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

13,051

70,211 attempts · all games

Objectively rated

7,876

of 9,217 in tea-bot's list · 5,175 unrated

Enough data to rate

563

min 20 attempts · next best has 19

Median solve time

3.1 s

n = 66,283 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: 563 of 13,051 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 · 20,469 attempts Familiarsyll 1,001–2,5001,497 / 1,500served at least once · 13,410 attempts Uncommonsyll 2,501–4,5001,990 / 2,000served at least once · 10,775 attempts Raresyll 4,501–7,0002,466 / 2,500served at least once · 11,841 attempts Brutalsyll 7,001+923 / 2,217served at least once · 6,469 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 78.4% 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	20,469	19,882	97.1%	3.4 s (n=19,882)
1,001–2,000	998	10,546	10,138	96.1%	3.1 s (n=10,138)
2,001–3,000	995	5,627	5,399	95.9%	2.7 s (n=5,399)
3,001–4,000	995	4,830	4,540	94.0%	2.7 s (n=4,540)
4,001–5,000	998	6,463	6,038	93.4%	2.7 s (n=6,038)
5,001–6,000	988	4,578	4,234	92.5%	2.8 s (n=4,234)
6,001–7,000	979	3,982	3,802	95.5%	2.8 s (n=3,802)
7,001–8,000	739	6,268	6,140	98.0%	2.7 s (n=6,140)
8,001–9,000	151	167	131	78.4%	7.4 s (n=131)
9,001–9,217	33	34	31	91.2%	2.1 s (n=31)

Every prompt

1,497 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
rew	1,350FamiliarFamiliar	19	18	not enough datan = 19	3.8 sn = 18	13	brew ×2
tam	1,028FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.9 sn = 19	12	tam ×6
uit	1,027FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.9 sn = 19	14	bananaquit ×4
urs	1,049FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.4 sn = 19	10	cloudburst ×5
van	1,045FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.1 sn = 19	11	vancouver ×6
vil	1,335FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	2.5 sn = 19	12	swingdevil ×5
wis	1,013FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.2 sn = 19	12	wisdom ×5
zer	1,068FamiliarFamiliar	19	19	not enough datan = 19	3.6 sn = 19	11	rizzer ×4
asp	1,306FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	11	wasp ×6
atc	1,216FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.5 sn = 18	11	catcall ×3
bea	1,065FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.3 sn = 18	12	bea ×2
bia	1,042FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.4 sn = 18	7	bias ×6
blo	1,240FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.8 sn = 18	11	blow ×5
boa	1,308FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	10	boat ×4
boo	1,265FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.7 sn = 18	9	overbookishness ×4
coe	1,322FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	5.5 sn = 18	10	coe ×4
ecr	1,171FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.9 sn = 18	14	recreate ×3
fol	1,363FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.6 sn = 18	11	foliage ×3
fro	1,342FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.2 sn = 18	13	from ×4
gue	1,131FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.8 sn = 17	11	guess ×5
hae	1,294FamiliarFamiliar	18	15	not enough datan = 18	4.1 sn = 15	7	hae ×7
iab	1,179FamiliarFamiliar	18	14	not enough datan = 18	3.8 sn = 14	8	diabolification ×3
ira	1,014FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.2 sn = 18	10	iran ×5
lai	1,181FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	8	laid ×8
loi	1,190FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.8 sn = 17	9	loin ×4
mba	1,254FamiliarFamiliar	18	16	not enough datan = 18	4.9 sn = 16	6	combat ×4
ncr	1,351FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	5.0 sn = 18	13	concrfsce ×4
ndu	1,007FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.1 sn = 18	12	indus ×5
nea	1,020FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.2 sn = 18	12	nearsighted ×5
nem	1,021FamiliarFamiliar	18	15	not enough datan = 18	3.8 sn = 15	7	nemesis ×6
neo	1,260FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.1 sn = 18	10	neon ×5
ngr	1,249FamiliarFamiliar	18	16	not enough datan = 18	3.9 sn = 16	12	angry ×4
nli	1,238FamiliarFamiliar	18	16	not enough datan = 18	3.2 sn = 16	13	online ×2
oke	1,154FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	13	slowpoke ×6
onn	1,198FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.6 sn = 17	11	bluebonnet ×5
ook	1,067FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	13	tahgook ×3
pac	1,051FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.4 sn = 18	9	pack ×6
psi	1,246FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.4 sn = 18	10	psi ×5
rar	1,344FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.0 sn = 17	7	rarity ×6
run	1,330FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.1 sn = 17	11	run ×3
set	1,297FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	3.2 sn = 18	13	datasetname ×4
sla	1,174FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.3 sn = 17	9	slap ×6
smi	1,221FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	4.1 sn = 18	11	smile ×3
tip	1,120FamiliarFamiliar	18	18	not enough datan = 18	2.9 sn = 18	7	tip ×7
tot	1,073FamiliarFamiliar	18	17	not enough datan = 18	3.0 sn = 17	8	totally ×5
uch	1,135FamiliarFamiliar	18	16	not enough datan = 18	3.3 sn = 16	9	much ×6
ylo	1,069FamiliarFamiliar	18	15	not enough datan = 18	4.0 sn = 15	10	payload ×5
yri	1,324FamiliarFamiliar	18	16	not enough datan = 18	3.5 sn = 16	10	myriad ×6
aba	1,110FamiliarFamiliar	17	17	not enough datan = 17	4.5 sn = 17	13	babajaga ×3
aly	1,228FamiliarFamiliar	17	16	not enough datan = 17	4.4 sn = 16	8	aly ×6

12,488 of 13,051 prompts sit below the 20-attempt floor and show no rate. Among the 563 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.

5,175 prompts are Unrated — not easy, just absent from prompts.txt. 5,159 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.