The game is Word Cookies by Bitmango. I contacted them but haven’t heard back. I’m guessing it was just an oversight, but it still pissed me off.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    How does the game work? Did you have to give this answer, or is it like boggle where you have to construct whatever words from a set of letters?

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      2 months ago

      It has a specific list of words in each level it accepts as answers and you have to get the whole list to go to the next level. Any other words are just bonuses. This was also the longest word in the level.

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        2 months ago

        So like, it wasn’t just hiding in the game’s dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?

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            2 months ago

            I’m not much of a coder, but even if they’re doing something procedural, it can and should still have a blacklist.

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              2 months ago

              If I’m writing a blacklist for slurs, I’m not thinking of archaic words like “griffe”. I’m just making sure it doesn’t use anything that would be used in a modern context.