boggle-telegram-bot

How it works

Dark magic, Python 🐍, and the python_telegram_bot library.
This bot allows potentially infinite players to play Boggle at the same time, while keeping the social distance required in these trying times.

Some cool (🆒!) features:

• automatic word validation: if a word's not possible to make, the bot will tell you
• automatic detection for re-sent words and words that are too short
• integrated check for words in common with other players
• personal and group statistics

This bot also has persistency, so that it can save all your stats to a database that will survive at least a restart (but I can't promise anything in case of a zombie apocalypse).

How to play

You can find this bot at https://t.me/boggle_paroliere_bot. Add it to a group chat to play!

How to host

If you want to run this bot on your own server, you need at least Python 3.6 and to follow these simple steps:

• git clone https://github.com/e-caste/boggle-telegram-bot
• cd boggle-telegram-bot
• python3 -m venv venv
• source venv/bin/activate
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python boggle_telegram_bot.py
• When you're done: deactivate to exit the virtual environment where you've installed the requirements.

There is no noticeable improvement by using PyPy instead of CPython.