first glance the Literati ebook reader is a little odd looking.
It has a 7-inch color LCD display with an aspect ratio of 800 x 480—making it a lot longer and narrower than the more typical 6-inch ereader sized at 800 x 600.
The screen isn't glossy and colors are bright and vivid. The device is geared more toward books with colors, like children's books, cookbooks, textbooks, magazines, and newspapers. There's not a large selection of those just yet at Kobo, but more are coming apparently.
The page turn buttons on both sides of the screen actually aren't buttons. There's a sensor that detects when you press/swipe them, but doesn't seem to react all the time with this version of firmware. You can also use the main navigation wheel on the lower right of the device's keyboard to turn pages.
The navigation wheel takes some getting used to. The center button is higher than the outer ring of buttons, making it hard to hit the up, down, and side buttons without hitting the center one. This makes you have to use the tip of your thumb instead of the surface of it like you would with the main control on the Kindle 3.
The cover that comes with the Literati greatly resembles a book cover. It has a really nice, soft, book cover feel to it—not sure what kind of material it is. The one problem, however, is that there is an inner sleeve that holds the bottom of the unit that rides a little too close to the main navigation buttons, making them even more difficult to hit accurately with my large thumb.
The Literati is made out of hard plastic and feels pretty solid. The edges are tapered so it fits in your hand comfortably holding either one or two-handed. There are two color variations for the device, white and black.
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Preliminary Specs and Features
There aren't any official technical specs for the Literati listed yet on the Literati website, so this is what my trusty tape measure has to say: 9 3/8' tall by 4 7/8' wide by 1/2' inch thick. A little on the heavy side, I'd estimate the weight to be between 14 and 18 ounces.
For memory, the device comes with 256MB of internal memory and has an SD memory card slot.
The device can read Adobe EPUB and PDF ebooks and DRM-free EPUB and PDF files, along with TXT documents.
For EPUB and TXT ebooks, there are 5 adjustable text sizes and two text types, serif and sans-serif. There are 7 levels of brightness to adjust and there is a dictionary to look up words (you have to manually type the word to be looked-up). There's a table of contents to jump between chapters, as well as selections to go to the next or previous chapters. It needs a margin adjusting feature, though, because margins are often way too big with the narrow screen.
More features will be issued via a firmware update to add night-reading mode and custom bookshelves and bookmarks like the Kobo desktop app.
Speaking of the Kobo desktop app, the device works with and syncs with all of Kobo's reading apps. It also works with Adobe Digital Editions for borrowing library ebooks from local libraries.
Literati Review: PDF files
For PDF files there are different viewing options than with EPUB and TXT ebooks. PDFs don't have adjustable text sizes, instead there are 6 different levels of zoom, from 100% to 200% in increments of 25, with a full page option as well.
Once zoomed in, you use the navigation wheel to pan around the page. There's also an option to view the PDF in landscape mode. There is no reflow mode or hyperlink support.
The same as with ebooks, there is a table of contents, options to jump between the next and previous chapters, and a dictionary to type in words to be looked-up.
Overall, PDF support isn't anything to write home about, but it is better than I expected it to be. The device seems to naturally cut away large margins so the text fits to the edges. In default whole page view, the text is generally more legible than with 6-inch ereaders like the Kindle 3 and Sony PRS-650.
Kobo Bookstore
The Literati connects to the Kobo ebook store for access to a wide library of ebooks in EPUB and sometimes PDF format. Kobo's ebooks use Adobe DRM so they are compatible with a large number of ebook readers and ereader programs like Adobe Digital Editions.
One thing about the Kobo ebook store is that it has a nice clean layout with lots of sorting and searching options. The book covers are full color and look great on the Literati's screen. There are a number of categories and ways to find new ebooks. There's even a section for free ebooks.
Once you download an ebook, it becomes apart of your Kobo library so that you can download it to other Kobo-supported devices and Kobo applications.
Literati Review: Conclusion
Since the Literati doesn't play video, display photos, or surf the web, the fact that it is a color ebook reader doesn't do a whole lot for it. The vast majority of ebooks you can buy from Kobo (or anywhere else for that matter) don't have any need for color when everything is in black and white text.
However, according to the documentation that comes with the Literati, there's supposed to be a lot of color content coming to the Kobo store soon in the form of newspapers and magazines, as well as more children's books, cookbooks, and stuff along that line that has color illustrations.
The fact that the Literati has a backlit LCD screen will appeal to some and not others. It makes reading at night possible, but does have its drawbacks in that viewing quality declines in brighter lighting conditions and the battery life is only a few hours instead of a few weeks.
What it comes down to is that the Literati is designed to be a basic ebook reader for those new to ereading. It doesn't have a lot of features or customizing options, and could greatly benefit from some firmware updates to improve overall usability and stability, but it does do what it says it will in an easy-to-learn, straightforward manner. Overall, given the features of the device the price is too high, especially considering similar-priced devices like the PocketBook IQ and Pandigital Novel that have a lot more features.