Name: Anonymous 2008-04-27 1:15
...with perl. I am so proud.
$_ considered harmful.my $max_gs = shift;
push '/usr/share/dict/words' unless @ARGV;
die "Dict file \"$dict\" does not exist." unless (-e) for @ARGV;
my @words;
s/[^ &a-z-]//g and length > 8 and push @words, chomp lc while <>;
die 'No words in dict.' unless @words;
my $word = $words(rand @words);
$max_gs ||= length $word;
do {
print "Guess: ";
chomp ($g = lc <>);
redo if $g !~ /^[a-z]$/ || $r_gs . $w_gs =~ /$g/;
for ("$word\n") {
(/$g/ ? $r_gs : $w_gs) .= $g;
${($r_gs, $w_gs)[!/$g/]} .= $g;
s/[^ &$r_gs-]/_/g
print length $w_gs, "/$max_gs\t";
print;
print "\nLIFE!\n" and exit if /^$word$/;
}
} while (length $w_gw >= $max_gs);
print "\nDEATH!\n";
print "The word was $word\n";