Random guess button

[Oreolek]

Press the button to make a totally random guess!
(Not dictionary-based, sadly - performance problems. Dictionary is too big to filter for a specific word length.)

[SystemDisc]

Final comment: Won't this just populate the line with pseudo-random characters? I think it would be more useful to populate the line with a random word from the wordlist - perhaps only enabled in settings as a handicap option.

[Oreolek]

Yeah it's more of a discussion than a feature. Dictionary is a performance problem.

hello-wordl's dictionary has to support all guesses from 4 to 11 letters long. The chance to get a word of a specific length in 100 random draws is not guaranteed. Filtering the whole array takes too long. So we'll have to optimize the whole dictionary format just to draw something better than a pile of letters.

[SystemDisc]

Why not just call randomTarget(currentWordLength) to get an acceptable random word?

[SystemDisc]

This is what I mean: https://github.com/Oreolek/hello-wordl/pull/1/files

[Oreolek]

Thank you, that's brilliant!

[SystemDisc]

Love this feature! @lynn perhaps you could make this toggle-able under settings if you don't want it available by default?