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THE GAME OF WORD JUMBLE (c) (vers.2.0)
J. Munoz
75564,2721
JUMBLE:
The Jumble (r) word game is very simple. The player is presented with a word whose letters
are "jumbled" up. The object of the game is to "simply" correctly unscramble the
letters to obtain the original word.
For example, the player might be presented with the followed jumbled text:
tca
A good guess might be the word "cat"... and you'd be correct! Here's another word:
lefi
Give up?... the word is "life". Be careful, there are combinations of letters that do spell more
than one legitimate word, but only one of those words is valid when the scrambled letters are
presented. For example, the following letters:
alpm
could represent the word "palm" or the word "lamp". While they are each legitimate words,
only one of the words would be found to be correct by the game at that instant.
PLAYING THE GAME:
Simply use the mouse to select "Word" under the Game menu item. A scrambled set of
letters will be presented in a dialog box. You may then enter your guess into the edit box
presented and then click on the OK button, or press Enter at your keyboard. If you give up...
then click on the "Give Up" box (click OK, or press Enter)... the unscambled word will then be
displayed to you (no cheating allowed!).
To select a new word or if you do not wish to guess, then click on the Cancel button.
To exit from the game, simply select Exit from the Game menu item. If you guess correctly, then a new
word will automatically be selected.
Version 2.0 includes "hints". If you find yourself stumbling over a word, you can request a hint
that might help you in finding the correct word. This is done by clicking on the Hint button
and then selecting either OK or press Enter. For example, in the "alpm" jumbled word above,
had the word been "palm", then the hint could have been "tree"... however if the correct word
was "lamp", then "light" might the hint. [Note: in order to discourage unfair cheating, requesting a
Hint counts as an incorrect guess.]
INSTALLING THE GAME:
The zip file should contain the following files:
jumble.exe This is the JUMBLE game executable
dict Contains the list of words from which JUMBLE selects words to be scrambled
bc40rtl.dll Required dynamic link libs
bwcc.dll
jumble.txt This text
The two dll files (bc40rtl and bwcc) should be copied to the windows\system directory.
The JUMBLE executable (jumble.exe) and the word list (dict) should be copied to any directory
of your choice (but both should be in the same directory). To play the game, simply
double-click on the jumble.exe file... or drag & drop the executable into the program group of
your choice.
That's it!!
Enjoy.... this is freeware, have FUN!
J. Munoz
Note: Beware! The number of possible guesses grows factorially with the number of letters
in the word. This means that while a 3 letter word has only 6 possible combinations (3x2x1=6):
Example:
cta
cat
tac
tca
atc
act
A four letter word has 24 possible combinations... a 5 letter word has 120 combinations, and a
6 letter word has 720 combinations! So, I'm sure you want to know how many combinations
for a 10 letter word, such as "government" ..... 3,628,800!!! Assuming each guess takes about
5 secs, this would represent around 1 year and 8 months working at it for 8 hours/day!
So, just wild guesses could take a rather long time!!
Error/Version Log:
Vers. 1.5 corrected/changed the following from version 1.0:
a. Made call to BWCCRegister() for Borland controls
b. Automatically selected a new word if a correct word was inserted.
c. Kept a count of the number of guesses.
Vers. 1.6
a. selects a new word if "give up"
Vers. 2.0
a. Provides "hints".
b. Keeps score.