NYT Spelling Bee Solver

This is a solver for the NYT Spelling Bee game. When you run the program it asks you for the center tile letter and then the other letters one at a time.

How to run

1. Clone this repository
2. Change/modify words.txt if you want to use a different word list
3. Run chmod +x solver.py
4. Run ./solver.py and enter required input
   • Or run ./solver.py -f to output to a text file with the date in the filename
5. Output is sorted with highest points first

Wordlist

For my word list I used a custom wordlist generated from http://app.aspell.net/create using SCOWL with parameters:

• diacritic: strip
• max_size: 80
• max_variant: 1
• special: hacker
• spelling: US

I used a large wordlist that will result in a lot of false positives, but these aren't penalized from my understanding of the game.