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Pretty frustrating when you find a word, but it's not THE word. Pretty fun otherwise.
by throwaway_ocr 4mo ago
Pretty frustrating when you find a word, but it's not THE word. Pretty fun otherwise.
- functionmouse 4mo agotbh this should accept all dictionary matches
- pompomsheep 4mo agoDid you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? I do have another version where it accepts ANY word but I found it quite unsatisfying when I survived by randomly spamming combinations and finding a really obscure word. So am currently running it against a 20,000 word wordlist instead of my larger 300,000 wordlist
- happytoexplain 4mo agoThe third one in the archive wouldn't accept "tase" or "sate" for "seat".
- IAmGraydon 4mo ago300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!
- echoangle 4mo agoI guess the wordlist with 300k contains all the different forms a word can have while the 171k count is only the base words.
- pompomsheep 4mo agoHaha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff
- maxweylandt 4mo agoGoing two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed
- elxr 4mo ago"braze" is a very common word, especially if you like bicycles. Definitely not any less valid or unsatisfying than "zebra".
- pompomsheep 4mo agoOk yes all good examples. Have reverted back ot the large dictionary for now which accepts all these
- groggo 4mo agoI would argue it's less satisfying. I like bikes and I still had to look it up.
- darepublic 4mo agojust tried that same archive puzzle and it accepted braze for me
- svantana 4mo agothe obvious solution is to not use the words that have an obscure word as anagram. I failed on 'target' because I went for 'regatta'.
- paulluuk 4mo agoWhy not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?
- pompomsheep 4mo agoInteresting idea but too many people mistype / mispell on first attempt (mostly me)
- mhb 4mo agoquite/quiet
- fsckboy 4mo agoDid you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be? EARLS was not accepted, and I had already decided not to try REALS. (is there a rule against plurals?) what it was looking for was LASER which has a more tenuous claim on being a word than those two.
- DamnInteresting 4mo agoI've built a some word games over the years (e.g., wordwhile.com, omiword.com), and one thing I've discovered is that players find it very unsatisfying when they enter a real, valid word and the game rejects it. I imagine that the timer would amplify that sense of unfairness. Granted, there are also people who get annoyed when the game seems too accepting of unusual words, but if you can point them to a valid dictionary definition for that oddball word, they usually accept it without argument.
- groggo 4mo agoI'm one of those people who get annoyed if it's too loose. But I can just impose that restriction on myself and look down on people who rely on obscure words.
- shaftway 4mo agoOn today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.
- tikhonj 4mo agoIs that actually a word, or were you thinking of "wrought"?
- quickthrowman 4mo agoThe word is ‘wrought’, which is why it wasn’t accepted.