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

[Prabhas Pokharel]

even better would be two sets of tiles that can be "superimposed," one for
the vowel (or half-letter) part and one for the consonant part.
Sorry thought of this too late, I was thinking too much along
physical-scrabble lines before.

-p

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Shikhar <shikhar at schmizz.net> wrote:

>
>  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
>
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