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PHP\/Javascript Can You See Any Words Game Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you like word games? Today’s game takes 81 randomly generated letters in a 9×9 grid and asks you to make as many words from its letters as you can that are unique and 3 or more characters long which read forwards or backwards going across, down, or diagonally … we’re going to call the game “Can You See Any Words?”<\/i> … and you score a point for each letter used in your list of valid words generated as a result. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to learn English vocabulary.<\/p>\n

Programmers often use Linux dictionary files<\/a> as a means to get a word list, and that list could be in any language, and for ours it is English, so to make it for another language used in canyouseeanywords.php<\/a> you’d need a Linux dictionary arrangement (on your web server) with a different language base.<\/p>\n

This game<\/a> has two parts to it for PHP and Javascript to respectively get a word to use and arrange the user interaction.<\/p>\n

Hopefully you can figure the rules when you click the picture above for a live run<\/a>. As for yesterday’s game (added belatedly) there is a link to Email Your Friends that has a body link exactly simulating your current state of play, and there is a Chat Room button link. You can chat to the button before you click it, if you are feeling friendly.<\/p>\n

Thank you to The Free Dictionary<\/a> for its great online presence as a dictionary resource, for the functionality to optionally explain a word’s dictionary meaning. The image map “click parts of the picture” vocabulary ESL tutorials<\/a> at this blog use the same resource to explain dictionary information about clicked on “things”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, see how you go with this game of observational skills!<\/p>\n

The webpage here<\/a> helped a lot, so, thanks.<\/p>\n

Here is a link to some downloadable PHP (with Javascript) programming code you could rename to canyouseeanywords.php<\/a><\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n