A solver for the NYT Spelling Bee game
My household loves the New York Times’ daily word games. Unfortunately, my wife is a lot better at Spelling Bee than I am. This provided the perfect excuse for today’s project.
Pangrams are in bold. Scores are accurate according to the game’s official guide.
The solver is written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, and then wrapped in a trivial Web Component. It runs entirely in-browser, containing the entire list of over 200,000 possible words. This is, in my opinion, the rare sort of project can justify having 3 megabytes of JavaScript. It also means I don’t have to run a server for this, which is priceless.
Note that the official words list is not known, so I’m using a subset of /usr/share/dict/words. There will be false positives in this list.
Full source code is available on GitHub: jelder/bee_solver.