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lying_Iiar t1_ix1hyce wrote

This would be way better served by even some simple algorithms.

Think how much time you would save if you even made just one modification:

The first prompt is: "First half of the alphabet?"

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747ER t1_ix1uvjv wrote

They used a specialised alphabet order with the most frequently used letters first

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lying_Iiar t1_ix2a6wu wrote

My intuition suggests it might still be faster to start with that question, but someone would have to run the algo against the most common words, or the book he wrote at least.

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