Comment by knuckleheads

1. This is interesting. It's definitely made with language learners in mind, so there's a copious amount of hints. There's also a ranking system, where you do get penalized if you guess so much. That's not so forward, it used to be up front and friends didn't like it so much. One way of making it harder is taking out the 2 and 3 letter words, which really reduces the number of hints you get via word fill ins. I was thinking of something like Three Emojis++ as a name for that mode, but I haven't gotten around to testing it out so much.

2. I've removed NNW now. I've got a todo list to start playing a day ahead and doing a final pass over such things so that not as much weird stuff gets through. I do like having onomatopoeic words, because in German, it is really interesting to me to see them. I would like to known the German equivalents to Eh, ow, oh, ew and so I leave such things in. But have five different versions of ewwww, yes, that'll get fixed.

I have scripts that tune it to specific numbers of words each day by selecting different letter sets based on my curated word list, so removing words doesn't have such a big impact. And the emojis are hit or miss, but when they hit they are very funny and helpful. I would never ask a human to label 75 words a day with emojis, but GPT-5 will happily do it for a $1 a day.

Thank you for playing!!! And writing this comment!!