#pyngman ###An optimal hangman-guessing python script, by Tom Medley
##Usage
- Get a Dictionary
- Run
python pyngman.py -init path-to-dict.zip - Run
python pyngman.py -state ..e..y estry, where ..e..y is the state of the game, and estry are the letters you've already used. pyngman will tell you what your optimal next move is.
##Dictionaries
pyngman is designed to work with a .zip dictionary file, such as the ones
available for Open Office. I have tested the script with their en-GB dictionary.
The script will parse the dictionary into a complete list of words, removing words deemed 'invalid' for hangman, such as those containing apostrophes or dashes.
##Do More
Included is a simple tool for playing Hangman games - hangman.py. hangman.py
requires pyngman to have been initialized before it works. It can be used with
test.py to run a test against the dictionary to see what pyngman's odds are of
winning. In my testing this has been pretty good, ~500 losses per 80k words, or
a failure rate of 0.000625%.
##License
pyngman was created by Tom Medley, and is released under the GNU GPL v3.0. It comes with no warranty.