README.md

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title: শব্দচাক
emoji: 🐝
colorFrom: yellow
colorTo: green
sdk: static
fullWidth: true
license: gpl-3.0
short_description: একটি মোবাইল-ফার্স্ট বাংলা শব্দের ধাঁধা

শব্দচাক

A polished, mobile-first Bengali word puzzle. Players combine seven mixed Bengali base letters—independent vowels and consonants—with vowel signs, hasanta, conjuncts, and diacritics to discover approved words while always using the center letter.

The current demo uses a small hand-curated local dictionary and stores progress in the browser. It is not a complete Bengali dictionary. There is no backend in this phase.

Text model

Composition is stored as a history of individual user actions and rendered through normal Unicode shaping. Delete reverses exactly one action. A hive vowel becomes its dependent sign after a consonant (আ + ক + আ + র → আকার). Dictionary comparisons use NFC normalization.

Game and dictionary rules

• Words require at least three playable units and must contain the center hive symbol. A dependent vowel sign counts as its corresponding hive vowel.
• Hive letters may mix independent vowels and consonants, and may repeat. Dependent vowel signs, hasanta, diacritics, ra-phala, and ya-phala are orthographic operators rather than hive letters.
• An independent vowel such as আ can satisfy a hive requirement; its dependent sign ◌া cannot.
• য/র after hasanta use the corresponding hive letters and count normally. ং and ৎ may also be hive symbols.
• A three-unit word earns one point; longer words earn one point per unit. A seven-symbol pangram earns seven bonus points when present, but pangrams are not required.
• The answer list is editorially curated. It includes common standard Bengali words and specifically approved common inflections or loanwords; it excludes proper nouns, spaces, hyphens, punctuation, digits, offensive terms, and unusually obscure forms.
• Dictionary entries are NFC-normalized and reviewed per puzzle. The demo dictionary is intentionally small and is not presented as a complete Bengali lexicon.

Development

Install dependencies:

npm install

Start the local development server:

npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:3000.

Quality checks

npm run lint
npm run build

Production

npm run build

The production build is exported as a static site in out/ for deployment to Hugging Face Spaces.