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Hangman's hardest word

• jacquesm 16y ago
  Except of course that people don't guess randomly. If the object is to beat a computer (as in the article) that will work, but if the objective is to beat a human j..z isn't all that hard because there are only two words in the English language that match that pattern and only one of them is 'printable'.
  • nimai 16y ago
    That's only using the older variant of hangman where you start with the first and last letters. I think the article is pretty clearly discussing the more modern, "wheel of fortune" variety.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      That's got to be a cultural thing, I've never even heard of wheels of fortune combined with hangman.
• what 16y ago
  Here's the discussion from the last time this was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601978 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1601978