It also doesn't get hard enough. Also way too many of the words are just words about long words, or the tendency to be verbose.
It also doesn't get hard enough. Also way too many of the words are just words about long words, or the tendency to be verbose.
Level 5 grandmaster was hardcore!
I got zeitgeist, panacea and obfuscate on Level 5... wut?
Some at Level 4 was definitely a lot more obscure than those.
How jejune of you.
It does get hard enough but only in the very last fraction.
Zenzizenzizenzic for example.
If I had to write out the definition, I’d have been screwed. The recursive structure of the word makes it out as a child’s word or something from mathematics. Given where it is in the game, that left one answer out of the four.
It gets impossible. Yarborough is apparently not a town in England. I guess technically it's a village but come on...
> It also doesn't get hard enough
Oh come on! Like you really knew what "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is?
I thought that one was pretty well known. But then, I can also rattle off Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch at will.
But why?
say what you like about antidisestablishmentarianism; at least it's an ethos
Somebody obviously coined the word as a self-referential joke. And somehow it stuck. That makes it memorable.
Speaking of things that stick... arachibutyrophobia is the feat of getting peanut putter stuck to the roof of your mouth. (I admit I had to look that one up, as it's not nearly as memorable, though I knew the word existed).
They are Welsh?
I too can say it and I'm very English...ish. LlanPG is a tourist attraction and a great example of an amateur advertising idea smashing it!
That's round 2 of England's established church problems. Not as bad as round 1, where the Catholic church was violently disestablished by Henry VIII so he could divorce his wife. Cromwell told the Catholics they could go "to hell or to Carna". I've been to Carna. It's bleak.
It's hard to disestablish a religion. Too many people believe. In Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church came back after Communism went down. Now Putin uses it to reinforce his rule.
> so he could divorce his wife
That’s the schoolyard version of the story. In reality dissatisfaction with the church hierarchy had been simmering for some time, both in England and in Europe. Henry wouldn’t have gotten away with the split if it hadn’t enjoyed widespread support from the general public, the political class and the aristocracy.
The real question is, do you know what it means?
:D I did better than expected, but I did miss that one. I learned some fun ones.
Based on only missing that one, it figured out. I knew 83,000 words. That seems unsupportable
Lol. Yeah. Non native here but gave up at about 50 words. Too many words, too easy. And my English SUCKS
If you gave up at 50, that means you skipped the difficult words.
True. I tried a few more times. There is just so much wrong with the design. First 90 words super easy and then super hard? Why not random? Why is the longest description the correct one? Why so many? Why 3 clicks?
Agree. Complexity for me skyrocketed towards the end
Yes - a very marked step rather than a gradual increase, I thought.