jpbrickhouse / hexagon-spelling

Test your spelling skills at a game inspired by, but not affiliated with, the New York Times "Spelling Bee": https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

Hexagon Spelling

Deployed Website:

https://hexagon-spelling.herokuapp.com/

DESCRIPTION

A game inspired by, but not affiliated with, the New York Times "Spelling Bee": https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee.

I reverse engineered the gameplay logic and built a responsive page and dynamic user interface.

Hexagon Spelling is a MERN stack application (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) deployed on Heroku.

SCREENSHOTS

Gameplay

Rules

About

Contact

INSTALLATION

• No installation is required, as the user can simply visit the deployed application link: https://hexagon-spelling.herokuapp.com/
• However, if the user wishes to investigate the code locally, the following steps should be performed:
  • Clone the repo for use on your local machine
  • Use the command line to locate the cloned repo and make it your current directory
  • Type npm install in the command line; this will install the necessary node module packages and dependencies

USAGE

• To run the application locally...
  • Use the command line to locate the cloned repo and make it your current directory
  • Simply type npm start in the command line
  • This will open a localhost connection on your default browser, wherein the React application will run
• To run the application online, please vist the deployed link: https://hexagon-spelling.herokuapp.com/
• Regarding the rules of Hexagon Spelling, please see the rules, located here: https://hexagon-spelling.herokuapp.com/rules
• Happy spelling!

LICENSE

License: MIT License
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

CONTRIBUTING

Reverse engineered by yours truly: https://github.com/JPBrickhouse

Original game / inspiration: https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

Solution sets – which were essential to my efforts in building the gameplay logic – were sourced from this website: https://www.shunn.net/bee/