Plan Word Order Tiles

Plan: word-order tiles without giveaways, and with extra tiles

Source of truth: this wiki page.

Written 2026-10-05.

What the owner asked

sentence production drills should not have pills with punctuation marks or capitalisations, so that they are not obvious. add punctuations separately. and also add words / punctuations which are not needed (at least 2-3 in total) but similar (hand craft the options for each card).

What exists

• A sentence is produced by putting its words in order (Ask.rearrange, ADR-0024). This applies to a card of three words or more, or a phrase of two or more: 1,098 cards.

• The tiles are the card's words in lowercase, without the marks at their edges, and each mark is a tile of its own (tilesOf, #347), so neither a capital nor a mark shows where a word goes. Hindi hi-0480, मैंने चाय पी। (I drank tea), gives the tiles मैंने · चाय · पी · ।

• 856 of the 1,098 cards have punctuation. Each mark appears this often:

  Mark	.	।	?	…	'	,	!	-
  Times	351	281	196	23	23	18	15	3

• Every tile must be placed before Check can be pressed, and the answer is right when the tiles, joined by spaces, match an accepted answer's tiles.

What it takes

1. Tiles without giveaways (done, #347):

   • the words with no punctuation at their edges;
   • in lowercase, where the script has case.

   An apostrophe or a hyphen inside a word stays in it.

2. Punctuation as tiles of their own (done, #347): each mark the sentence has (। . ? , ! …) is a tile, placed like a word. The answer shown afterwards is the sentence as written, with its capital and marks.

3. Extra tiles, written for each card: two or three in total, words or marks, that are not needed but are close to the ones that are. For hi-0480:

   Needed	Extra
   मैंने · चाय · पी · ।	पिया (the masculine form; चाय is feminine) · मैं (without ने) · ?

   This needs a field on the card, such as:

   extra_tiles: ["पिया", "मैं", "?"]
   extra_readings: ["piyā", "maim̐", "?"]   # the same, for Latin letters

   That changes the deck format, which needs the owner's answer (AGENTS.md).

4. Validator:

   • 2 or 3 extra tiles;
   • none equal to a tile the answer needs;
   • extra readings in ISO 15919 letters, matching the extras one for one.

5. Checking:

   • Check can be pressed once as many tiles are placed as the answer has;
   • the answer is right when the words and marks are in order and no extra is used.

6. Content: extra tiles for the 1,098 cards, written per language by agents, then validated and marked for a speaker's check. They are best chosen from what learners confuse: gender and number agreement, ने (Hindi), case endings, a similar word, a question mark for a full stop.

7. Tests for the tiles, the marks, the extras, the check, and the validator.

To decide

• The field names, and whether Latin-letter extras are required.
• Whether a missing or wrong mark makes the answer wrong, or almost right (graded 3).
• Whether every card needs extra tiles before the drill shows any, or the drill uses them where a card has them.

Estimate

• The app: about 3–4 hours.
• The extras: about 1–2 hours per language with checking, for the 1,098 cards.

Confidence: medium.

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