Word Search Generator Pdf Download
Daryl Kowal
I am creating a word search generator in Python, but i'm having a problem with the words appearing the grid. When the grid is made, the coordinates are there for one of the letters but not the whole word. I'm not sure which parts going wrong, any help would be much appreciated
I suggest a bit of work to flesh the idea out, because two words can overlap on the same grid (e.g. in the example below, the D in DOOR replaced the O in HELLO). Also, in the directions matrix as written, the top-left to bottom-right diagonal direction is possible, but the top-right to bottom-left diagonal is not. Perhaps the ideas help. Below is some tweaked code:
I'm writing a Word search puzzle in c# and I'm almost done, only missing one thing. I have a char[,] matrix that I fill up with words I read from a txt file, and if there's no available places for a word left, I fill up the remaining spots with random letters. My problem is that I don't know how to make words that contains the some letter cross eachother. Here's my code for the word placing:
I've recently created a word search generator app as an attempt to explore constraint-based solution finding algorithms. The app is simple but powerful enough to provide some flexibility. The user can enter a list of words, the size of the grid, and a few other options, then click "Create!" and have a word search created. Then, they can save as an image or print. The user can also toggle having the word search show or hide the solutions.
I plan to add some more functionality at some point: profanity filter to ensure randomly generated sequences of characters don't form bad words, as well as the possibility for words to intersect with each other.
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You could only use letters that appear in the words to fill in the blank cells. This would make the puzzles slightly harder, and may randomly add partial words into the puzzle. It would however increase the chance of randomly duplicating short words within the puzzle.
I tried it out with a list of 95 Harry Potter names (max length 22, grid size = 22/0.8 = 27). The puzzle seemed to generate quite well but I noticed that while two of the names (Justrin-Finchley and You-Know-Who) contained hyphens there was only one hyphen in the grid. So not all the words are always included in the list and there is no indication of which words have been included and which not.
I have made a word-search-generator with Python 3 and it works perfectly. Can you please tell me if what I have done is done in the right way? Also, please tell me how the code is performance-wise. I have tried my best to write helpful comments.
Sanitize your inputs. If a word contains _ , then I suspect your program will not work as intended. As an addendum, don't use sentinel values that could actually be valid. A better option here would be to store blanks as None.
Refrain from using exceptions unless your case is truly exceptional. In here, it's not very uncommon for a word to conflict with another letter. In this case, performance isn't going to matter but it may in a more CPU-intensive program.
It's quite easy for your program to enter an infinite loop especially if the word list is large. This is because it won't be able to fit all words into the grid and then it'll get stuck. Ideally, you would want to have a way to find a random location amongst those that already work. We don't want to rely on RNG.
Instead of picking a row, column at random and hoping it works, make a generator that yields all locations and orientations that do work for the current word. For this to be correct, it needs to be able to detect when an a grid with a word list is truly impossible. We can use a depth-first search to detect this. The following is pseudo-code on how I would implement it.
A word search puzzle wouldn't be much without words... Puzzle words can be provided at time of creation or added after the fact. Words can be separated by spaces, commas, or new lines and Word-Search-Generator will sort them out for you.
Word-Search-Generator offers some preset difficulty levels. Some levels only allow for words to be placed left-to-right and others allow for right-to-left. You can find all of the preset numeric levels listed in config.py.
By default, the puzzle size (in characters) is determined by the amount of words provided and the difficulty level. Need a puzzle an exact size, override the default by setting puzzle.size. All puzzles are square so size will be the width and height.
This really came in handy for those kid's food menus. I was able to take a folder full of .txt documents with themed words and generate dozens of level 1 Word Search Puzzles at exactly 15 characters in size super fast...
I came across with, to my mind, a really good method to train their vocabulary with so-called word searches. A word search is something like a crossword but in this case you have to find certain words in a jumbled mess of letters. I found some word search worksheets on the web but these were not suitable for the vocabulary I was working on with my learning group. I continued to search for an alternative and found a word search generator. This is a tool with which you can create word search worksheets yourself. On the page atozteacherstuff.com you can generate a word search with only a few steps.
For this you first have to give your puzzle a title (1) and make a list on the vocabulary you want to include into your word search and then fill them into a field separated by commas or put only one vocabulary per line (2). After choosing your words you have a few options to organize your words search. You can change the font size and style and choose between showing the letters in uppercase or lowercase (3). You can decide what the shape of your word search should look at all for example like a star or a square (4). Another option to choose is in what directions your words should appear within the randomized letters. They can run up and down, forward and backwards and diagonal (5). After you have designed your word search you can save the settings in case you want to use the puzzle again (6)!
I designed a word search myself for the last lesson before the Christmas holidays for my learning group at school. For this reason the word search includes words that are connected with winter, Christmas and New Years Eve! Additionally I put a line to each word that should be found within the letters. The students are supposed to translate the words after they have found them!
I really like to use word searches to improve the students vocabulary. Sure, vocabulary learning can not only be done with this method but it is a nice option to work on vocabulary in a more entertaining way and I experienced that the students really like these word searches and are more motivated to learn something!
To add words to the word list just type a new word in the new word input box located in the options section. All words currently in the list are available in the current word list section under the options section New words are not automaticly added to the generated output and you will have to click generate yourself. To remove words from the current list just click the corresponding X.
To generate the word search click the generate button. The algorithm has 1000 attempts to place the word. Words can be placed in the following orientations vertical, horizontal and diagonal. There are options to disable placing words diagonally as well as to disable placing words backwards.
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