A word game, where your objective is to spell a word that is as infrequently used as possible!
I made this game for my wife; it began as a weird thing I did:
Hey, if you change these letters of this 'word' it forms this other 'werd' ...
Eventually, I did it enough that she would also play along. For Christmas this year, I decided to make this into an actual game for her (and our friends/family and maybe YOU to play it).
Head here!
- You are provided with a word.
- You are to form a new word of the same size (same number of characters as the provided word)
- You can use any characters of the English alphabet to form the new word
- The new word cannot be the provided word!
- You get three trys per day!
- Less frequently used words in modern english provide a higher score (i.e.,
grappleis higher in value thanthrough). - Try to reuse the characters from the provided word. Every new character used in your new word decreases your score by
$\frac{1}{\text{wordlen}}$ .
Scores are computed by asking Google's N-Gram Viewer for the frequency of occurence of the word you submitted. The frequency (which is generally very, very small) is then mapped to a logarithmic scale (Base 10), and multiplied by -10. For those non-mathy individuals reading this: this is only to provide a score that is somewhat comprehendible and comparable to others. Therefore, after scaling, the range of scores are from [0, +INF)! If you want to "cheat" you could look up the word using the N-Gram viewer, and find out if the frequency of the word is very small... :)
Try to get a high scoring word (i.e., an infrequently used word which reuses (some or all) of the provided word)!
Intended for Python 3.10!
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir data;
cat init.sql | sqlite3 data/database.db;NOTE: If you are serving this web app from this directory and have used a different working directory,
then you should replace data/database.db with the appropriate root prefixed atop of this!
- Nicholas V. Giamblanco: Core Work