• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    I actually find this aspect of the game frustrating. Frustrating enough that I’m not sure if I’ll bother keeping this game in my regular schedule. It shouldn’t matter when I do it, the same answer should be the same score.

    I dunno how you would score it in that way, because the current scoring system is pretty elegant in conception. Maybe using Ngrams or something?

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      5 months ago

      Couldn’t you just measure against the general occurence of a word in online texts? Whether a word is rare or not shouldn’t be dependent on people’s answers, should it?

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        5 months ago

        Yeah that’s basically what Ngrams are.

        an online search engine that charts the frequencies of any set of search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in printed sources published between 1500 and 2019

        Basically: how popular was it to use this word or phrase in all recorded text available to the search engine (including scanned old books), charted over time.

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          5 months ago

          Thanks for the explanation. Yeah then I vote +1 for Ngrams. :D

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      5 months ago

      Not sure about “reload”. I think if you refresh the page it resets entirely and you have a blank field to fill out.

      But if you change an answer and then change it back, yeah it reevaluates.

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Interesting game, and it’s my first time playing.

    Word Grid #47  
    🟦🟦🟦  
    🟧🟧🟪  
    🟩🟨🟦  
    Rarity: 19.8  
    wordgrid.clevergoat.com 🐐  
    

    Edit: I got it down to 7.85 rarity.