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Game Chatroom
Week 10
You are playing a vintage online game and notice that when people type certain messages, there is a colourful animation
When a message triggers the animation, you copy it, then try each word individually to see which word triggers the animation - here are some words you found that result in the animation
Your colleagues have been unable to spot the rule(s) that determine whether a word is or isn't valid - can you crack it?
From systematically trying each letter, you notice that single-letter words such as "a" are not accepted
The server the chatroom is hosted on is running Ubuntu, so you can assume they are using Ubuntu's list of english words - you should find all words that match the rule from this file
A reminder, if you are completely lost, hints will be released after 24 hours - or you can ask in the various social media groups at the bottom of the page
Hints
Hints will be released at the start of each of the following days - e.g. the start of day 3 is 48 hours after the challenge starts
| Release Day | Hint |
|---|---|
| 2 | Look at the letters in words that are accepted |
| 3 | It might even be useful to write down all of the letters that appear in these examples - how many are there and what is special about them? |
| 4 | You might have noticed they are all valid hexadecimal words - none of the words in this dictionary contain numbers, but these words all contain only the characters 'a' to 'f' |
| 6 |