I had this idea a while back and made a puzzlegame for Android and iOs that does basically this.
The idea is to create puzzles on ANY subject that contain words relating to that subject.
- let user type, search wikipedia for articles starting with that text
- grab selected article, find out words in it that are links to other articles (they are probably related)
- generate a puzzle
I also do random placement, but I also add a score to the final puzzle, taking into account spread in vertical/horizontal/diagonal words. Then I just create as many random puzzles as I can in 4 seconds and take 'the best'.
I had this idea a while back and made a puzzlegame for Android and iOs that does basically this.
The idea is to create puzzles on ANY subject that contain words relating to that subject.
- let user type, search wikipedia for articles starting with that text
- grab selected article, find out words in it that are links to other articles (they are probably related)
- generate a puzzle
I also do random placement, but I also add a score to the final puzzle, taking into account spread in vertical/horizontal/diagonal words. Then I just create as many random puzzles as I can in 4 seconds and take 'the best'.
More detailed writeup here: http://miscellany.codestare.com/WordsearchPlus/
Finished products: iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/word-search-plus-word-puzzle... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codestare....