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''bail fail hail jail mail nail pail rail sail tail wail'' (and ''vail'', but that's not a common word)
:: There are hundreds of simple words, surprisingly a large number of plurals that are not in that dictionary. It seems silly to lose a game because the plural of '''tin''' isn't in the dictionary. One solution, of course, is to use a decent dictionary, but how is anybody to know that a large number of (common) words (that '''are''' words) aren't in a particular dictionary? It doesn't seem/feel right that a player should lose because a word isn't included, moreover, a common word. I lost a game when the first word presented was '''irs'''. ... Couldn't use ''ors'', ''firs'', ''its'', ''airs'', ''ids'', ''IVs'', ''irk'', ''ins'', ''mirs'', or ''sirs''. I missed ''IRA'' and ''ire''. Bummer. As a sidenote, when I was playing Scrabble
::: Ah. Hi Gérard, when playing with my partner, we either agree what's acceptable, or Google the word when unsure. In the Python source I swapped from the ~25K words of unixdict.txt to another dictionary with over 400K words.
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:::: Sounds like a sound approach. So you were playing without a Rosetta Code computer program for the referee. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 17:39, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
:::::Aye, developed with my partner a couple of years back, with not a computer in sight. We played again last Friday and I thought of writing the program as something to do for RC. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 18:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
== another word game ==
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