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Re:Blabrecs by eyelidlessness on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:25PM (#25412847)

I love this idea but I’m disappointed by the execution. The name is a nonsensical anagram of the original so I thought those would be fair game, but nearly all the ones I tried were rejected. Maybe I’m not “getting it” well enough to play?

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Re:Blabrecs by jaspax on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:30AM (#25414173)

Most anagrams of English words don't themselves look like English words, so anagrams are not really a very fruitful way to find words that this algorithm will accept.

The real trick is to use common letter and vowel combinations, combined in ways which by happenstance don't correspond to actual words. Off the top of my head, I just generated BRECK, LUND, and ALOUGHT, all of which the AI accepted.

EDIT: Another fruitful strategy is words with common Greek or Latinate suffixes, mashed together at random. I just got ANACHROSIS and PERILATION. This seems to be particularly fruitful for generating long words for people looking to make those 50 point plays.

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Re:Blabrecs by bargle0 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:31PM (#25412885)

Tacking on a common suffix (-ish, -ed, etc.) seems to help.

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Re:Blabrecs by eyelidlessness on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:32PM (#25412893)

Okay that I can work with. I also had more luck using real words and just substituting other vowels.

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Re:Blabrecs by chris_st on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:21AM (#25417157)

It liked "scrabeloid", for whatever it's worth (several points in scrabble!).

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