This is a command-line version of scrabble, which can be played by multiple people on the same machine or against an virtually unbeatable computer-controlled opponent or (opponents) which brute forces the best possible each turn.
Python 3.5 or higher. The only nonstandard packages used are colorama and ultrajson, and can be installed just through pip3 install -r requirements.txt
I love scrabble, but I'm continuously disappointed by the quality of online scrabble games. A lot of them are slow, or require you to drag each tile on the board individually, or tell you if a word you're trying to play is in the dictionary which defeats a key part of the game, or have different two letter words than in the actual scrabble dictionary. This project is a command-line version of scrabble which can be played much more quickly than most web versions, and have a robust and reasonably challenging AI opponent (or opponents) to play against.
More than just providing an alternate vector through which to play scrabble, this will be an exercise in a unique brand of game AI, as well as an algorithmic challenge as each player in scrabble has, including invalid options, a minimum of over a million possible moves at each turn, though there can be several billion moves available with certain held tiles and board configurations.
To start the game, navigate to the game directory and run python3 game_manager.py <number of human opponents> <number of computer-controlled opponents>.
At each turn, the user has the following moves.
quit quits the game
skip skips a turn
exchange <LETTERS> exchanges the tiles in the string (here letters) at the expense of a turn.
7 7 R PYTHON plays the word in the direction R for right (or D for down), starting at x, y, coordinates 7, 7
define <WORD> prints out the definition of a word. The English dictionary used is the best JSON dictionary I could find
but is missing some common words.