puzzle-tools

Some tools for solving MIT Mystery Hunt puzzles

Features

Codes
- amino - nucleotide and amino acid sequences
- braille - Braille
- morse - Morse code
- semaphore - flag semaphore
- code_misc - other codes (currently just military time zones)
Data sets
- enumerations - data sets: chemical elements, US states
- enumerations_web - various data sets that can be downloaded from the web. Includes lists of countries, resistor colors, zodiac symbols, currencies, languages, MIT classes, subway stations, airports, airlines, and stock symbols.
- subway - more lists of subway stations that can be downloaded from the web
Properties of words
- word_properties - functions for determining if a word has a particular property (e. g. being a cryptogram of a particular other word).
Domain-specific wordlist generators
- wordlists.imdb - generates lists of well-known actors, directors, movies, and television shows using data from IMDb (this no longer works due to IMDb changing their data format; see dgulotta/wordlist_gen instead)
- wordlist.names - generates lists of common American first names using data from the Social Security Administration

The following interactive web pages are included:

The features are mostly orthogonal to those of rspeer/solvertools.

The Python modules require Python 3.6 or later.