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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    61·
    3 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.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 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?

      • bionicjoeyEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Unless the game procedurally generates the words from a dictionary

        • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 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.

          • bionicjoeyEnglish
            3·
            3 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.