WordLink

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  Start of a puzzle

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  Puzzle in the middle of being solved

Inspiration

This project was inspired by simple daily word games like Wordle.

What it does

WordLink is a web game that releases a new puzzle daily. The goal of the puzzle is to get from the starting word to the target word in the least amount of steps possible. Each "step" must be a change in a single letter in the previous step that still results in a valid word. For example, take the puzzle where the starting word is "gear" and the target is "flat." The best solution is: gear -> fear -> feat -> flat There are many possible ways to get to this solution. The goal is to simply get there in the least number of steps. The next day, you can view the best solution and how the best player scored.

How we built it

This project was built with Angular and Java Spring.

What's next for WordLink

This is a good proof-of-concept but still needs some improvement to be a viable online game. For starters the UI can use various improvements (UI design is not my strong suit). This can also be hooked up to a database to save/load user game data and previous puzzles.

Built With

• angular.js
• java
• spring