In the game "keep talking and nobody explodes" one of the puzzles has you match a limited set of characters in each position to a dictionary of possible words.

In the game "keep talking and nobody explodes" one of the puzzles has you match a limited set of characters in each position to a dictionary of possible words. A task I was having a lot of trouble doing in the limited time provided. I ended up rewriting the dictionary as a prefix tree and including it as a addendum to the manual. It was neat seeing seeing these algorithms work at human scale and how much better it made the process.