PHP/Javascript How Many Such Words Game Tutorial
Do you like word games? Today’s game tests your vocabulary skills in English. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to help improve English vocabulary skills.
Programmers often use Linux dictionary files as a means to get a word list, and that list could be in any language, and for ours it is English.
This game has two parts to it for Javascript and PHP to respectively give you the user interaction as means of setting the criteria for your words and for you to make your guess on numbers of words, followed by the PHP looking up of the dictionary and send back results.
Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a live run, in that you try to guess the number of words of your selected criteria exist in the dictionary. You start with a score of 2000 and the mismatch between your guess and our dictionary’s findings is subtracted, and you try to keep your score positive for as many goes as you can.
And yet another thank you to The Free Dictionary for its great online presence as a dictionary resource, for the functionality to point at a listed word (optionally), for its dictionary meaning. The image map “click parts of the picture” vocabulary ESL tutorials at this blog use the same resource to explain dictionary information about clicked on “things”.
Anyway, see how you go with this very challenging “how many such words” game (it could help you produce crosswords)!
Here is a link to some downloadable PHP (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to howmany.php
If this was interesting you may be interested in this too.
