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.

Mode

Prompts served

10,540

32,174 attempts · multiplayer

Objectively rated

6,111

of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 4,429 unrated

Enough data to rate

min 20 attempts · next best has 19

Median solve time

3.8 s

n = 29,740 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: 87 of 10,540 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 · 12,233 attempts Familiarsyll 1,001–2,5001,312 / 1,500served at least once · 6,102 attempts Uncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,644 / 2,000served at least once · 3,694 attempts Raresyll 4,501–7,0001,788 / 2,500served at least once · 3,584 attempts Brutalsyll 7,001+367 / 2,217served at least once · 484 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 3.6 s to 6.2 s — a 1.7× 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 band	Prompts	Attempts	Solved	Solve rate	Median solve
1–1,000	1,000	12,233	11,919	97.4%	3.7 s (n=11,919)
1,001–2,000	906	5,261	5,066	96.3%	3.8 s (n=5,066)
2,001–3,000	799	1,626	1,533	94.3%	3.6 s (n=1,533)
3,001–4,000	792	1,567	1,410	90.0%	3.8 s (n=1,410)
4,001–5,000	932	2,725	2,471	90.7%	3.7 s (n=2,471)
5,001–6,000	692	1,120	993	88.7%	4.0 s (n=993)
6,001–7,000	623	1,081	979	90.6%	4.6 s (n=979)
7,001–8,000	256	361	315	87.3%	6.2 s (n=315)
8,001–9,000	105	117	92	78.6%	7.0 s (n=92)
9,001–9,217	6	6	4	66.7%	6.4 s (n=4)

Every prompt

10,540 served · sorted by attempts

Prompts with objective difficulty, attempts, solve rate and median solve time
Prompt	syll	Attempts	Solved	Solve rate	Median solve	Distinct words	Top word
coa	1,146FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.1 sn = 13	8	coal ×3
cot	1,016FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.2 sn = 13	10	scotlandwards ×3
cou	386CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.1 sn = 13	7	cough ×4
cte	790CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	4.9 sn = 12	8	acted ×3
dat	827CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	5.6 sn = 13	7	date ×7
div	1,310FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	2.9 sn = 13	9	xdiv ×4
dol	1,251FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.6 sn = 13	8	doll ×5
dor	1,015FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.3 sn = 13	10	adorable ×4
dra	577CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	3.5 sn = 12	10	docudrama ×2
dre	1,279FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.1 sn = 13	10	dread ×3
dri	777CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.0 sn = 13	8	drink ×4
edu	1,349FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.2 sn = 13	7	educate ×4
ema	292CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	3.8 sn = 12	11	hematospectrophotometer ×2
eng	1,188FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.1 sn = 13	10	english ×4
era	58CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	4.1 sn = 12	8	era ×4
exa	1,304FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.2 sn = 13	8	directexamination ×3
ffi	974CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	5.8 sn = 13	10	office ×2
fin	786CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.6 sn = 13	9	ladysfinger ×3
fla	712CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.4 sn = 13	10	flagella ×2
flu	960CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.0 sn = 13	9	flu ×2
gne	806CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	5.2 sn = 12	8	magnet ×3
gua	1,333FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.4 sn = 13	9	guava ×3
gul	1,139FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.8 sn = 13	9	gulf ×4
hol	369CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.4 sn = 13	11	hole ×3
hyl	765CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	5.1 sn = 12	8	shylockism ×3
iab	1,179FamiliarFamiliar	13	12	not enough datan = 13	3.6 sn = 12	7	diabolification ×3
ibi	891CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	5.1 sn = 13	11	tibia ×2
ido	1,010FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.3 sn = 13	10	idol ×4
ila	628CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	3.6 sn = 12	11	djilanydjin ×2
irc	1,229FamiliarFamiliar	13	12	not enough datan = 13	4.6 sn = 12	9	circumparallelogram ×3
iri	812CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	5.7 sn = 13	9	iris ×3
isa	496CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	5.2 sn = 13	8	pisa ×5
ita	203CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.8 sn = 13	10	contracapitalist ×2
ith	378CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.9 sn = 13	11	hlithskjalf ×3
itt	672CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.9 sn = 13	11	bitterbloom ×2
ked	881CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	2.7 sn = 13	7	baked ×5
llu	922CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	3.2 sn = 12	9	allure ×3
los	458CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	2.6 sn = 13	8	lost ×5
mic	156CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.4 sn = 13	9	microphone ×3
mma	1,063FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.3 sn = 13	12	gamma ×2
mod	1,186FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.0 sn = 13	11	eigenmode ×2
ncy	760CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.5 sn = 13	6	fancy ×4
nde	59CommonCommon	13	12	not enough datan = 13	4.3 sn = 12	9	underoverlooker ×3
net	429CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.3 sn = 13	10	internetworks ×4
niz	403CommonCommon	13	11	not enough datan = 13	4.5 sn = 11	10	ionize ×2
non	17CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.2 sn = 13	11	nonfiction ×2
nto	472CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.6 sn = 13	8	counterpronunciamento ×3
oar	1,250FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.5 sn = 13	7	boar ×4
oba	1,112FamiliarFamiliar	13	13	not enough datan = 13	3.7 sn = 13	8	alterglobalization ×3
odo	587CommonCommon	13	13	not enough datan = 13	4.6 sn = 13	10	odor ×3

10,453 of 10,540 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 87 that clear it, solve rates average 97.9% 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.

4,429 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 4,422 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.