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If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result
by trothamel 8mo ago
If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result was a really accessible game - none of the words felt like ones you wouldn't know. It probably makes sense to reuse words than risk losing that accessibility.
(I kept a copy of original wordle, and it seems to have 2,315 words that are possible answers.)
- jonwinstanley 8mo agoYes there’s no point using technically correct words if hardly anyone know them.
- sobkas 8mo agoLanguage or the way we use it is often used to exclude "undesired", so there is a point in using them. Not a very nice point, but a point nevertheless.
- hyperbovine 8mo agoSure there is, as long as your audience does.
- knuckleheads 8mo agoYes, that's correct! Took her about a year off and on, he had made a little app for her to go through and categorize everything. As an aside, for about $200, you can ask a true/false question of every word in the English language with a frontier LLM, and get mostly good answers. I make word games in my free time and was sort of shocked when I realized how cheap intelligence has been getting.
- amluto 8mo ago$200? Does this use reasoning? Does it involve forgetting to use KV caching? This should cost well under $1. Process the prompt. Then, for each word, input that word and then the end of prompt token, get your one token of output (maybe two if your favorite model wants to start with a start-of-reply token), and that’s it.
- knuckleheads 8mo agoYes, it uses reasoning. I tried without it, and at the time with OpenAI's api, it was not giving such good answers. Reasoning improved it a fair amount.
- BurningFrog 8mo agoThis may well be why the game became such a hit among everyone.
- hyperbovine 8mo agoIt’s this. There are many five letter words that are not “wordley”. Words such as, idk, bokeh, are technically part of the lexicon but would never appear as a solution. The wordle bot will even tell you this if you guess them — “good guess, but unlikely to appear as a solution”. The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear.
- gretch 8mo ago> The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear. Not my experience at all. Ask me how I know what an EPEE is
- busyant 8mo ago> EPEE They love that one.
- wombatpm 8mo agoIf you took fencing at an Ivy League school for you PR requirement you would know all about foil, saber, and epee fencing. Not everyone gets to row crew.
- hvb2 8mo agoWholly offtopic but just posting because I thought it was awesome... During Covid I saw an ad for a fencing school how it was the best sport during Covid. You wear a mask You keep your distance And if someone doesn't, you stick em with the pointy end :)
- thaumasiotes 8mo agoIt's actually a terrible sport for covid, involving heavy breathing in close proximity to other people indoors. Any outdoor sport would be better.
- NewJazz 8mo agoAlso they seem to never use vulgar words like my opener, penis.