Cli tool to solve and find quartiles (apple news+ new game)
You can make a screenshot and use iphone text extraction to copy paste the list of fragments (or type it)
From source
go install github.com/ldemailly/quartiles@latest
Or see the numerous binaries in https://github.com/ldemailly/quartiles/releases
Or docker fortio/quartiles:latest
Or brew brew install fortio/tap/quartiles
(I manage the fortio org and usually put everything there but this one is completely unrelated outside of it's usage of https://pkg.go.dev/fortio.org/sets#Tuplets so for now it is hosted here in ldemailly yet uses fortio's org for docker and brew)
Make a screenshot, select the word fragments, paste to textedit, convert to plain text, paste to quartiles
Use -hints to only get the start of the answers.
Example:
$ docker run -ti fortio/quartiles:latest "nder
nt
sti
bi
lo
thu
al
con
ies
VO
mon
ba
tue
rd
fri
lit
SW
ck
wed
gam
"
16:49:38.367 [INF] Words in dictionary : 132735
16:49:38.367 [INF] Looking at fragments:
lb mac ash pa
tri ns ar arch
ect fl el oo
bu ora al tes
pre dic tab le
16:49:38.367 [INF] Checking 2 parts combinations:
al-ar : alar
bu-lb : bulb
bu-ns : buns
el-ect : elect
fl-ash : flash
fl-ora : flora
le-al : leal
le-ash : leash
le-ns : lens
mac-le : macle
ora-tes : orates
pa-le : pale
pa-ns : pans
pa-tes : pates
tab-le : table
tab-oo : taboo
tri-al : trial
16:49:38.367 [INF] Checking 3 parts combinations:
bu-lb-ar : bulbar
le-ar-ns : learns
pa-tri-arch : patriarch
pre-tri-al : pretrial
tes-tab-le : testable
tri-bu-tes : tributes
16:49:38.370 [INF] Checking 4 parts combinations:
el-ect-ora-tes : electorates
fl-ash-bu-lb : flashbulb
mac-ar-oo-ns : macaroons
pa-tri-arch-al : patriarchal
pre-dic-tab-le : predictable
or when using -hints only:
20:48:09.648 [INF] Words in dictionary : 132446
20:48:09.648 [INF] Looking at fragments:
lb mac ash pa
tri ns ar arch
ect fl el oo
bu ora al tes
pre dic tab le
20:48:09.648 [INF] Checking 2 parts combinations:
al-* : al__
bu-* : bu__
bu-* : bu__
el-* : el___
fl-* : fl___
fl-* : fl___
le-* : le__
le-* : le___
le-* : le__
mac-* : mac__
ora-* : ora___
pa-* : pa__
pa-* : pa__
pa-* : pa___
tab-* : tab__
tab-* : tab__
tri-* : tri__
20:48:09.648 [INF] Checking 3 parts combinations:
bu-*-* : bu____
le-*-* : le____
pa-*-* : pa_______
pre-*-* : pre_____
tes-*-* : tes_____
tri-*-* : tri_____
20:48:09.651 [INF] Checking 4 parts combinations:
el-*-*-* : el_________
fl-*-*-* : fl_______
mac-*-*-* : mac______
pa-*-*-* : pa_________
pre-*-*-* : pre________
quartiles 0.2.0 usage:
quartiles [flags] word fragments...
Finds all words in dictionary that can be made from the given fragments
or 1 of the special arguments
quartiles {help|envhelp|version|buildinfo}
flags:
-4 Only find the 4-part words
-dict path
Dictionary file path to use, instead of default embedded one
-hints
Only show the first segment of the answers (hints only mode)
The words used in Dockerfile is from Ubuntu's
apt install wamerican-large american-english-large words-large
removing 's and all caps acronyms and non ascii words
gnugrep -v -E -e "^[A-Z]+s?$" -e '[^a-zA-Z]' < /usr/share/dict/american-english-large > words