ANN Daily Crytoquote

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/22/05 11:07 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> The big problem with the decoder is the size of the dictionary (61,000 
> entries)--much too big. Many of the words you will not recognize.  
> Anyone know of a more reasonable dictionary?

I don't know which dictionary you are using, but my Boggle game uses the 
FRELI word list, which is free and unrestricted for anyone's use. It 
comes in at 557K. I store it as a .gz compressed custom property and 
decompress it into RAM when Boggle opens. This saves a great deal on 
disk size.

FRELI is here:

<http://www.nkuitse.com/freli/>

Since I didn't need the parts of speech, I used a regular expression 
(using BBEdit) to remove those before storing the file. That also 
decreased its size considerably.

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