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octokatherine / word-master

A Mastermind-like word guessing game
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"gyoza" is probably an excessively difficult word #52

Closed boergens closed 2 years ago

boergens commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/octokatherine/word-master/blob/main/src/data/answers.js#L895

octokatherine commented 2 years ago

haha, I kind of disagree here actually, but the list is totally biased to how well I know words. would be curious to hear more thoughts on this one.

I'm hesitant to remove a word every time someone requests a removal, because we could really whittle down the list that way

boergens commented 2 years ago

I guess everybody has different words they are familiar with :-) Google Ngram viewer would be a good way to objectivize this. For example this could be seen as evidence that "drake" should replace "deked" in the list of possible answers: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deked%2Cdrake%2Cgyoza&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdeked%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdrake%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgyoza%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cdeked%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdrake%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgyoza%3B%2Cc0

I'll look into this a bit more to see whether I can create a list of "difficult" words and potential replacements

boergens commented 2 years ago

I added some more words than I removed, this would be the next batch of potential deletion candidates (frequency between 0.000000007 and 0.000000017)

abash bundt cakey ditsy doggo duffs easer frier fudgy gabby gnarl gyoza hypes icier lacey okays snark syren tases taxer unpin yappy

octokatherine commented 2 years ago

would you want to open a PR with those changes?

octokatherine commented 2 years ago

ah just noticed you did, thank you! merged.

boergens commented 2 years ago

some more inclusion candidates for future reference https://gist.github.com/boergens/e520d4ca9205722a90f54f14193e44dd