Play a Scratch version of the New York Times' spelling bee game! Rules: - Come up with as many words as you can using the letters in the circles. - You MUST use the letter in the center circle. - Words must be at least 4 letters long. - Letters CAN be used multiple times if desired. - You'll get 1 point for each 4-letter word. For each longer word, you'll get 1 point for each letter in the word. If you use all seven different letters, you'll get an extra 7 points. See what you can score - it's not easy! (Two puzzles included in this project for now.)
Credit to https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee for the puzzles and solutions, this is one of my favorite puzzle games. And when I learned from @paulinah this morning that you can import data into a list, I immediately thought of importing answers to these puzzles. (Separately, knowing that this was possible would have made my Day 1 Getting Unstuck project much easier!) Tips: * I learned from @karenb today that the "ask __ and wait" block is allowed to contain nothing in the blank, if you want a prompt for the user to type without asking a question first. * I was looking for a way to stop a forever loop from outside of the loop, and didn't see anything immediately in the block library. Turns out, the "stop all" block lets you change the dropdown from "stop all" to "stop other scripts in sprite" which is exactly what I needed to stop a forever loop from a different script. Credits: NYTimes for the puzzle. https://flight-of-the-bumblebee.mp3quack.com/ for the music.
