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tbh this should accept all dictionary matches
by functionmouse 3mo ago
tbh this should accept all dictionary matches
- pompomsheep 3mo 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 3mo agoThe third one in the archive wouldn't accept "tase" or "sate" for "seat".
- IAmGraydon 3mo ago300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!
- echoangle 3mo 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 3mo agoHaha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff
- maxweylandt 3mo agoGoing two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed
- elxr 3mo ago"braze" is a very common word, especially if you like bicycles. Definitely not any less valid or unsatisfying than "zebra".
- pompomsheep 3mo agoOk yes all good examples. Have reverted back ot the large dictionary for now which accepts all these
- groggo 3mo agoI would argue it's less satisfying. I like bikes and I still had to look it up.
- darepublic 3mo agojust tried that same archive puzzle and it accepted braze for me
- svantana 3mo 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 3mo agoWhy not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?
- pompomsheep 3mo agoInteresting idea but too many people mistype / mispell on first attempt (mostly me)
- mhb 3mo agoquite/quiet
- fsckboy 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo agoOn today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.
- tikhonj 3mo agoIs that actually a word, or were you thinking of "wrought"?
- quickthrowman 3mo agoThe word is ‘wrought’, which is why it wasn’t accepted.