The third one in the archive wouldn't accept "tase" or "sate" for "seat".
replyI'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.
replyGranted, 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.
I'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.
replyGoing two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed
replyOn today's puzzle, `WROGHT` was rejected, and I got `GROWTH` just in the nick of time.
replyIs that actually a word, or were you thinking of "wrought"?
replyThe word is ‘wrought’, which is why it wasn’t accepted.
reply"braze" is a very common word, especially if you like bicycles.
replyDefinitely not any less valid or unsatisfying than "zebra".
I would argue it's less satisfying. I like bikes and I still had to look it up.
replyOk yes all good examples. Have reverted back ot the large dictionary for now which accepts all these
replyjust tried that same archive puzzle and it accepted braze for me
replyWhy not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?
replyInteresting idea but too many people mistype / mispell on first attempt (mostly me)
replythe obvious solution is to not use the words that have an obscure word as anagram. I failed on 'target' because I went for 'regatta'.
reply> I failed on ‘target’ because I went for ‘regatta’.
replyGiven that those two don’t have the same letters, isn’t that the expected outcome?
Haha oops, you're right :)
replyThat seems only fair. ;-)
replyquite/quiet
replyDid you find a word that wasn't accepted you thought should be?
replyEARLS 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.
300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!
replyI guess the wordlist with 300k contains all the different forms a word can have while the 171k count is only the base words.
replyHaha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff
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