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I loaded the puzzle and was presented with an empty 7 character prompt. I tried typing in three different seven-letter words, and each time I hit "GO", I was told the word was "Not in the word list".

With no further guidance given, I closed the tab.

Thanks for the feedback. I've taken all the 7 letter words from the dictionary and filtered based on different criteria. I'm still thinking what's the easiest automated way to have all valid words, while avoiding offensive, inappropriate ones.

I'm genuinely curious, what's the reason for filtering out words based on offensive-ness?

I'd imagine it'd be easier to screen the chosen word every day for your criteria and, beyond that, let people type whatever they want as long as what they type is in the dictionary

Yeah. True. Now that you say. Might not be an actual reason. I'll probably load the full dictionary (i have) in the next release.

Similar issue, my first guess was "plaudit" and it was not accepted

Had a similar issue, several of my words weren't accepted.

Now it allows all 7 letters english words. Apparently 32k words.

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