Word chain is a word game where the next word has to start with the last letter of the previous word. With this puzzle maker you can create a closed exercise for your kids. You will fill the puzzle with the words and when you print the puzzle the letter the start and end letters of the words are not printed. You can use the word finder of the app to find valid words for the puzzle.
How to create a puzzle:
1. Choose the lengths of the words. You can opt for a fixed length or vary. When you choose for a fixed length, all the words in the puzzle must have this length. When vary is used, than the length is variable for the words.
2. Choose chain size. You can choose between 1 and 2. This determines if the last letter is the start letter of the next word or the last 2 letter will be the first 2 letters of the next word.
3. Enter the words. You can just type the word and press enter or click on the ‘search word’ button behind the word.
a. When you press enter, the app will try to find words that you can use for the next word.
b. When you press on the search button, the app will use the letters that are already typed for the words. It will use the letters in front of the cursor to find new words.
c. The app will only randomly show 100 words when searching for words. In case you cannot find a good word, press again on the search button. It will show different words, in case there are more than 100 available words.
4. The letters in the yellow fields in the puzzle will not be printed in the pdf file. These are the letters that have to be found.
Create your word chain puzzle
Length of words
Size of the chain
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Shiritori is a popular Japanese game in which players have to think of a word beginning with the final letter of the previous word.
In groups of two, players can improve their vocabulary and spelling by creating a long word chain.
If you can’t think of any more connecting words, then you lose the game. But in most cases, students can think of words. And this is when the word chain gets extremely long.
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How to start Wordle Tournament
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To add the first word, enter it in the first field. If the word is playable it will turn green, if not it will turn red.
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You will not be able to create a game with a word that is not in our dictionary. There are most of the words, but there are no bad and invented ones.
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Then you can enter the next word in the box below. And so on up to 10 words.
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You can also use a random word generator if you are creating a game in which you will participate yourself. Click on Random and then select the length of the word. The word will be hidden by a special character. Each click on the number button will update the word.
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After completing the input of all words, click on the button, after which the tournament will be created and a link to it will be copied to the clipboard. Now you just need to paste the link and send it to all participants.
Fast and sharp word finder for fun and education
Word Morph — Interactive
The Word Morph game is about building word chains by changing one letter at a time Enter a word to start a new chain. |
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Xworder provides word search tools designed to help you solve and compose crosswords Xworder features: Find words if you know some of the letters that it contains («w??d» — «word», «wood»).
Find words that can be built from the given set of letters («scrabble» — «laser»,
Find words and word combinations by rearranging all letters from the given set («anagram»
A fun game of building word chains by changing one letter at a time («break — bread
Switching between the Full and Limited word lists makes it easier to find what you
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word-chain
A Python tool for generating text using Markov chains
Files
WordChain.py
Contains Python classes for analyzing text files and generating text
Examples of functions:
# creating a markov chain of words of degree d from string txt
chain = WordChain()
chain.get_words(txt, d)
# generating text from a WordChain object
chain.generate_text()
# saving a WordChain object at location
chain.pickle(location) # using pickle
chain.to_csv(location) # saving as txt file
# loading a WordChain object
chain.unpickle(location) # using pickle
chain.from_csv(location) # loading from txt file
Markov Chain Creator
Script for creating a Markov chain from text files
Markov Chain Tester
Script for testing the text generated from a Markov chain created using the Markoc Chain Creator
Text Generator App
Sample application to show the results of text generation using Markov chains. Includes generators for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Shakespeare, and George R.R. Martin. Can also choose between 1st order and 2nd order Markov chains for Trump, Clinton, and Shakespeare.
More on how to use word-chain
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Text files should be converted into a single line string before passing into get_words() or get_letters().
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You may need to mess with the encoding of the input text or remove weird things like emojiis. Feel free to find a way around this though.
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Large corpuses are required in order to generate unique text. The size required increases as the author’s text becomes more varied and as you increase the Markov Chain degree. The Trump text file included contains around 170,000 words and I find that 2nd degree markov chains prodced with it generate unique text (in other words, googling the output yields no results). However the Shakespeare file only contains around 20,000 words. Text generated using this file usually consists of whole sentences taken from different works.
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The «csv» files you can create consists of two main parts. The first line consists of a Markov Chain’s «starters». For now capitalWords=starters. The rest of the file consists of three columns separated by | _ |. The columns contain
- A string
- A list of that string’s «followers»
- A list of probabilities corresponding to the «followers»
The elements in the list of «followers» and probabilities are separated by |
Possible FAQs
How long does it take to create a Markov Chain?
- Not that long. Creating a Markov Chain from the ~2mil word RRMartin example takes around 13 seconds. Generating one from the ~170,000 word TrumpSpeeches.txt file takes just under 1s. I will also keep looking for ways to increase efficiency.
Are there advantages or disadvantages between the different ways of saving a WordChain object?
- The .txt files are smaller than their corresponding pickle files. I will post more when I can better quantify this difference as well as attest to any differences in loading or saving speed. My initial reason for creating the .txt file method was to allow for the possibility of loading Markov Chains generating using word-chain into other programming languages.
Things that need work
- Formatting
- Speed
- Larger Datasets
- Add saving to text file to LetterChain