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	== The AI Opponent ==		== The AI Opponent ==
	The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.		The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust. This AI reuses the exact same underlying word-selection logic and spawn-probability table as [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]'s AI opponents (documented in full on [[AI Bots]]), a shared component rather than a separate implementation — see [[Ghost (Owner)#Design Philosophy\|Ghost's Design Philosophy]] for how this fits into a broader analogy Ghost uses for the relationship between the bot's game modes.

	A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" [[Achievements\|achievement]] the first time it happens to a player.		A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" [[Achievements\|achievement]] the first time it happens to a player.
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	The thread is deleted a flat 3 minutes after the game ends, though the message shown to players describes it more loosely as "3-5 minutes" to leave some buffer.		The thread is deleted a flat 3 minutes after the game ends, though the message shown to players describes it more loosely as "3-5 minutes" to leave some buffer.

			''History:'' if a game's private thread vanished mid-game for any reason (manually deleted, for instance), every subsequent message the bot tried to post into it — including the ones meant to report that very error back to the player — would itself fail the same way, cascading into an unhandled crash that took down the entire <code>/solo_shiritori</code> command rather than just quietly ending that one game. Every message the bot posts into a solo game's thread is now sent through a helper that catches this specific failure and ends the game cleanly instead.

	== Statistics ==		== Statistics ==

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	A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" [[Achievements\|achievement]] the first time it happens to a player.		A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" [[Achievements\|achievement]] the first time it happens to a player.

			'''VOWELLESS''' is a specific exception to the "can't find a word" ending above. Since a word beginning with a vowel can never itself be vowel-free, VOWELLESS is unable to move on a genuinely large share of turns — by design, it is never allowed to fall back to a word containing a vowel just to keep the game going (see [[AI Bots#History\|AI Bots]] for the full mechanic). Rather than ending the game every time this happens, which given how often it comes up would have made VOWELLESS nearly unplayable in Solo Shiritori, the bot instead announces that VOWELLESS "leaves" and is immediately replaced by a freshly-rolled personality (never VOWELLESS or LARP again) that takes the same turn in its place. The game only actually ends in the player's favor if that ''replacement'' personality also can't find a word — an outcome only slightly less rare than any other personality's ordinary failure.

	== Ending a Game ==		== Ending a Game ==

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	The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.		The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.

	A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" ~~title~~ the first time it happens to a player.		A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" [[Achievements\|achievement]] the first time it happens to a player.

	== Ending a Game ==		== Ending a Game ==
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	* [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]		* [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]
	* [[AI Bots]]		* [[AI Bots]]
			* [[Achievements]]

	[[Category:Information]]		[[Category:Information]]
	[[Category:Games(bot)]]		[[Category:Games(bot)]]

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	== Solo Shiritori ==		= Solo Shiritori =

	Solo Shiritori is a private word-chain match played against an AI opponent in a dedicated thread.		Solo Shiritori is a private word-chain match played against an AI opponent in a dedicated thread.

	=== Starting a Game ===		== Starting a Game ==
	A game is created with <code>/solo_shiritori</code>. Only one solo game may be active per player at a time ("You already have an active solo game!"), though a solo game can run alongside an active multiplayer game. The bot creates a private thread, posts a starting word, and begins the AI at the ROOKIE personality.		A game is created with <code>/solo_shiritori</code>. Only one solo game may be active per player at a time ("You already have an active solo game!"), though a solo game can run alongside an active multiplayer game. The bot creates a private thread, posts a starting word, and begins the AI at the ROOKIE personality.

	The thread's rules message differs slightly in wording from multiplayer: "Allowed: Regular words, hyphenated words, acronyms, city names. Not Allowed: Personal names (unless with meaning), or words with non-letter characters."		The thread's rules message differs slightly in wording from multiplayer: "Allowed: Regular words, hyphenated words, acronyms, city names. Not Allowed: Personal names (unless with meaning), or words with non-letter characters."

	=== Rules ===		== Rules ==
	# Each word must start with the final letter of the previous word.		# Each word must start with the final letter of the previous word.
	# A word cannot repeat one already used in that session.		# A word cannot repeat one already used in that session.
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	# Any invalid submission, whether a wrong starting letter, a repeat, or a word not in the dictionary, ends the game immediately; there is no retry within a turn.		# Any invalid submission, whether a wrong starting letter, a repeat, or a word not in the dictionary, ends the game immediately; there is no retry within a turn.

	Valid player words receive a ✅ reaction; invalid ones receive ❌.		Valid player words receive a ✅ reaction; invalid ones receive ❌. A message that starts with <code>!</code>, with any of the multiplayer AI-summon commands (such as <code>!noob</code>), is empty, or carries an attachment or embed instead of text is silently ignored rather than treated as a move — it neither counts as a word nor ends the game.

	=== The AI Opponent ===		== The AI Opponent ==
	The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.		The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.

	A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" title the first time it happens to a player.		A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" title the first time it happens to a player.

	=== Ending a Game ===		== Ending a Game ==
	A session also ends after ~~5 minutes of~~ inactivity: "~~Game ended~~ due to inactivity. ~~You took too long!"~~ When a game ends for any reason, the bot posts a summary showing the number of turns played and the percentage of the dictionary used so far, and the thread is deleted 3 to 5 minutes ~~later~~.		A session also ends after inactivity: if the player goes quiet, the bot posts a 30-second warning ("30 seconds left! Type a word or the game will end due to inactivity") before the 5-minute timeout actually expires, rather than the game simply vanishing without notice.

			When a game ends for any reason, the bot posts a summary showing the number of turns played and the percentage of the dictionary used so far. This turn count covers the ''entire match'' — every word played by both the player and the AI, including the starting word — and is a different figure from the player-specific "rounds played" statistic tracked by <code>/solo_stats</code>, which only counts the player's own successful turns.

			The thread is deleted a flat 3 minutes after the game ends, though the message shown to players describes it more loosely as "3-5 minutes" to leave some buffer.

			== Statistics ==
			Solo Shiritori results are recorded per player: rounds played, hyphens used, apostrophes used, unique words played, and longest word. The player also earns experience toward their level for each valid word played. These stats can be viewed with <code>/solo_stats</code> and compared with <code>/solo_leaderboard</code>, both of which offer a Public/Private visibility choice; the leaderboard can additionally be sorted by Longest Word, Turns Played, or Dictionary Completion.

	==~~= Statistics =~~==		== See also ==
	~~Unlike the solo modes in Word Bomb and Wordle, Solo~~ Shiritori results are recorded. Tracked per player: rounds played, hyphens used, apostrophes used, unique words played, and longest word. The player also earns experience toward their level for each valid word played. These stats can be viewed with <code>/solo_stats</code> and compared with <code>/solo_leaderboard</code>.		* [[Super-Shiritori]]
			* [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]
			* [[AI Bots]]

	[[Category:Information]]		[[Category:Information]]
	[[Category:Games(bot)]]		[[Category:Games(bot)]]

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			== Solo Shiritori ==
			Solo Shiritori is a private word-chain match played against an AI opponent in a dedicated thread.

	== ~~🟣 Solo Shiritori~~ ==		=== Starting a Game ===
	~~Go 1v1 against~~ a ~~learning~~, ~~unpredictable AI in this personal word chain challenge~~. ~~It’s just you~~, ~~your vocabulary~~, and ~~a bot that ''learns your style''~~ the ~~longer you play~~.		A game is created with <code>/solo_shiritori</code>. Only one solo game may be active per player at a time ("You already have an active solo game!"), though a solo game can run alongside an active multiplayer game. The bot creates a private thread, posts a starting word, and begins the AI at the ROOKIE personality.
	~~----~~

	~~=== 🔹 How to Start ===~~		The thread's rules message differs slightly in wording from multiplayer: "Allowed: Regular words, hyphenated words, acronyms, city names. Not Allowed: Personal names (unless with meaning), or words with non-letter characters."

	* Use '''/soloshiritori''' → The bot will create a private thread just for your game. → A ~~random~~ starting word ~~will be posted~~, ~~and~~ the ~~AI will wait for your response~~.		=== Rules ===
			# Each word must start with the final letter of the previous word.
			# A word cannot repeat one already used in that session.
			# A word must be found in the dictionary and contain only letters, hyphens, or apostrophes.
			# Any invalid submission, whether a wrong starting letter, a repeat, or a word not in the dictionary, ends the game immediately; there is no retry within a turn.

	~~Solo games do '''not''' interfere with multiplayer sessions and can be played anytime — even during another game~~.		Valid player words receive a ✅ reaction; invalid ones receive ❌.
	~~----~~

	=== ~~🔹 How to Play~~ ===		=== The AI Opponent ===
			The AI begins as ROOKIE. Its personality can change between turns; the bot tracks the length of the player's most recent words (up to the last 30) together with the number of rounds played to decide whether and how to adjust.

	* Each word you submit must:		A game ends in the AI's favor if the player submits an invalid word. It ends in the player's favor if the AI cannot find any valid word starting with the required letter: "AI ({personality}) couldn't find a valid word starting with '{letter}'. You win!" In an extremely rare case, roughly 1 in 27,963,028, the AI's selected word fails to actually start with the required letter; this is treated as an AI failure, ends the game, and unlocks the "Man Beats Machine" title the first time it happens to a player.
	** Start with the '~~''last letter''' of~~ the ~~previous~~ word.
	** '''~~Not repeat'~~'~~' anything played earlier in that session~~.
	** Be found in ~~the bot’s dictionary (which includes standard words~~, ~~acronyms~~, ~~hyphenated terms, and more).~~
	* After your turn, the AI ~~will respond~~ with a ~~word of its own — if it can~~.

	~~----~~		=== Ending a Game ===
			A session also ends after 5 minutes of inactivity: "Game ended due to inactivity. You took too long!" When a game ends for any reason, the bot posts a summary showing the number of turns played and the percentage of the dictionary used so far, and the thread is deleted 3 to 5 minutes later.

	=== ~~🧠 About the AI Opponent~~ ===		=== Statistics ===
			Unlike the solo modes in Word Bomb and Wordle, Solo Shiritori results are recorded. Tracked per player: rounds played, hyphens used, apostrophes used, unique words played, and longest word. The player also earns experience toward their level for each valid word played. These stats can be viewed with <code>/solo_stats</code> and compared with <code>/solo_leaderboard</code>.

	* The AI starts off at '''Rookie''' level — basic strategy, common words.
	* As the game progresses, it adapts:
	** It learns your playstyle.
	** It randomly adjusts its difficulty, sometimes using advanced logic or even niche words.

	~~Think of it as a shapeshifter — you never quite know what version of the bot you’ll get next.~~
	~~----~~

	~~=== 🛑 How the Game Ends ===~~
	~~Your solo session ends if:~~

	* You play an invalid word (wrong starting letter, repeat, or not in dictionary).
	* You’re inactive for '''5 minutes'''.
	* You give up or close the thread.

	~~You can always start a new session immediately after.~~
	~~----~~

	~~=== 🧩 Tips for Solo Mastery ===~~

	* Use '''/check''' before you risk an unknown word — better safe than sorry.
	* Trick the AI with short, weirdly-ending words like "xylophone" or "fjord".
	* Don’t rely too much on patterns — it learns faster than you'd expect.
	* If you lose, don’t stress — solo mode is built to ''make you better''.
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	* Don’t rely too much on patterns — it learns faster than you'd expect.		* Don’t rely too much on patterns — it learns faster than you'd expect.
	* If you lose, don’t stress — solo mode is built to ''make you better''.		* If you lose, don’t stress — solo mode is built to ''make you better''.
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	== 🟣 Solo Shiritori ==		== 🟣 Solo Shiritori ==
	~~'''~~Go ~~head-to-head with~~ a ~~shapeshifting~~ AI in a ~~battle of words.~~'''		Go 1v1 against a learning, unpredictable AI in this personal word chain challenge. It’s just you, your vocabulary, and a bot that ''learns your style'' the longer you play.
			----

	=== 🔹 How to Start ===		=== 🔹 How to Start ===
	~~'''~~Use~~'''~~ '''/soloshiritori''' ~~— this creates~~ a private thread just for ~~you~~ and the ~~bot~~.
			* Use '''/soloshiritori''' → The bot will create a private thread just for your game. → A random starting word will be posted, and the AI will wait for your response.

			Solo games do '''not''' interfere with multiplayer sessions and can be played anytime — even during another game.
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	=== 🔹 How to Play ===		=== 🔹 How to Play ===

	* ~~Follow the same rules as in [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]~~:		* Each word you submit must:
	** ~~Your word must start~~ with the '''last letter''' of the previous word.		** Start with the '''last letter''' of the previous word.
	** '''~~No repeats~~''' ~~allowed~~.		** '''Not repeat''' anything played earlier in that session.
	* ~~You'll face off against~~ a ~~dynamic~~ AI ~~opponent:~~		** Be found in the bot’s dictionary (which includes standard words, acronyms, hyphenated terms, and more).
	** Starts as a '''Rookie''', ~~but~~ adapts ~~based on~~ your ~~skill level and strategy~~.		* After your turn, the AI will respond with a word of its own — if it can.
	** ~~Sometimes acts~~ randomly..~~. just to keep things spicy.~~
	* The game ends if:		----
	** You ~~make a mistake (~~invalid word or wrong letter).
	** You can’t respond.		=== 🧠 About the AI Opponent ===
	** '''5 minutes''' ~~pass without a valid word~~.
			* The AI starts off at '''Rookie''' level — basic strategy, common words.
			* As the game progresses, it adapts:
			** It learns your playstyle.
			** It randomly adjusts its difficulty, sometimes using advanced logic or even niche words.

			Think of it as a shapeshifter — you never quite know what version of the bot you’ll get next.
			----

			=== 🛑 How the Game Ends ===
			Your solo session ends if:

			* You play an invalid word (wrong starting letter, repeat, or not in dictionary).
			* You’re inactive for '''5 minutes'''.
			* You give up or close the thread.

			You can always start a new session immediately after.
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	=== ~~🔸 Strategy~~ Tips ===		=== 🧩 Tips for Solo Mastery ===

	* Use '''/check''' if you~~'re unsure a~~ word ~~is allowed~~.		* Use '''/check''' before you risk an unknown word — better safe than sorry.
	* ~~Try mixing long and~~ short words ~~to confuse the AI’s prediction logic~~.		* Trick the AI with short, weirdly-ending words like "xylophone" or "fjord".
	* Don’t ~~rush take time to think~~, ~~but~~ don’t ~~hit that 5-minute limit!~~		* Don’t rely too much on patterns — it learns faster than you'd expect.
			* If you lose, don’t stress — solo mode is built to ''make you better''.

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== 🟣 Solo Shiritori ==
'''Go head-to-head with a shapeshifting AI in a battle of words.'''

=== 🔹 How to Start ===
'''Use''' '''/soloshiritori''' — this creates a private thread just for you and the bot.
----

=== 🔹 How to Play ===

* Follow the same rules as in [[Multiplayer Shiritori]]:
** Your word must start with the '''last letter''' of the previous word.
** '''No repeats''' allowed.
* You'll face off against a dynamic AI opponent:
** Starts as a '''Rookie''', but adapts based on your skill level and strategy.
** Sometimes acts randomly... just to keep things spicy.
* The game ends if:
** You make a mistake (invalid word or wrong letter).
** You can’t respond.
** '''5 minutes''' pass without a valid word.

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=== 🔸 Strategy Tips ===

* Use '''/check''' if you're unsure a word is allowed.
* Try mixing long and short words to confuse the AI’s prediction logic.
* Don’t rush take time to think, but don’t hit that 5-minute limit!