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hryanjones / guess-my-word

A word guessing game, where you only know whether my word is before or after your guess. (An unofficial clone of the game previously available on simbase.org)
https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/
MIT License
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-ise and -ize #43

Open theoneandnoely opened 3 years ago

theoneandnoely commented 3 years ago

Currently, the system is set up such that only the american english spelling of a word is considered the correct guess but the game will allow you to enter the British-English (and Hiberno-English) spelling as a valid but incorrect guess.

For example, today's hard word was "ostracize". My guess of "ostracise" (which is how I would correctly spell it) was met with "my word is after ostracise". Ostracise and ostracize are the same word. They mean the same thing.

I think the game should either accept both spellings as correct guesses or should only allow the "correct" spelling as a valid guess because it's quite annoying to guess multiple other words and find out later that I was right in the first place.

hryanjones commented 3 years ago

I would love to fix this, but it's going to be some coding and also some work to find a way to not miss the British spellings, so I doubt I'll get to this soon (I have a lot less time now that we have a kiddo). That said, I'll try to make this the next thing I work on on the site as you're not the first person to (rightly!) be upset by this.

theoneandnoely commented 3 years ago

Thanks, at the end of the day it's not game-breaking or anything it's just a bit of an annoyance the odd time you encounter it. Congrats on the kid :)

NeilNeilOrangePeel commented 3 years ago

You could at make it clear that words will be American English on the main page, then at least we'd stand a chance of getting it right!