Stopped at "bumbershoot" because that's a nonsense Americanism[0] and life's too short to be giving credence to that madness.

[0] https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/11/bumbershoot-it-mean... "the digital archive of the Times of London, comprising 7,696,959 articles published between 1785 and 1985, yields precisely zero hits for bumbershoot"

Please add keyboard controls

Love it, thanks for sharing!

89/100. Missed 4 in the advanced and 7 in the grandmasters. 100 is a lot to get through but hey I did learn 11 new words. There is one word I want to call out which made me laugh because I have felt it is just silly since I first heard my wife use it 30 years ago. Bumpershoot. I only knew the answer because of her. It is what her family calls an umbrella.

This felt like it had the stink of AI on it and I was second-guessing myself about it: I don't play these kinds of trivia / questionnaire type games a lot, so maybe some of what I'm feeling comes from plain unfamiliarity.

But no - other people pointed out the same things I noticed, such as many of the wrong answers being very weird.

This could have been a neat game, but it is ruined by being unrefined AI slop.

I know at least five.

when you don’t know the right answer is always the longest one…

i wonder if multiple choice is the best method to test this. given the ubiquity of LLMs, perhaps an open ended, free text field would be better. that way you’re forced to define the word as you see fit and the LLM checks?

also, some of these words are actually not good ‘obscure vocabulary’ but trivia crap. overall a bit AI slop and too easy.

I got 74,400

You mastered 88 new words!

i can't move onto the next one in the quiz