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> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA) This is not entirely correct (or at
by SkiFire13 1mo ago
> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA)
This is not entirely correct (or at least it's worded a bit weirdly).
If you know that A goes in a certain place you can still try a word using A more than once. It's only once you know that A does not appear twice (because you tried a word containing A twice, and the second A way gray!) then you can no longer use A twice.
In your case you tried MAMMA which contained 2 As and the second one gave you the information that there's no second A.
- gpvos 1mo agoAre there no words with the same letter three or more times?
- forbiddenvoid 1mo agoIf there was a second of the same letter, but in the wrong place, it would be yellow. If it's gray, that means there is no repetition of that letter. So once you've seen that the second one is gray, you have the information you need to know that letter is not repeated.
- stirfish 1mo agoGrepping /usr/share/dict/words shows 110 words that have five letters and the same letter 3 or more times, e.g. sassy, added, daddy, nanny, melee, levee, mummy
- noknownsender 1mo agoIt also accepted GEESE
- fwip 1mo agoMamma has 3 M's.
- jibal 1mo agoThere obviously are, e.g., mamma. What was the point in asking this (irrelevant) question?
- gpvos 1mo agoI read a bit too quickly over "It's only once you know that A does not appear twice", thinking it disregarded the case where A appears three or more times, but if read well that was addressed in the remainder of the sentence.
- eptcyka 1mo agoHow many times do distinct letters appear in the word mamma? Do not write code to produce an answer.