[OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

[Shikhar]

> Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal 
> with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact 
> glyphs that are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to 
> have every single one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we 
> use (vowel+consonant)
>  is 36 * 12 + c where c > 0, for some "extra characters."
>
> To illustrate what I am saying: in a crossword puzzle that has the 
> word होली, you can just use other words that utilize हो but not any of 
> the other vowel conjugates of ह, ie हा हि ही हु हू हो हौ हे है हं ह: . In 
> scrabble, you'd need to provide all of these as tiles that one could 
> use. The set of words in crossword puzzles is limited, and therefore 
> the set of glyphs used, much smaller than the number I listed above.
>
> And there is still the issue of half letters. ie. words like कुर्ता (क  ु 
> र् त ा) चिन्ह (ि  च  न् ह  or  च  ि  न् ह )?
>
> -prabhas
An idea would be to provide the standard set of letters and for each of 
them also allow the user to select a vowel conjugate or make it a 
half-letter. It seems reasonable to me.

Shikhar