Open eson57 opened 2 years ago
An easy way to make the game more difficult is to disallow use of the extended dictionary.
I'm looking at 'morphing' the german dictionary 'on occasion' . Both dict. files are currently actually 'legit' words. Which is wrong, but I just wanted to start playing ;) The online versions I've found mix in a 'lot' of foreign words which I might do for the 'more common' of them.
What about 'authors dicts'. For instance, all the five letter words in Hans-Christer Ericson's HCE URVAL. In English, there's a killer. Ezra Pound's Cantos I-XXX. I have an addition that's dual German/English. And Pound, famously, wrote in all modern and ancient European (and sometimes Asian) languages at once. Sooooo.... literary Wordle! Switch by language and author!
Just a note that taking a literary figures output, in general, is not so interesting. I did the collected works of Goethe, the brothers Grimm and Bettina von Arnim and none of those was interesting. The problem with mixing languages is that the keyboard will be unwieldy if you add, say, Greek (as in the case of Ezra Pound). I'm trying some more experiments as I find time.
I'm thinking one "easy" and one "difficult", as I've seen online. As is, the Swedish list contains about 2500 correct words, and about 8000 "incorrect", and looking at the incorrect list, I can with some hard work move at minimum several hundred (probably thousands) of words to the correct list. That would make the game considerably more difficult. What do you think, is it doable? I love this game, you introduced into my life, but I sometimes think it is to easy. ;) And yes, the same goes for playing the English list.