Word Dig


a word game in Perl


Word Dig is form of word play my wife and I discovered/invented/something while we were driving around on a vacation. The rules are simple -
one person starts by naming a word (and using it in a sentence)
the next person must then name a word beginning with the last letter of the previous word, and of the same length (plus or minus one letter).
play continues until one person gives up (or both decide to draw).
words may not be repeated

So, what does this have to do with free software? Games::WordDig is a perl module implementing the guts of Word Dig, and distributed with various front-ends to play the game. (Er- at least it will be, once it is completed).

Games::WordDig (or just WordDig) is currently moving toward a 0.2.5 release, and a 0.2.1 tarball should be making an appearance soon. Until then (and after that as well), please make use of the web/cvs interface.

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