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Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by pompomsheep »

elxr wrote: post #51
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

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Did 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

"braze" is a very common word, especially if you like bicycles. Definitely not any less valid or unsatisfying than "zebra".

Ok yes all good examples. Have reverted back ot the large dictionary for now which accepts all these

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by pompomsheep »

paulluuk wrote: post #56
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

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Did 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

Why not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?

Interesting idea but too many people mistype / mispell on first attempt (mostly me)

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by mjdv »

svantana wrote: post #53
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did 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

the obvious solution is to not use the words that have an obscure word as anagram. I failed on 'target' because I went for 'regatta'.

That seems only fair. ;-)

Re: Show HN: 18 Words

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Post by dahart »

svantana wrote: post #53
pompomsheep wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did 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

the obvious solution is to not use the words that have an obscure word as anagram. I failed on 'target' because I went for 'regatta'.

> I failed on ‘target’ because I went for ‘regatta’.

Given that those two don’t have the same letters, isn’t that the expected outcome?

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