Comment by 🥜 smallpatatas
Re: "@stack out of curiosity, where did you get the word list to…"
Yeah I think keeping it a secret is the right call for Spellbinding. Maybe I'll delete this comment later for the same reason, but I ended up going with the "3of6game" dictionary from
My game accepts plurals though, although maybe I'll regret that choice!
Also grabbed a couple "offensive words/slurs" lists from the web; from those I removed words w/ multiple meanings and/or are just regular swearing, then ran the resulting shorter (very offensive!) list against the big dictionary, plus some stuff like "if dict_word.startswith(bad_word[:-1])" to find plurals etc, then edited this by hand.
Guessing a lot of this sounds familiar :)
May 02 · 5 days ago
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🚀 stack [mod] · May 02 at 18:46:
Yes, it's a process. When I am at a reasonable computer I ssh into the server and mess with the dictionary daily.
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@stack out of curiosity, where did you get the word list to check user input against? Working on a little coding project and there are a LOT of word lists out there ...