PHP Pictogram Word Decoding Game Primer Tutorial
In ancient Egyptian times writing took the form of hieroglyphics often on papyrus and wood. This form of writing was both logographic (a grapheme which represents a word) and alphabetic. We humans process pictorial input representing concepts quite well.
Today, though, we place pictures (or pictograms) to represent individual letters of words, but, unlike hieroglyphics, these pictograms have no real relationship to what they represent … it is your job to decode these English words.
To do the decoding you’ll need to call on your instincts and experience of the patterns of letters in words, especially looking for …
- repeated letters
- likely prefixes
- likely suffixes
… unfortunately the 6 words presented have no relationship to each other and there are no short words to help, but sometimes you get given one letter that is filled in for you.
The pictograms are presented in the HTML via unicode syntax and here are some good links below regarding this …
Here is the PHP source code you could call decodepictowords.php for a live run … happy decoding!
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