Prompts

Every fragment tea-bot has ever served, ranked by the one difficulty measure that is not circular: its position in the bot’s own prompt list. What players did with it comes second, and only once there is enough of it to mean anything.

Prompts served
10,343
30,742 attempts · multiplayer
Objectively rated
5,915
of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 4,428 unrated
Enough data to rate
84
min 20 attempts · next best has 19
Median solve time
3.8 s
n = 28,325 solved turns

How difficulty is decided here

Two rules, both of which the previous version of this page broke

syll is the objective difficulty

tea-bot draws prompts from prompts.txt, a file of 9,217 three-letter fragments ordered easiest to hardest. The line number is the difficulty: ing is line 1. That number is fixed by the bot before anyone plays, so it cannot be bent by who happened to draw the prompt.

Lines 9,166 and up exist in the file but sit past the bot’s selection ceiling — 52 prompts it can never choose.

A rate needs a denominator

An observed solve rate is printed only once a prompt has at least 20 attempts in the current scope. Below that you get the raw count and the words “not enough data” — never a percentage, and never a zero.

On this data that is a brutal filter: 84 of 10,343 prompts clear it in multiplayer. The old site applied no floor at all, then bucketed prompts by array index, and so labelled 2,729 of its 2,750 prompts “Easy”.

“Solved” means survived, not correct

tea-bot writes a turn to the log only when the turn ends. Rejected and invalid guesses are never recorded at all, so this rate measures turns survived inside the timer, not first-guess accuracy.

A player who typed nine wrong words and then a right one appears here identically to one who got it first try. That is why solve rate sits in the nineties nearly everywhere, and why solve time is the measure worth reading.

Commonsyll 1–1,0001,000 / 1,000served at least once · 11,891 attemptsFamiliarsyll 1,001–2,5001,229 / 1,500served at least once · 5,608 attemptsUncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,537 / 2,000served at least once · 3,156 attemptsRaresyll 4,501–7,0001,782 / 2,500served at least once · 3,529 attemptsBrutalsyll 7,001+367 / 2,217served at least once · 482 attempts

Difficulty against the clock

Median solve time and sample size, over ten bands of the syll index

Median solve time by prompt difficulty

Multiplayer · prompts grouped into ten bands of the objective syll index. Hollow points are bands with fewer than 100 timed solves behind them.

Attempts behind each band

Across the 8 bands with at least 100 timed solves, median solve time runs 3.5 s to 6.2 s — a 1.8× spread, while the solve rate stays between 87.3% and 97.4% throughout. Almost every prompt eventually gets answered, so how often one was survived separates them barely at all. Ranking by that is how the old site put 2,729 of 2,750 prompts in a single “Easy” bucket.

Provisional bands (fewer than 100 timed solves): 8–9k (n=92), 9k+ (n=4).

View as table
Attempts, solve rate and median solve time by syll difficulty band
syll bandPromptsAttemptsSolvedSolve rateMedian solve
1–1,0001,00011,89111,58097.4%3.7 s (n=11,580)
1,001–2,0008594,9304,73896.1%3.8 s (n=4,738)
2,001–3,0007331,2991,20993.1%3.5 s (n=1,209)
3,001–4,0007231,2591,10787.9%3.7 s (n=1,107)
4,001–5,0009182,6042,35090.2%3.7 s (n=2,350)
5,001–6,0006921,12099388.7%4.0 s (n=993)
6,001–7,0006231,08197990.6%4.6 s (n=979)
7,001–8,00025636131587.3%6.2 s (n=315)
8,001–9,0001051159280.0%7.0 s (n=92)
9,001–9,21766466.7%6.4 s (n=4)

Every prompt

1,000 matching · sorted by attempts

Clear
Prompts with objective difficulty, attempts, solve rate and median solve time
PromptsyllAttemptsSolve rateMedian solve
ffe904Common7not enough datan = 75.3 sn = 6
gas999Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
ged884Common7not enough datan = 73.5 sn = 7
gin417Common7not enough datan = 74.5 sn = 7
hop913Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
ifo721Common7not enough datan = 79.8 sn = 7
iou280Common7not enough datan = 74.2 sn = 7
ist13Common7not enough datan = 74.7 sn = 7
iti54Common7not enough datan = 74.1 sn = 7
lic160Common7not enough datan = 74.2 sn = 7
lig605Common7not enough datan = 73.0 sn = 7
lio658Common7not enough datan = 74.0 sn = 7
mag936Common7not enough datan = 73.9 sn = 7
mal374Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
mpa859Common7not enough datan = 73.9 sn = 6
nta142Common7not enough datan = 74.6 sn = 7
ore178Common7not enough datan = 73.0 sn = 7
ose271Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
oso951Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
ost119Common7not enough datan = 73.1 sn = 7
pec720Common7not enough datan = 75.5 sn = 6
pel906Common7not enough datan = 74.0 sn = 7
pod871Common7not enough datan = 73.5 sn = 7
ral161Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
reb902Common7not enough datan = 73.4 sn = 7
ree337Common7not enough datan = 72.9 sn = 6
reo935Common7not enough datan = 74.8 sn = 5
rev744Common7not enough datan = 72.4 sn = 7
rit171Common7not enough datan = 75.0 sn = 7
rod799Common7not enough datan = 72.9 sn = 7
roi934Common7not enough datan = 73.4 sn = 7
sce589Common7not enough datan = 73.4 sn = 7
sen402Common7not enough datan = 73.6 sn = 7
sly405Common7not enough datan = 73.3 sn = 6
sma759Common7not enough datan = 73.7 sn = 7
sop980Common7not enough datan = 75.7 sn = 7
tas856Common7not enough datan = 74.9 sn = 7
ten147Common7not enough datan = 73.4 sn = 7
tis148Common7not enough datan = 74.3 sn = 7
tor45Common7not enough datan = 72.8 sn = 7
tos615Common7not enough datan = 74.0 sn = 7
tyl926Common7not enough datan = 76.0 sn = 5
uck995Common7not enough datan = 74.1 sn = 7
ult394Common7not enough datan = 73.4 sn = 7
vis742Common7not enough datan = 73.3 sn = 7
aca833Common6not enough datan = 64.5 sn = 6
agg920Common6not enough datan = 64.7 sn = 6
app408Common6not enough datan = 64.1 sn = 6
ard162Common6not enough datan = 64.1 sn = 6
ari48Common6not enough datan = 63.6 sn = 6

10,259 of 10,343 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 84 that clear it, solve rates average 97.8% across a 85%–100% range — a narrow band, which is why the syll index and not the rate is the primary sort. Sorting by solve rate or median solve time ranks only prompts at or above the floor; below it the numbers are still printed with their n, but a one-sample median is not a ranking.

4,428 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 4,421 of them are the wrong length for the list, which only covers 3-letter fragments; custom games can set any prompt length. The other 7 are 3-letter oddities: Cyrillic homoglyph spoofs that look like Latin letters, blanks-mode prompts carrying a wildcard character, and a little junk. Show them

Three modes are missing on purpose. Red, Green and Yellow Tea score whole rounds rather than turns, so tea-bot logs them as round submissions: no response time, and — unlike turns — rejected words are kept. Their “solved” means first-guess validity, not surviving the timer. Folding two different definitions into one rate would be worse than leaving them out, so they are left out.

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