Even if it is by the Grauniad, it is a rather enjoyable game, reminiscent of "It Pays To Increase Your Word Power" in Reader's Digest. Rather than defining a word, however, players are given a daily cluster of letters (one day this week, for instance, it was "FEN"), and the goal is to divine the longest possible word which includes that compound. Occasionally, it's also possible to come with solutions longer than those proposed by the puzzlers (that day, I chanced "COUNTEROFFENSIVELY", which proved correct, and just edged out "COUNTEROFFENSIVES" ). You can try it here.
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Have they added enough words to their dictionary that it isn't absolutely fucking infuriating to play yet? I started playing the day they launched it and jacked it in after about a week because it kept saying that perfectly good words weren't in the word list. And I can't remember any specifics now but at least two of them were really obvious words. So rather than being an attempt to find the actual longest word you were just trying to guess what the far-too-short word list contained.
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The word bank they use is definitely quite strange and I don't understand why it's possible to get longer words than the official longest word. I got two words today that were both three letters longer than the "longest word" and they were both accepted.
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Originally posted by Sam View PostHave they added enough words to their dictionary that it isn't absolutely fucking infuriating to play yet? I started playing the day they launched it and jacked it in after about a week because it kept saying that perfectly good words weren't in the word list. And I can't remember any specifics now but at least two of them were really obvious words. So rather than being an attempt to find the actual longest word you were just trying to guess what the far-too-short word list contained.
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