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- Welcome to Wordy, a text-based educational word construction game. The
- object is to make as many words as possible from the given letter set within
- the alloted three minute time limit. Words must be constructible from the
- letter set displayed, may not be duplicate words (big penalty), and must be
- contained in the 99,000+ word dictionary contained in the program. Words are
- checked "on the fly" immediately as entered, then scored and displayed.
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- After pressing a key at the opening screen, the participant advances to the
- Play Screen. The display now shows four windows. The small window on the
- upper left keeps track of time left in the round of play. The middle window
- on the left displays player status - whether the last word played was valid,
- the score for the last played word, and the total score. The bottom window
- on the left is the Word Entry window, into which the player enters each word
- constructed [followed by the ENTER key, of course]. The large window on the
- right is the Word Display window, showing the valid words played, numbered
- in sequence. After the 12th displayed word the window scrolls, making it
- necessary to remember previously entered words to avoid the (big) duplicate
- word penalty. At the end of the three minute time limit, the round ends and
- the summary screen shows the time / date, letter set, the final score, and a
- list of the valid words entered. The round may be ended before the three
- minutes elapse by simply pressing ENTER without typing a word.
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- Valid words are scored as follows.
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- 1 or 2 letter words = -5 points.
- [Trivial short words get penalized.]
- 3 letter words = 1 point.
- 4 letter words = 3 points.
- 5 letter words = 6 points.
- 6 letter words = 15 points.
- 7 letter words = 35 points.
- 8 letter words = 100 points.
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- [Words with 9 or more letters are not supported in this version of WORDY.]
- Additionally, for each word after the eighteenth, there is an extra 2-point
- per word bonus to compensate the player for remembering previously entered
- words that had scrolled out of the Word Display window.
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- The words entered by the player are immediately tested for:
- a) constructibility from the letter set in use,
- b) duplication of a previously entered word,
- c) "validity" (being in the word game dictionary).
- A non-constructible word carries a 10-point penalty, a duplicate word a
- hefty 50-point jolt, and a word not in the dictionary only a 5-point
- deduction from the running score.
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- OPTIONS:
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- By simply typing WORDY, the player receives a set of 12 letters chosen at
- random.
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- By typing WORDY followed by a number between 0 and 65536, the player
- gets a repeatable random set of 12 letters (for example WORDY 27254 uses the
- letter set <rsrrlbmejeoe> each time). This option is for competitive play,
- as each player receives the same letters. The players awaiting their turns
- are not allowed to peek, of course. Note that it is necessary to leave a
- space between WORDY and the number.
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- By typing WORDY followed by a set of letters (example: WORDY ABCDEFGHIJKL),
- the player gets the letter set thus chosen. This option also lends itself to
- competitive play.
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- IMPORTANT NOTES:
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- WORDY.EXE is for color monitors (CGA, EGA, VGA, etc.) only. If you have a
- color monitor, you can safely delete WORDYM.EXE.
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- WORDYM.EXE is for monochrome (and Hercules tm) monitors. If you have a
- monochrome system, delete WORDY.EXE and REName WORDYM.EXE WORDY.EXE.
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- The file WORD.LST must be in the same subdirectory as WORDY.EXE, otherwise
- the game will not work properly.
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- 500 or so points in a round is considered a particularly good score. If you
- manage to break 1000 on a randomly chosen letter set, send me a post card.
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- This program has been tested using an 8088-based XT system with a monochrome
- monitor (using WORDYM), and an 80386-SX system with a VGA monitor.
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- WORDY is *not* Windows (tm) compatible. Windows (tm) steals Interrupt 0x1c,
- and is in general a system resources hog, and WORDY cannot function in such a
- hostile environment. If you run Windows (tm), exit to the DOS prompt, and
- then run WORDY.
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- [Windows (tm) is a copyright of the Microsoft Corp.]
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- M\Cooper
- 3425 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
- Grantsville, MD 21536
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- email: thegrendel@aol.com
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- A modest $2.00 contribution registers the entire WORDY package with all its
- word list and pattern matching utilities.
-