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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by xpe on Sunday March 31, 2024 @08:56AM (#39883839)
Warning: if you don't know Scrabble words you will be utterly destroyed. For example "REC" is valid: "An abbreviation for recreation". What the f-? HAHA
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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by card_zero on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:15AM (#39883969)
The npc just won a battle with the word st, defined as "expressing a sudden desire for silence".

Hmm, that's apparently sourced from Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great, but has a very broad concept of "word".

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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by liambigelow on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:24AM (#39884016)
We source the definitions from Wiktionary, but have a much higher bar for words to count as valid in the game. ST comes up often, as I agree it's one of the iffier words, but even Cambridge claims to to be so: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/st
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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by card_zero on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:28AM (#39884048)
That page only defines it as an abbreviation (for saint, short ton, street, or stone).
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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by liambigelow on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:32AM (#39884092)
Ah, 2am reading comprehension on my part. Yes, if we ever remove rather than add to the dictionary in the future I might look to axe it.
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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by xpe on Monday April 01, 2024 @06:13AM (#39892484)
Yes, please ax "st".
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Re:Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game by xpe on Monday April 01, 2024 @06:12AM (#39892475)
"ST is not a playable word" per https://scrabble.merriam.com
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