This is a quick and dirty program to assist in terminal hacking in fallout games. I've used it successfully in Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4. It should work anywhere the same game mechanic is used for terminal hacking.
- enter words, one per line
- empty line when done
- script will suggest optimal guess
- provide feedback from the game (number of characters matched)
- word list is filtered based on the feedback
- rinse/repeat
the algorithm picks a candidate word such that if wrong it will eliminate at many other words from the list as possible.
egrep "^[a-z][aei][a-z][a-z][aeiou][a-z]$" /usr/share/dict/words |less
the word is "denial"
$ cargo run
Compiling fallout-terminal-hacker v0.1.0 (/home/bracher/git/fallout-terminal-hacker)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.28s
Running `target/debug/fallout-terminal-hacker`
Enter words, one per-line, empty line when done.
aerial
babied
bagged
backer
ballad
bemoan
calves
canyon
citrus
decked
denial
dimmer
faucet
fasten
ferret
gambit
garden
genial
healer
heaven
harden
jagged
killer
bagged is optimal
What was the reported count?
0
{"citrus", "aerial", "denial", "genial"}
genial is optimal
What was the reported count?
5
{"denial"}
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denial and genial actually have an equal chance of being the second guess,
but it worked out this time for the example.