The strange, the bizarre and the unexpected

[Naboka]

Nice work! I keep a list of words that I try to commit to memory but I'm not even going to bother with this one, just too hard to burn the "tsesar" sequence in my brain.......

Yeah, it isn't going into my memory banks. Probably never see it again. Simply one of those mistakes that rarely turn beneficial.

Just played one of those oh-really games where you wonder how the rarity classifications occur. I hear/read the word recuse fairly frequently, so didn't bother to enter it, but it was classified as rare.

Rare?

I've only seen reveuse (s) a few times in my life, probably decades ago (when I was reading more and studying French) but it was classified as wide here.

When has anyone here ever ever run across reveuses?

Lovely word that means a dreamer, often a female daydreamer.

Not that I want the classifications redone. Finding head scratchers adds an interesting flavor to the game. And I sure don't want to have to relearn what fits in which category again. That would be a deal breaker. Putting up with oddities is just part of life.

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[RussDNails]

Nice work! I keep a list of words that I try to commit to memory but I'm not even going to bother with this one, just too hard to burn the "tsesar" sequence in my brain.......

[Naboka]

This has got to be the longest fumbled word I've ever done that accidentally turned out to be accepted.

Was trying to type tsareviches. How the extra es got typed, haven't a clue.

Oh well...

thank you clumsy fingers.

cracks me up.

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[BoggleOtaku]

I got HYDRAULICKING

[Spike1007]

I just got FLEXITARIANISMS.

[BoggleOtaku]

I was just reading through this thread, noting Spike's -narian find and then found ATTITUDINARIAN as the only 9+ word in a puzzle.

[BoggleOtaku]

It's either a kidney stone abatement procedure or the excitment when you find something unexpected by stumbling over a boulder. ;-)

[crazykate]

I just found this gem:
LITHOTRIPSICALLY (30 pts.) New record!

I have no idea what it means, and it wasn't in the dictionary. None of the variations worked (ending on "ic", "ical", or the same word without the "litho"). I only found it because I saw the "-sically" suffix sitting there on the board, the "litho-" next to it, and I just ordered the jumble of letters in between into something that would work phonetically.

[Naboka]

Lalatan has brought up the phenomenon of running across a strange word, then soon after running across it in a game.

We have a couple hundred hosta in the back shade gardens. From tiny mouse varieties to huge ones over 3' high and 4-5' wide.

And plenty of snails. The mortal enemy of beautiful hosta. That do this. Just a stock photo but it's what some of our hosta look like at the moment.

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So, researching how to best handle the problem, we ran across the weird phenomenon where snails can actually act as pollinators for a certain plants.

Malicophily is pollination by snails and malicophilous is the adaption by a plant to being pollinated by snails.

Boring.

Right.

Not that it's any more interesting than hundreds of other words here.

But...

reading about that stuff in the last week while learning how to better get rid of snails--and then running across

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Weird how the universe works.

[DrPlacebo]

You can detox, and apparently you can also RETOX. I did not expect that to be accepted.

[BoggleOtaku]

Typo: I meant ChatGPT
New Chat (freechatgpt.chat)

I tried suggesting the reverse operation, and I think it helped constrain the problem, better, but still basic problems like not being able to count the numbers of letters in the starting word correctly plus making up words at the end of the chain in order to inflate the result to some expected number. Here's the best I was able to achieve, with further corrects leading to poorer responses:

Apologies for the oversight once again. Here's a new example of a chain starting with a word of at least 22 letters, aiming for a chain with at least 8 words:

Disproportionateness → Disproportionate → Proportionate → Proportion → Portion → Port → Pot → Po

In this chain, each word is formed by truncating letters from the previous word to form a valid word. This chain consists of 8 words.

I apologize for the confusion caused by the previous errors, and I appreciate your patience. If you have any further instructions or requests, please let me know.

[Naboka]

Since I was just curious about how long the chain could be, I decided ask IGT chat. After trying to correct its response about 15 times (for instance, "championshipshipshipship" is not a valid word), here is what I got:

Apologies for the oversight. Let me provide a valid example that satisfies all the criteria:

chain (5 letters) → chains (6 letters) → chainsaw (8 letters) → chainsaws (9 letters) → chainsawed (11 letters) → disenchanted (12 letters) → disqualified (12 letters) → disqualifiers (13 letters) → undeniably (10 letters) → (no valid word)

In this revised chain, the word lengths grow each time, and each word includes the previous word exactly without any permutations. The chain stops when no valid word can be formed by adding letters to the beginning or end while meeting all the given rules. I apologize for the previous errors, and thank you for your patience.

After this response, I realized it "thought" I specified "chain" as the word to start with. After correcting this and another 10 or so corrections, I got:

Apologies for the error in the previous response. Let's start with the word "disappear" to create a valid chain:

disappear → appearance → appearances → reappearance → reappearances → irreappearances → irreappearances' →

In this revised chain, each word is formed by adding letters either to the beginning or the end of the previous word, adhering to the given rules. This chain consists of 7 words. Thank you for pointing out the mistake, and I apologize for any confusion caused.

no idea what IGT chat is. One of the downsides of being old and technologically deficient.

[BoggleOtaku]

Since I was just curious about how long the chain could be, I decided ask IGT chat. After trying to correct its response about 15 times (for instance, "championshipshipshipship" is not a valid word), here is what I got:

Apologies for the oversight. Let me provide a valid example that satisfies all the criteria:

chain (5 letters) → chains (6 letters) → chainsaw (8 letters) → chainsaws (9 letters) → chainsawed (11 letters) → disenchanted (12 letters) → disqualified (12 letters) → disqualifiers (13 letters) → undeniably (10 letters) → (no valid word)

In this revised chain, the word lengths grow each time, and each word includes the previous word exactly without any permutations. The chain stops when no valid word can be formed by adding letters to the beginning or end while meeting all the given rules. I apologize for the previous errors, and thank you for your patience.

After this response, I realized it "thought" I specified "chain" as the word to start with. After correcting this and another 10 or so corrections, I got:

Apologies for the error in the previous response. Let's start with the word "disappear" to create a valid chain:

disappear → appearance → appearances → reappearance → reappearances → irreappearances → irreappearances' →

In this revised chain, each word is formed by adding letters either to the beginning or the end of the previous word, adhering to the given rules. This chain consists of 7 words. Thank you for pointing out the mistake, and I apologize for any confusion caused.

[Naboka]

Naboka,

Just got: HARM,PHARM,PHARMA,PHARMACOLOGIC,PHARMACOLOGICAL,PH ARMACOLOGICALLY,NEUROPHARMACOLOGICALLY, for chain of 7. I wonder if 10 is possible.

There are an amazing number in that 4x4. I have noticed, with the new ultra large word count boards added in 5x5, many ultra large word count boards having words with the various alterations found in your board for many different roots even in the same board, such as MORAL-,NORMAL-,IDEAL-,RATIONAL-, etc. I was going to try to find an example to post, but haven't run across one the last couple of days to my surprise.

Congtrats on your last post. I think you can overcome the asymptote to perfection with your persistence. I was wondering why 100 words; is it your personal goal targeting a difficult yet attainable challenge?

Thanks.

And congrats.

Yep. Attainability.

And safety.

With sufficient difficulty to make it worth the effort.

I'd practised typing a while back and was hitting 150 words occaisionally on 4x4. Lasted less than a week, then the inflammation got so bad I had to cut back.

Way back.

I was worried I'd have to stop playing entirely.

Who wants to live with tunnel carpal and that ilk?

Now I just try to set an easy pace in the 100 word range. If I go much over that, the pain makes me pay. (Though lots of games I play end up with less than 80 words so the fingers get a little rest.)

100 is just such a delightful milestone number, so...

Just think how few of us reach a hundred years.

Not to mention, anyone could do a perfect red board if the standard were: a red board. Type one word that's ultrarare and you've done it. Or ten. Or fifty.

I'll probably hit 110 UR's eventually. Find some board with 300-400 ultrarares and hit a groove. Saw some longer ultrarare words on both the above boards that I didn't play to optimize the word count--and reduce the chance for errors. Lot of good that did, but... I've been leaving a lot of words untyped.

But, all this ignores the dozens of games that crash and burn before leaving the runway. It's a lot of failures hiding behind the successes.

Have fun on your word hunts. (Or haunts.) Always a bit more exciting to have personal sidebars to what you're doing.

[BoggleOtaku]

Naboka,

Just got: HARM,PHARM,PHARMA,PHARMACOLOGIC,PHARMACOLOGICAL,PH ARMACOLOGICALLY,NEUROPHARMACOLOGICALLY, for chain of 7. I wonder if 10 is possible.

There are an amazing number in that 4x4. I have noticed, with the new ultra large word count boards added in 5x5, many ultra large word count boards having words with the various alterations found in your board for many different roots even in the same board, such as MORAL-,NORMAL-,IDEAL-,RATIONAL-, etc. I was going to try to find an example to post, but haven't run across one the last couple of days to my surprise.

Congtrats on your last post. I think you can overcome the asymptote to perfection with your persistence. I was wondering why 100 words; is it your personal goal targeting a difficult yet attainable challenge?