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Emoji Cats Word Guess Apk

Emoji Cats Word Guess 1.17 APKs

  • Version: 1.17
  • File size: 4.61MB
  • Requires: Android 5.0+
  • Package Name: com.tachyonlabs.emojicatswordguess
  • Developer: Tachyon Labs
  • Updated Aug 07, 2020
  • Price: Free
  • Rate 3.70 stars – based on 10 reviews
Emoji Cats Word Guess Game

Emoji Cats Word Guess is a fast, friendly, and fun word-guessing game featuring a whopping database of about 150,000 words.
So many words makes for gameplay that is always fresh, and guessing one word at a time makes Emoji Cats Word Guess ideal for any time you've got a minute because you're on hold, waiting in line, wanting to do "just one more thing" before starting something you've been procrastinating on, etc. You might enjoy trying to guess a word as quickly as possible, or you might find guessing more slowly to be kind of meditative and soothing. In addition to exercising your brain by figuring out words and recognizing patterns of common letters and letters commonly used together, any time you get an unfamiliar word that you’re curious about, you can just tap it in the endgame popup to see its definition.

“Easier”, “Harder”, and “Swords” dictionary settings
The words you get during gameplay depend on whether you've selected the "easier", "harder", or "swords" dictionary setting:

Emoji Cats Word Guess’s “Easier” dictionary setting uses a 2727-word lightly-edited subset of the “New General Service List”, a public-domain list of “core high frequency vocabulary words for students of English as a second language” compiled in 2013 by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan, and Joseph Phillips. Ease of guessing will vary with word length and more common vs less common letters, but they will all be familiar words.

The “Harder” setting uses a 148220-word lightly-edited subset of the public-domain “Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon” (ENABLE) word list — basically a Scrabble dictionary with the addition of words of more than eight letters as well. The “Easier” words are all here too, but you’ll also find lots of specialized terminology, obscurities, alternate spellings, and so on.

Re “lightly-edited”: First, I only included words equal to or fewer than 12 letters long as a user-interface decision, and second, I didn’t include things (for example slurs and diseases) that you wouldn’t really want unexpectedly popping up in people’s faces during a word game for a general audience.

The “Swords” setting uses a 131-word dictionary of types of swords plus names of named swords both real and fictional, as a bonus feature for anyone who would see “emojicatswordguess” and want to parse it as “Emoji Cat Sword Guess” in addition to “Emoji Cats Word Guess”. ?

Thank you for playing Emoji Cats Word Guess!
Emoji Cats Word Guess began its life as a from-scratch “take home project” as part of qualifying for onsite interviews at a top tech company. I thought that both the project and the resulting onsites went very well, but unfortunately I didn’t get picked for the job. ?

However, I had really liked (and gotten compliments on during the interviews) the “any type of user interface is acceptable” user interface I had come up with, including using emojis because the time constraints made it impractical to create my own graphics. And post-onsites I found myself continuing to pick up my phone and play a few rounds while waiting for a web page to load, app to build, etc.

So I decided to give the game a new life as my second published app (after researching and editing dictionaries for it to use in place of the company’s API). I hope you enjoy Emoji Cats Word Guess too, and again, thanks for playing!

Tané Tachyon
Tachyon Labs

Emoji Cats Word Guess web site: http://tachyonlabs.com/emoji-cats-word-guess/

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