Overall, although my vocab in 5 letter pali words is not as strong as English, the very structure of pali language (much like malay) makes it very easy to deduce some rules.
One should try for the vowels, only 5 since the variants are covered together. The vowels in general don’t have 2 vowels in a row. So getting some position of the vowels would tell us a lot about the structure of the word.
using c for consonant, a for vowel, the general word structure is:
acaca
cacca
cacac
accac
Not that easy to find another structure in the base dictionary for 5 letter words in Pali. Most Pali words have a or i inside them, good to try these 2 vowels out first, and note that there are repeated vowels in many words. Other tips include Ṃ never appears in the front.
When there’s an aspirated consonant in the word, they recognized h individual letter as yellow. (the aspirated letter is in the same position as h.)
It’s better not to recognize h as part of the answer if the answer doesn’t contain h and contains some aspirated consonant.
Also, tip, it might be better to use different words for the next guess to maximize the number of consonants to rule out, even if you got so many greens already. That way instead of ruling out one consonant at a time, one can rule out 3.
Right. With the warning I was trying to scaffold newbies not prevent this advanced strategy. Should the warning be disabled after you get N letters or something?
When I typed c, ch in the selection, they only put yellow on c, the answer contains ch. ch is greyed out. Can it be made so that the aspirated characters also go yellow? Or does it gives wrong impression that if both c and ch goes yellow it implies 2 of the c variants are in the answer?
That’s exactly right. But, perhaps it would be preferable to yellow the closer variant given a choice between two C’s Hadn’t thought of that case. Thanks! [Edit: fixed!]
Thank you for making this. My Pali knowledge definitely isn’t enough to be successful, since I just started learning. But at least I can guess and check if the words exist or not. Thanks Khemarato.bhikkhu
Thanks [Edit: fixed now.]
Hadn’t thought of that case. Thanks! [Edit: fixed!]