PHP/Javascript Decoding Scrambled Words Game Tutorial
Do you like word games? Today’s game takes four randomly generated words, encodes them, and asks you to decode them … the words have 4 to 9 characters in them … mind you, out of them, you’d have 奇怪的字符 or 変な文字 or веселые персонажи or 이상한 문자 or مضحکہ خیز حروف or 奇怪的字符 or अजीब अक्षर or სასაცილო გმირები or តួអក្សរដែលគួរឱ្យអស់សំណើច or வேடிக்கை எழுத்துக்கள் or ตัวตลก or الأحرف مضحك or מאָדנע אותיות or રમૂજી અક્ષરો or αστείους χαρακτήρες or ತಮಾಷೆಯ ಪಾತ್ರಗಳು or মজার অক্ষর or ລັກສະນະ funny or вясёлыя персанажы or హాస్య అక్షరాలు … we’re going to call the game “Decoding Scrambled Words” … and you score a point for each unscrambled set of words. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary.
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, so to make it for another language, change the code inside the four file_get_contents() calls in decodewords.php
This game has two parts to it for PHP and Javascript to respectively get a word to use and arrange the user interaction.
Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a live run.
Thank you to The Free Dictionary for its great online presence as a dictionary resource, for the functionality to optionally explain a word’s 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 game of interest and history!
Anyway, see how you go with this game of logic and tactics!
Maybe a view of this could inspire you?!
Here is a link to some downloadable PHP (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to decodewords.php
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