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Very cool, thanks! I play every morning. There are times when Sam's curation is very frustrating. It would be nice to submit other valid words and have the game
by ddejohn 3y ago
Very cool, thanks! I play every morning. There are times when Sam's curation is very frustrating. It would be nice to submit other valid words and have the game verify them as a way to score "bonus" points. Oftentimes I find that there are some baffling omissions and, after the fact, some truly bizarre inclusions. It would be nice to be able to score points based on your own vocabulary while still having the game's score based on whatever common denominator Sam comes up with.
- dsjoerg 3y agoAgreed, I get frustrated a few days a week with curation inclusions and exclusions. DOORYARD, MICROMINI, NONCOM, ROMCOM are in the list and IMO shouldn't be. UNTENDED, MONOTONIC, BOLE are not in the list but IMO deserve to be.
- StefanBatory 3y agoAs a nonnative speaker it's first time ever I've heard word "bole" being used
- gomox 3y agoI still remember my disappointment when I entered HEMOPHAGE and it was deemed "not a valid word".
- angiosperm 3y agonaphtha and caracal.
- dmurray 3y agoAnd naphthalene, which would have been a pangram that day.
- themadturk 3y agoI seem to remember both those words were put forward in the hints page, too!
- robsh 3y agoAgreed. When I type a good word that isn’t accepted, I usually just stop playing that days puzzle. My guess is that Sam is not very scientifically literate. Simple weather words like cyclonic or adiabatic, advection, no dice. And then you get some pretty obscure literary words. Makes me want to make a free clone that includes science words, and isn’t afraid of the letter S.
- lozenge 3y agoIt feels like they could just use something like the Google Ngram viewer to filter the words.
- 1over137 3y agoAnd so many "non-American" words are rejected too like: whinge, colour, metre, etc.
- CamperBob2 3y ago"Whinge" is just a plain old misspelling of "Whine," nothing more or less. We don't need "Whinge" to become a word; we already have "Whine."
- olddustytrail 3y agoNo it isn't. What gave you that daft idea?
- CamperBob2 3y agoIt's a stupid word, one that we don't need. 'Whine' works just fine. Why was it necessary to add a 'g'? You can see 'whinge' gaining ground very recently at the expense of 'whine' here: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=whine%2Cwhinge&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=whine%2Cwhinge... This is an outrage, and must be stopped. :-P
- 3y ago