veritas-ex-machina

Oh wait, you just want to download the solution? Fine:

• WordRacer Cheater Eclipse Project
• WordRacer Cheater Windows Binary Distribution

Instructions:

1. Download and install cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe (you will need at least bash, sed, xargs, but I would install the recommended basic set).
2. Download and install a Java 1.6 VM: http://java.sun.com. Java 1.5 WILL NOT WORK.
3. Download and unpack the above wrc binary distribution
4. Open a cygwin shell window and cd to where you unpacked the wrc binary distribution.
5. Add your new JVM to your path (”export PATH=<path to java>\bin:$PATH”, e.g. “export PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_02/bin:$PATH”)
6. make sure runwrc.sh, process.sh, djpeg.exe and gocr.exe are executable (”chmod a+x runwrc.sh process.sh djpeh.exe gocr.exe”)
7. execute “./runwrc.sh”
8. A window will popup. You’ll use that to place over the WordRacer grid.
9. Start your wordRacer game.
10. Hide all the windows except for the wordracer game, the cygwin shell and the placement window.
11. Drag the placement window over the wordracer grid is (will be)and hit enter. If you’re looking at a 4×4 grid (round 1) make sure you cover the margins so you capture the whole 6×6 grid in later rounds.
12. When the round has started, hit enter. A list of words will be printed in the window. Words that include a bonus letter are indicated by *.
13. Enter the words manually. Consider mixing up shorter and longer words to make sure you don’t get caught.
14. When the next round starts, hit enter again.
15. When the game is over: GLOAT.

Careful:

1. If you move the window, you’ll have to restart wrc.
2. If your WordRacer game window goes black, resize it using the bottom window handle only. Don’t move the window!
3. The dictionary only has 70000 words, and many of them don’t exist in the wordracer dictionary.com dictionary. Proper names and such.

Credits:

• Jazzy, the Java Spell Checking API
• Wally Flint, who wrote the Ternery Search Tree used to check prefixes.
• The makers of gocr and djpeg, and those who compiled it for Windows.
• Mark, who solved the brute force dictionary slowness problem.