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Blabrecs
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI love this idea but I’m disappointed by the execution. The name is a nonsensical anagram of the original so I thought those would be fair game, but nearly all the ones I tried were rejected. Maybe I’m not “getting it” well enough to play?
- bargle0 6y agoTacking on a common suffix (-ish, -ed, etc.) seems to help.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoOkay that I can work with. I also had more luck using real words and just substituting other vowels.
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- jaspax 6y agoMost anagrams of English words don't themselves look like English words, so anagrams are not really a very fruitful way to find words that this algorithm will accept. The real trick is to use common letter and vowel combinations, combined in ways which by happenstance don't correspond to actual words. Off the top of my head, I just generated BRECK, LUND, and ALOUGHT, all of which the AI accepted. EDIT: Another fruitful strategy is words with common Greek or Latinate suffixes, mashed together at random. I just got ANACHROSIS and PERILATION. This seems to be particularly fruitful for generating long words for people looking to make those 50 point plays.
- chris_st 6y agoIt liked "scrabeloid", for whatever it's worth (several points in scrabble!).
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago>> CROMULENT > looks good to me! Works pretty well, as far as I can tell. Edit: yes, "EMBIGGEN" works as well. Edit 2: "COVID" works, while "COVI" doesn't. "VIRUST" needs a meaning. "SOLIPSITUDING" really doesn't.
- noitpmeder 6y agoLooks like it's closely correlated with the levenshtein distance (number of single character differences).
- kickscondor 6y agoThis is cool! I have a similar game I play with friends called GUCHAT. Same game - nonsense words on a Scrabble board. But everyone has to approve your word. (And you do get a chance to defend the word if there is pushback.) Neat to see the concept extended. And perhaps others out there are playing variations of this under different names...
- nullc 6y agoThe fact that blabrecs isn't an allowed non-word is disappointing.
- zaxu 6y agoIt says that "blabrecs" is a better sounding version of the original word "brablecs", which IS accepted
- clort 6y agoneeds more training? FOOBAR: no way thats a word! Google: About 9,920,000 results (0.42 seconds) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
- epse 6y agoNot in a dictionary that would be okay for scrabble I guess
- BasDirks 6y agoIt's fond of "in", "on", "ing", "tion", etc. QUO is not allowed. DINATINANITANID is allowed.
- traceroute66 6y agoSeems to be a bit of a major bug if it considers two-letter words to be "that's too short to be a word!".
- codeulike 6y agoIndeed, two letter words are vitally important in scrabble, and hence in Blabrecs
- riidom 6y agoAnother game from the author: https://mkremins.itch.io/starfreighter https://mkremins.itch.io/starfreighter Though entirely different than this one; it's about procedural generated storylets. Personally, I love this combination of buzzwords.
- chris_st 6y agoThat's cool! Clever idea, really like a bunch of early computer games I played.