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  2. Wordle - Wikipedia

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    Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all players attempting to ...

  3. Word game - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Word games are spoken, board, card or video games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties. Word games are generally used as a source of entertainment, but can additionally serve an educational purpose. Young children can enjoy playing games such as Hangman, while naturally developing important language ...

  4. Wikipedia:Department of Fun/Word Association - Wikipedia

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    Main article: Word association. The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing the community of Wikipedians, both young and old editors, with things to make them stay at Wikipedia, indirectly improving the encyclopedia. Below, you can find a fun and simple game to play. Please, if you have ideas for activities or competitions, do not hesitate ...

  5. Vigenère cipher - Wikipedia

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    the first letter a of the plaintext is shifted by 14 positions in the alphabet (because the first letter O of the key is the 14th letter of the alphabet, counting from 0), yielding o; the second letter t is shifted by 2 (because the second letter C of the key means 2) yielding v; the third letter t is shifted by 20 (U) yielding n, with wrap-around;

  6. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Strachey love letter algorithm. In 1952, Christopher Strachey wrote a combinatory algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer which could create love letters. The poems it generated have been seen as the first work of electronic literature [1] and a queer critique of heteronormative expressions of love. [2] [3] [4]

  7. Word ladder - Wikipedia

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    Word ladder. Lewis Carroll's doublet in Vanity Fair, March 1897 changing the word "head" to "tail" in five steps, one letter at a time. Word ladder (also known as Doublets, [1] word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, [2] or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and ...

  8. Randomized algorithm - Wikipedia

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    A randomized algorithm is an algorithm that employs a degree of randomness as part of its logic or procedure. The algorithm typically uses uniformly random bits as an auxiliary input to guide its behavior, in the hope of achieving good performance in the "average case" over all possible choices of random determined by the random bits; thus either the running time, or the output (or both) are ...

  9. List of Google Easter eggs - Wikipedia

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    "play dreidel" or "dreidel" will spin a dreidel, landing on one of four letters of the Hebrew alphabet: נ ‎ , ג ‎ , ה ‎ or ש ‎ . "random number generator" or "rng" will generate a random number. The starting range is between 1 and 10, but the maximum and minimum can be adjusted.