WordWalk Puzzles

 Yesterday we implemented a new version of WordWalk , eliminating the drag-and-drop approach in favor of point-and-click.   We have also placed all the candidate letters in a table row above the graph, so now there are no longer any floating letters that have to be dragged and dropped. We have also included the maximum possible score (which varies with each puzzle) so that you can compare your score against the best possible. To help understand how this works, let take a look at the kid's puzzle step by step. Here's the initial set up. Note that there 395 points possible. First we try to spell out "BEER" by selecting the B in the table: Then we select the B in the graph, which gets highlighted in yellow, and the yellow/red coloring for the B in the table reverts to white/black: Since the B is a correct first letter for either of the subwords, it remains yellow/black until the subword is completed.  Since we are trying for "BEER", the next letter is E: Placin...

Today's German puzzle is tough, but you can logically eliminate some stuff by just looking at the arrows and the subwords, before even trying to place a subword. Doing that led me to try the subword 'HIER' first. Das heutige deutsche Puzzle ist schwierig, aber Sie können einige Dinge logischerweise eliminieren, indem Sie sich nur die Pfeile und die Teilwörter ansehen, bevor Sie überhaupt versuchen, ein Teilwort zu platzieren. Das führte dazu, dass ich zuerst das Teilwort „HIER“ versuchte.  

  Daily WordWalk Puzzles 9/24/2022: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

The parameters I use in generating the WordWalk puzzles are the following: 1)  The length of the rootword (i.e., the number of letters in the rootword) 2)  The number of subwords to use 3)  The minimum length of each    The goal for setting these parameters is to ensure that the resulting puzzle is not too hard and not too easy. If there are too many subwords, the chances are good that all the letters and all the arrows will already be present in the subwords, thus making the puzzle too hard, because there will be no unused arrows to hint at those used in the rootword.   If the number of subwords is too low, most of the arrows will be used up only by the rootword, making it almost a pure guessing game;  then the game is too hard and not too interesting.   The game is most interesting, I think, when you have to do some logical reasoning by looking at the unused arrows and eliminating some of the possibilities.  The unused arrows prov...

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!

  Daily WordWalk Puzzles: English Spanish German Kids Yesterday's words can be found at the website. Enjoy!