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
10,025
28,067 attempts · multiplayer
Objectively rated
5,600
of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 4,425 unrated
Enough data to rate
68
min 20 attempts · next best has 19
Median solve time
3.9 s
n = 25,718 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: 68 of 10,025 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 · 10,787 attemptsFamiliarsyll 1,001–2,5001,088 / 1,500served at least once · 4,721 attemptsUncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,405 / 2,000served at least once · 2,720 attemptsRaresyll 4,501–7,0001,740 / 2,500served at least once · 3,306 attemptsBrutalsyll 7,001+367 / 2,217served at least once · 480 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 86.7% and 97.3% 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
1–1,0001,00010,78710,49597.3%3.8 s (n=10,495)
1,001–2,0007934,2424,05895.7%3.9 s (n=4,058)
2,001–3,00059493184791.0%3.5 s (n=847)
3,001–4,0006701,10595886.7%3.7 s (n=958)
4,001–5,0008942,3512,11489.9%3.7 s (n=2,114)
5,001–6,0006681,05393288.5%4.1 s (n=932)
6,001–7,0006141,06596590.6%4.5 s (n=965)
7,001–8,00025636031587.5%6.2 s (n=315)
8,001–9,0001051149280.7%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
ema292Common11not enough datan = 113.8 sn = 10
ept521Common11not enough datan = 114.7 sn = 10
ero81Common11not enough datan = 115.8 sn = 11
erv579Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
eta306Common11not enough datan = 116.2 sn = 10
ffi974Common11not enough datan = 115.8 sn = 11
fic460Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
flo836Common11not enough datan = 115.7 sn = 11
gen137Common11not enough datan = 113.5 sn = 11
gne806Common11not enough datan = 114.5 sn = 10
gro961Common11not enough datan = 113.1 sn = 11
hal223Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
hom743Common11not enough datan = 114.4 sn = 11
hot612Common11not enough datan = 113.6 sn = 10
ige990Common11not enough datan = 114.5 sn = 10
iol711Common11not enough datan = 115.7 sn = 10
iri812Common11not enough datan = 114.6 sn = 11
isa496Common11not enough datan = 115.2 sn = 11
ish102Common11not enough datan = 114.3 sn = 10
iso487Common11not enough datan = 114.6 sn = 11
ith378Common11not enough datan = 114.9 sn = 11
ked881Common11not enough datan = 112.7 sn = 11
lla187Common11not enough datan = 114.3 sn = 11
lot650Common11not enough datan = 113.4 sn = 9
med548Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
mic156Common11not enough datan = 113.7 sn = 11
min94Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 11
ndi196Common11not enough datan = 115.2 sn = 11
ngi634Common11not enough datan = 114.5 sn = 11
nte34Common11not enough datan = 114.7 sn = 11
oco616Common11not enough datan = 113.6 sn = 11
oid189Common11not enough datan = 114.3 sn = 10
ola391Common11not enough datan = 113.5 sn = 11
oli141Common11not enough datan = 113.8 sn = 11
olu940Common11not enough datan = 114.2 sn = 11
omo364Common11not enough datan = 115.0 sn = 10
ond299Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
ons69Common11not enough datan = 114.9 sn = 11
onv959Common11not enough datan = 113.5 sn = 10
opa644Common11not enough datan = 115.3 sn = 10
opo468Common11not enough datan = 116.0 sn = 10
osi206Common11not enough datan = 113.3 sn = 11
oss609Common11not enough datan = 113.7 sn = 11
ote427Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
out163Common11not enough datan = 112.6 sn = 11
pha164Common11not enough datan = 113.9 sn = 11
pho93Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11
pte792Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
rad390Common11not enough datan = 114.0 sn = 11
ras416Common11not enough datan = 113.2 sn = 11

9,957 of 10,025 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 68 that clear it, solve rates average 97.8% across a 90%–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.

4,425 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 4,418 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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