albertcrowley/boggle

command line boggle

boggle's Issues

Games should be time limited

User Story:
As a player, I would like my game to be limited to a (configurable) 60 second timer.

Acceptance Criteria:

• The timer should start when the board is first shown
• The timer should interrupt the user input and end the game when it expires
• After each word is entered, the remaining time should be displayed to the player
• If possible, show the timer countdown while the player is entering new words

Flag invalid words immediately after entry

User story:
As a player, I would like to be alerted immediately after entering an invalid word.

Acceptance criteria:

• After submitting an incorrect word, the player should be shown a message saying the word was incorrect.
• If possible, the message should be shown in red.

Calculate single game statistics

User Story
As a player, I would like to see some statistics about my game

Acceptance Criteria:

• Statistics shown should not rely on information from previous games
• Statistics should be shown at the end of the game
• Suggested statistics:
  • Words entered per minute
  • Percent of all possible words found
  • Average length of words entered
  • Max length word

Calculate multi-game statistics

User Story:
As a player, I would like to see statistics from my current game compared against averages, minimums, and maximums of previous games.

Acceptance Criteria:

• multi-game statistics should be shown after the game is completed
• Possible statistics might be
• Number of words entered vs. average
• Avg length of words vs. cumulative average word length
• Percentile rank of player's score this game when compared to all previous games

Show possible spelling errors for incorrect words

User Story:
As a player, I would like and option to be shown possible corrected spellings when entering a word that is not in the dictionary.

Acceptance Criteria:

• If possible, the spell check feature should be optionally enabled/disabled by the user.
• Immediately after entering a word that is not in the dictionary, show the user 'nearby' words that are in the dictionary.
• Use the PyEnchant module (http://pythonhosted.org/pyenchant/) or a similar module.

Add high score tracking

User Story:
As a user I would like Boggle to save a list of the top ten scores.

Acceptance Criteria:

• The top 10 highest scores should be saved in a history file
• Each score should include the name of the player and date/time the game was played
• When a game is complete, if the current user has scored higher than the previous 10th best score ask for their name
• The history file should be stored in JSON formal