Guess - Solve Crossword Puzzles and Hangman

Search for any English word by using a . to take the place of an actual letter. Downloadable and faster versions below.

Windows Installer - guess-1.0-win32.exe (2846k) | Installation Instructions
Linux/BSD Source Install - guess-1.0.tar.gz (521k) | Installation Instructions

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Guess can fill in the blanks on a word and search for all possible matches using a . to take the place of a letter.

Search: p.n

pan
pen
pin
pun
pon

Guess will search through 144,397 words in the English language in order to find all of the matches quickly. Thousands of words can be matched in under a second. All searches are case insensitive as well.

Guess makes solving crossword puzzles or hangman easy. Need a 7 letter word that starts with S and ends in N? Your search is as simple as s.....n

Download guess-1.0-win32.exe (2846k) and run the installer. The installer will create a shortcut on your desktop, along with all the neccessary components such as GTK+ for displaying the graphics. The installation of GTK+ will only include the .dll's necessary for this application to run.

Guess will create an icon on the desktop for quick access. Double click it anytime you want and search away.

If you would like to replace or add to the list of words, you can do so at C:\Program Files\Guess\wordlist.txt

Download guess-1.0.tar.gz (521k). In order to compile this application, you will need GCC, GTK+ 2, and pkg-config.

Compile by using the following commands in the directory that gpg_gui-current.tar.gz was saved to:

tar xvfz guess-1.0.tar.gz
cd guess-1.0/
./configure
make install clean

Guess will be installed to /usr/local/bin/guess or whatever prefix you specified.

If you would like to replace or add to the list of words, you can do so at /usr/local/share/guess/wordlist.txt or /usr/share/guess/wordlist.txt depending on where you installed it by default.

You can run this front end at any time by creating a shortcut to it on your desktop or running it from the command line as:

guess

What i would like to see in this program is the ability to load your own dictionaries but other than that this is a well made application :)

10-23-2008

I should really rephrase that...
I have have a large (9.74GB) dictionary spilt into different files and it would be nice to use said dictionary.
As I said before other than that this application is most defiantly well made.

10-23-2008

The file that contains the dictionary is called wordlist.txt

It should be located inside the Programs File folder for Windows, you can replace that and it will use that dictionary instead. I'll look into having a more straight-forward way for your own dictionary though.

10-23-2008