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Re:Show HN: One More Letter by propter_hoc on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:11PM (#48929299)
I tried "KITERS" and "TRIKES" at the 5 letter level, but the app specifically wanted "STRIKE." It kinda demoralized me to have come up with two answers and not be able to proceed, I realized that it wasn't worth trying to guess before the clue came up so I quit out.
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by ryhanshannon on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:42PM (#48929455)
Same thing here happened with 'irks' and 'risk'
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by shshsjsj on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:26PM (#48929376)
wtf is kiters?
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by what on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:37PM (#48929428)
People flying kites?
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by luipugs on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:35PM (#48929418)
kiters = kiteboarders. Welcome to Australia, the country where the words are made up and meanings don't matter.
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by saghm on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:16AM (#48930634)
All words are made up
Re:Show HN: One More Letter by fjlunky on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:21AM (#48932162)
That’s what luipugs said.

An interesting twist on this game might be that spelling is enforced to be non-standard. Here are letters, here’s the meaning, make the word but it must not be spelt right.

Re:Show HN: One More Letter by saghm on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#48935637)
No, they said that in Australia words are made up. I'm not disagreeing, but I'm saying that it's not specific to Australia!

Tangentially, it's funny to me that you happen to use "spelt" here; I've always felt that it doesn't look like a "real" word and choose to use "spelled" instead, but I also recognize that this is entirely my own personal thing and not reflective of anything other than my own issues. It's a great example to me though of how trying to push personal feelings about words against a wider consensus mostly just leads to frustration without any real gains, so it's less frustrating in the long to be able to live with the fact that they won't always match up.

Language is weird and wonderful and despite often being inconsistent and sometimes outright annoying, it's also extremely powerful, and it works well maybe because of the resiliency it needs to withstand the very real limitations it has, and I choose to embrace it all and enjoy it! (I also suspect is why I enjoy puns way more than average; to quote one of my former coworkers, "words are toys")

Re:Show HN: One More Letter by iambenm on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:32AM (#48930378)
Spoiler alert, it seems to be like Wordle in that the same puzzle is given to everyone for that day.