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empathy bug?

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Empathy

#1 · mikabast

27 Jan 2010

ok, maybe i'm stupid, and i totally screwed it, but i'm almost completely sure that i've posted 10 words in the last empathy games (parts of the face), but the detailed results only shows 7 words.

Can it be a bug, or i simply don't know the rules?

#2 · MichaeI X

27 Jan 2010

Are you sure to remember the "10 words were accepted" response to your last post ?

You are not the first one to navigate away from the GoE page without clicking the submit button ;)

There once was a bug that you could get 0 points for an entry (as seen in the "past games", even if it was accepted initially.

#3 · mikabast

27 Jan 2010

i can't remember the accepted message, but i remember my first word was 'lips', which isn't in the past games list, only 7 words are highlighted for me.

#4 · Elisa Kabiljo

27 Jan 2010

Sometime plural arn't highlighted, but are counted. You have to look in 'Past games' to see real score.

#5 · mikabast

27 Jan 2010

yeah, that was the case. some of the plurals weren't highlighted. in the past games list it's correctly listed.

sorry, and thanks for the answers.

#6 · Paavo Pirinen

27 Jan 2010

Well, at least that really is a bug. We have just got used to it.

#7 · Greck

29 Jan 2010

LG is just like life... you just get used to bugs, then it ends :P

#8 · somar96

26 Feb 2010

A similar bug happened to me again - in the last game I'm 100% sure I wrote the word "grass" (as the first one), I submitted it and I got the "10 words were accepted" message. And now it isn't counted. Any ideas why?

#9 · Greck

26 Feb 2010

have you entered "past games" to check which words were accepted and how many points you were awarded for each?

#11 · Elisa Kabiljo

26 Feb 2010

'Past games' page is very big, and it take a long time to open, but with good connection it finaly open for me. With opera mini on mobile phone I can't open it.

#12 · MichaeI X

26 Feb 2010

As most (35/40) others I also entered "grass" and it's not highlighted for me, but counted.

Perhaps someone of those 35 entered "gras" and LG knows the others just used its plural form ?

#13 · somar96

27 Feb 2010

Past games works for me, and grass is there, But the points are ok, so no problem :)

#14 · MRFvR

31 May 2011

Strangely enough, Empathy keeper doesn't recognize feet as the plural for foot: if you try to play 'em both, they will be acepted - I made the test during the "look down" game, undoing it just after I've seen it was accepted. Probably the same would happen with tooth and teeth.

#15 · Aganju

31 May 2011

As discussed before; the code is rather simple, and just considers an 's' at the end a plural. So feets would be consider the plural of feet, and footsthe plural of foot. And grass the plural of gras, plus the plural of plu, and piss the plural of pis. I think you get it.

#16 · MarleysGhost

31 May 2011

GoE knows some irregular plurals, too, e.g. man/men. But its list of irregular plurals is not comprehensive.

#17 · ypercube

31 May 2011

@Aganju: As a result, you can't play a and as at the same game, nor as and ass.

But you can play a and ass :)