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Show HN: My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
- sgk284 15y agoThis is just a quick project I threw together this Saturday. It simply finds all possible words that meet the criteria you specify and ranks them according to their English frequency.
- Gigablah 15y agoI'm surprised that domain name was available :)
- chime 15y agoWhich wordlist/dictionary are you using? I use WordNet for my word finding app: http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/ http://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/ FYI, the search is broken right now, probably due to HN traffic. I get the error: Internal Server Error.
- mopatches 15y agoCool - where are you sourcing the candidate words?
- sgk284 15y agoI used the frequency lists from Wikitionary for searching an ranking. They've got the 40,000 most frequent words.
- mgevans 15y agoThe client downloads the current word list from this URL: http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv I've been meaning to see if I can run a proxy and substitute my own words. EDIT: I personally use wordplay (http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/index.html http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/...) with the -lx flags on this file when I'm stumped
- mopatches 15y agoNice! Steve - can you use this word list instead? (http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv http://static.iminlikewithyou.com/drawsomething/wordlist.csv)
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- sgk284 15y agoYep, the site includes that word list now :)
- wizzard 15y agoWow, great find. Obviously using the actual list would be a lot more helpful since they often combine multiple words into one ("lavalamp", "musicbox") and use a lot of very current pop culture references ("lin", "ladygaga"). Definitely a unique dictionary.
- sgk284 15y agoWow thanks for the link to the csv. I just pushed a new version that uses that list!
- bvdbijl 15y agoYou can use a proxy and substitute your words. Also take in mind that the format is <word>,<score (1,2,3)>,<premium word or not (0 or 1)>
- madzito 15y agonice.. so you put a limit on the number of letters, and shuffle the letters in all possible combinations searching your wictionary. Interesting.
- sgk284 15y agoThanks :) I also order the results based on frequency and I just pushed an update to the site that uses the official word list of "Draw Something".
- gautaml 15y ago500 Server error. That went well.
- F_J_H 15y agoThere's no need for that. Why do you feel you need to be sarcastic and rude?
- zalew 15y agohttp://www.omghalp.com/?length=6&char=b&char=a&char=t&char=&char=&char=&char=&char=&char=&char=&char=&char= http://www.omghalp.com/?length=6&char=b&char=a&c... indeed
- roryokane 15y agoYes, it turns out that the game gives you a selection of letters, like Scrabble, to fill in all the text fields shown. You get the 500 error if you leave the text fields blank. It would be nice if the site gave a JavaScript alert instead of submitting the form with invalid input.
- sgk284 15y agoUnfortunately, that was a bug. If the number of characters you provided was less than the length of the word you gave, the server 500'd. Oops! Sorry about that, the link should be fixed now!
- roryokane 15y agoIt would be nice if you made the text "Draw Something" in the subtitle link to the app. I didn't know what Draw Something was, but clicked the link anyway, assuming I could figure it out by analogy to hangman and Pictionary by looking at your site's interface. I couldn't; I had to look it up. Possible link destinations: http://omgpop.com/drawsomething http://omgpop.com/drawsomething http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-something-free/id488628250?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-something-free/id4886282...
- sgk284 15y agoThanks for the suggestion! Just deployed a new version that links to their page.
- naush 15y agoFunny, I wrote a script for my girlfriend a week ago too. I just grabbed my word list from /usr/share/dict/words though. https://gist.github.com/2069501 https://gist.github.com/2069501
- naush 15y agoUpdate: use the official word list from DrawSomething...
- taofu 15y agoWhy "co-founders"? Surely you mean co-players
- sgk284 15y agoHeh, it was a jab at my co-founders.
- kirillzubovsky 15y agoSteve, "Scoutzie" is not a word! ugh :) It's good to see you guys are still having fun!
- sgk284 15y agoHaha, thanks Kirill :) Everyday you gotta have fun!
- snguyen 15y agoI've actually been using this for awhile: http://www.justin.my/draw-something-words/ http://www.justin.my/draw-something-words/
- hellokhoaphan 15y agoReal awesome tool, great job Steve. On a side note though, anyone who seriously uses this tool to play 'Draw Something' is missing out on the concept of the game, which is to use your creativity to draw up something that users can then guess. If you're using a tool to help you guess a word the correct word, then you're doing the "drawer" a disservice by basically saying to them that their drawing is good enough, when it really isn't... seeing as you couldn't guess what it was. It's like funding a start up that you know is destined to fail and you keep telling them to keep on keeping on with the doomed idea; or in this case, their crappy drawings that you can't guess!
- wizzard 15y agoWhile I agree with you in spirit, I just want to point out that it's not always the drawer's fault that you don't recognize a pop culture reference ("katniss") or something a bit obscure ("golem"). Also, you might have too much riding on the game if you can use startup funding as an analogy!
- tylermenezes 15y agoI think you're sort of missing the point of the game, which is to be a game. If you're cheating anyone, it's yourself. Cheating (unless you're developing the cheat yourself) is almost never fun for more than 3 minutes.
- shinji97 15y agoyou should consider allowing users to input all the letters into one single input box, might just a little bit less effort for the users =)
- jurre 15y agoYou can just keep typing while you're in the first text box :)
- sgk284 15y agoI'm glad you noticed that! I added it as a convenience for myself when testing it... and wasn't sure if anyone else would discover it :)
- jurre 15y agoWould be even nicer if the cursor also moved!
- sgk284 15y agoYeah, I played around with that. On the iPhone they disable allowing you to programmatically focus input fields in Safari (from what I could tell). So rather then spend time on a work around, since this was just a fun side project, I figured I'll ship it as is.
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- keithpeter 15y agoI tried the word 'parallelogram'. The web page keeps changing 13 letters to 12 letters in the number of letters box then saying it can't find a word. I've never heard of 'draw something' as a game before so perhaps I'm using a word that isn't allowed or something. Stuff like this is handy in teaching especially if it works on a mobile phone (blackberry for teenagers, iPhone for colleagues :-)
- sgk284 15y agoHey, thanks for the feedback. You can only specify 12 letters, so it doesn't make sense to search for a 13 letter word. Re: teaching, I'll clean up the code a bit and put it up on github. There isn't anything too novel in there though.
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- sgk284 15y agoHere ya go: https://github.com/stevekrenzel/omghalp https://github.com/stevekrenzel/omghalp
- mayanksinghal 15y agoIs this is an acceptable convention in US: http://omgpop.com/drawsomething http://omgpop.com/drawsomething says that the app is available at .99 cents (Get it now: .99 cents)?
- cdawzrd 15y agoRelated: Verizon Math http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/ http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
- superchink 15y agoNo, that's definitely wrong. It's a common error, though, and in a lot of cases people don't even notice (especially when it's clear that it doesn't sell for part of a cent).
- tobiasbischoff 15y agotook the best methods from this comments here and put the in an ios app: CheatSomething! is free in the AppStore: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=513666674&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...