Nymwit is a word game in which players compete to come up with the most creative, popular, quirky, or notable acronym given a set of letters — in other words, backronyms.

Nymwit is written in Python, using Django and MongoEngine, and uses MongoDB for storage.

pip install -u requirements.txt
python nymwit/manage.py runserver

There is an accompanying Django management command, gamestate, which is designed to be run by cron (or a similar scheduling system) frequently, as often as once per minute. This command advances the state of Nymwit games as the states ("playing", "voting") end. Without doing so, a game will remain in the "playing" state forever.

Nymwit is licensed under a permissive BSD-like license. See LICENSE in this directory for details. Feel free to fork the project on GitHub; bug fixes, improvements, and suggestions are always welcome.