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I read the dictionary to make a better game (2023)

Tau Games : I Read the Dictionary to Make a Better Word Game

Large dictionaries can work fairly well for multiplayer games such as Scrabble, as long as the players have roughly similar vocabularies. Before I started creating a word game, I didn’t realize the extent to which dictionary selection and curation is both difficult and extremely important. In my experiments, this union seemed to satisfy the completeness property, and included both American and British variants of words (which, as a Canadian, is important to me).

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