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.
Was the question: “Words Elon Musk uses at home”
I love it. But no, it was just an anagram game.
No that’s Kaffir
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An albino
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A mosquito
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My libido
(But also: a mulatto is also a type of coffee; not just slang for someone of mixed race)
HEYYYY MACARENA
Yeah, yeah
So many kids won’t get this reference. Makes me sad. And feel old af.
2021 was just a string of “oh, that’s 30 years old too” realizations for a metric shitton of iconic albums.
- A coffee
- A person or animal lacking pigmentation
- A parasite
- My sex drive
Makes sense. As much as aqua seafoam shame does anyway.
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They generally just use some free dictionary and don’t censor because that would take any amount of effort.
The funny thing is they do censor. Also, the levels have a set word list that someone came up with beforehand.
Maybe the censor is recycled garbage too then. I know my word game’s dictionary is absolute trash.
Watched that company. They make cheap ad filled copycat games. They can’t be bothered to spend one day on filtering the words from the free dictionary that they used. Same for the support email, they are too busy counting the ad money, there’s nobody reading them
I think you’re thinking of a different company. This game lets you pay a single fee (I think it was $10 but it was literally years ago) and you get to play ad-free. They still annoy you about in-game purchases of “coins” but you can just X out of those.
And to their credit, they got back to me within a few hours and said they would remove the word.
ah, good to know
I mean, it’s a word isn’t it?
The N-word is a word too. Should it be in a list of words you are supposed to figure out to pass a level in a word game?
Your Wordle puzzle of the day, presented by Truth Social.
Takes a bold man to play that word. Would be funny seeing people sweat to play it.
There’s letters n i g g r on the table
*looks at the letter on his hand*
E
“uhh, mmmm, I… I got nothing”
“My turn! I’ll play E. NIGG…!”
“BOBBY NO!”
Like in this classic South Park episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc39s7_Iwo8
Ginger
What did you call me?!?
Yes, I know nobody agrees with me, but I think you should just use that word. I can’t think of any “natursl” way it could pop up in conversation, unless maybe if it’s some hiphop musical context.
If you’re trying to avoid this word like the plague, you’re just giving it more power for the racists who do use that word. If it’s just an archaic word with a weird meaning, like the word “griffe” it looses all power. The racists will probably still keep using it, but it will have as much power as “griffe” has.
Mulatto butts!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/griffe
I’d say their definition is worse than the word itself
Love words?
You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.
Very cool Merriam-Webster
The fucking dictionary is a subscription now?
If the definition provided was:
“A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Yeah!”
It would at least have referenced a great song. Opportunity missed. Oh well.
Okay but what does mulatto mean?
I’m guessing 50/50 mixed race based on context.
Specifically half African-descended and half European (white).
As compared to Mestizo - being half white and half native American (incl. South American)
They went to stuff like Octaroon and Quadroon, having lower percentages of African ancestry.
It’s all super racist obviously.
Someone with mixed African and European ancestry.
Etymologically it’s rather nasty: the word was coined in either Spanish or Portuguese as “mulato”, as a reference to mules (“mula” - horse x donkey hybrid).
In Portuguese it seems to me that this association faded away. However, I’m going to take a guess and say that the word is probably a slur in English, so not something that you want to use for its meaning.
It’s archaic enough that it’s probably not a slur, or at least not a particularly bad one. Archer got away with using this as his ringtone.
Thanks for the info - my guess was wrong then.
No it wasn’t. It’s a backwards and weird word.
I thought it was French holy hell
It is also French, but it means claw
“Mulatto” is also an Italian word, it means the same thing. As someone already said up in the thread, nobody uses it as a slur, but I didn’t know about its etymology. I still won’t judge anyone that uses it, but I can understand how someone might not feel ok with being addressed with that word
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?
Maybe it just shows a person and you have to spell there race
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.
So like, it wasn’t just hiding in the game’s dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?
Unless the game procedurally generates the words from a dictionary
I’m not much of a coder, but even if they’re doing something procedural, it can and should still have a blacklist.
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.
Isn’t that just “giraffe” with a regional accent?
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I’m sorry, “lenchings” is not a word in this puzzle, or the dictionary. Watch this ad to gain another credit and gave another guess.
