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Like many, I spent some time thinking about this, and realized if I could analyze the words used so far, I could find some patterns. For example, the creator mi
by petercooper 5y ago
Like many, I spent some time thinking about this, and realized if I could analyze the words used so far, I could find some patterns. For example, the creator might not ever use plurals meaning RATES might not be such a helpful starting word with the S.
So I Googled the last several solutions to find such a list and instead I found... a gist where someone had reverse engineered the game and put up a list of every solution, including for the next several months. On the plus side, I now don't spend time on the game.. but this is perhaps a warning to not go down the rabbit hole yourself if you want to keep playing ;-)
- bejd 5y agoIt probably didn't take a lot of reverse engineering: the solution list is stored in plaintext in the site's javascript!
- petercooper 5y agoI saw that, but I had naively assumed it would at least not be in the right order and some sort of date based hash would be used to shuffle it up.. ha! The simplest things..
- Arnavion 5y agoIt's because a) the word list is hard-coded in the game's JS, so anyone can see it with "View Source", and b) the list is indexed based on the current day (as reported by the JS) and wraps around to the start. So you don't just have solutions for the next several months. You have all the solutions ever :)