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

13,065

71,017 attempts · all games

Objectively rated

7,882

of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 5,183 unrated

Enough data to rate

577

min 20 attempts · next best has 19

Median solve time

3.1 s

n = 67,066 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: 577 of 13,065 prompts clear it in all games. 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 · 20,562 attempts Familiarsyll 1,001–2,5001,497 / 1,500served at least once · 13,553 attempts Uncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,991 / 2,000served at least once · 11,003 attempts Raresyll 4,501–7,0002,469 / 2,500served at least once · 12,106 attempts Brutalsyll 7,001+925 / 2,217served at least once · 6,533 attempts

Difficulty against the clock

Median solve time and sample size, over ten bands of the syll index

Median solve time by prompt difficulty

All games · 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 9 bands with at least 100 timed solves, median solve time runs 2.7 s to 7.4 s — a 2.8× spread, while the solve rate stays between 78.0% and 98.0% 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): 9k+ (n=31).

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	20,562	19,972	97.1%	3.4 s (n=19,972)
1,001–2,000	998	10,633	10,223	96.1%	3.1 s (n=10,223)
2,001–3,000	996	5,734	5,505	96.0%	2.7 s (n=5,505)
3,001–4,000	995	4,947	4,648	94.0%	2.7 s (n=4,648)
4,001–5,000	998	6,577	6,152	93.5%	2.7 s (n=6,152)
5,001–6,000	989	4,679	4,331	92.6%	2.8 s (n=4,331)
6,001–7,000	981	4,092	3,911	95.6%	2.8 s (n=3,911)
7,001–8,000	741	6,331	6,203	98.0%	2.7 s (n=6,203)
8,001–9,000	151	168	131	78.0%	7.4 s (n=131)
9,001–9,217	33	34	31	91.2%	2.1 s (n=31)

Every prompt

1,000 matching · 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
hom	743CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.8 sn = 19	13	home ×6
hoo	762CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.0 sn = 19	14	hoot ×3
hot	612CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.1 sn = 18	10	hot ×8
ict	788CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.7 sn = 18	13	extradictionary ×5
ien	583CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.0 sn = 19	11	science ×4
ina	83CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	4.4 sn = 18	11	mina ×4
iza	396CommonCommon	19	16	not enough datan = 19	2.9 sn = 16	10	pizazz ×3
ker	300CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.8 sn = 18	12	cracker ×3
lop	676CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.4 sn = 18	11	lopsided ×7
man	73CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 18	12	man ×5
met	113CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 19	9	met ×6
mor	320CommonCommon	19	17	not enough datan = 19	2.6 sn = 17	7	smorebro ×6
nap	996CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.1 sn = 19	8	snipsnapsnorum ×7
nat	99CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.5 sn = 19	13	preternatural ×4
nda	562CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 19	11	sandalwoods ×4
nos	501CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.7 sn = 19	10	nosegaylike ×4
nto	472CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	4.4 sn = 19	10	counterpronunciamento ×4
oid	189CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	4.3 sn = 18	14	void ×3
omi	254CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	4.9 sn = 18	11	coming ×4
oro	389CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	4.0 sn = 18	10	moron ×6
orp	625CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.5 sn = 19	10	corporate ×4
osc	656CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 19	12	moscow ×6
osi	206CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 19	9	photopositive ×4
ott	892CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.4 sn = 19	14	cottage ×3
out	163CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.6 sn = 19	10	out ×6
owe	816CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	4.4 sn = 19	11	owe ×6
pol	262CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 19	13	polish ×4
ram	319CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	2.7 sn = 18	11	ram ×4
ran	61CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.1 sn = 18	15	ran ×2
rge	831CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 18	10	barge ×5
rim	660CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.8 sn = 19	13	rim ×4
rmo	789CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	4.3 sn = 19	11	armor ×8
roc	267CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.7 sn = 19	7	rock ×10
sca	498CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.4 sn = 18	13	scar ×3
sel	626CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	4.5 sn = 19	13	selfmovement ×4
spa	665CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 18	13	sparkplug ×3
sph	830CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.7 sn = 19	10	sphere ×10
spi	421CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 19	15	spider ×3
sur	547CommonCommon	19	18	not enough datan = 19	2.9 sn = 18	14	surefire ×4
tal	129CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 19	16	microcryptocrystalline ×2
tee	985CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 19	11	tee ×5
tro	82CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	4.1 sn = 19	16	trophy ×3
tru	538CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.1 sn = 19	13	trust ×4
una	425CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.3 sn = 19	10	tuna ×4
unm	853CommonCommon	19	17	not enough datan = 19	2.1 sn = 17	7	gunman ×5
uns	191CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.8 sn = 19	11	unstable ×5
uri	241CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.7 sn = 19	11	urine ×5
vol	939CommonCommon	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.8 sn = 19	12	abvolt ×6
adi	361CommonCommon	18	16	not enough datan = 18	5.2 sn = 16	9	fading ×4
agg	920CommonCommon	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.1 sn = 18	13	aggregate ×3

12,488 of 13,065 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 577 that clear it, solve rates average 97.2% across a 71%–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.

5,183 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 5,167 of them are the wrong length for the list, which only covers 3-letter fragments; custom games can set any prompt length. The other 16 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.