Anagram

Anagram is a private, single-player game in which the objective is to find as many valid words as possible using the letters of a randomly chosen base word, within a time limit.

Starting a Game

A game is created with /anagram, which takes no parameters. The bot selects a base word between 11 and 20 letters long, containing no hyphens or apostrophes; if the selected word doesn't have at least 5 possible answers, a different base word is chosen instead. The bot creates a private thread, posts the base word along with a difficulty label based on its length, and starts a 1-hour timer: "You have 1 hour to find as many words as possible."

Rules

A valid guess must:

Be at least 2 letters long
Contain no hyphens or apostrophes
Use only letters that appear in the base word, no more times than they appear there
Be a word in the dictionary

The base word itself does not count as a guess and receives no reaction if submitted. Each other guess receives a reaction:

✅ a new, valid word
🟦 a word already found (duplicate; does not count again)
❌ invalid (not a real word, not possible from the base word's letters, or contains punctuation)

Progress

The game's summary message updates after every correct word, refreshing as a new message every 21 words found (or immediately upon finding every possible word), so it does not scroll out of view in a busy thread.

Ending a Game

The game ends automatically after 1 hour. At that point, the bot reports the number of words found out of the total possible, using "🎉 Congratulations!" if completion reached at least 80%, and "⏰ Time's Up!" otherwise. If any words were missed, a text file listing them (up to 5,000) is attached; 100% completion instead gets "You found every possible word! 🏆"

Statistics

Tracked per player: games played, total words found, total words missed, best single-game word count, best completion percentage, average completion percentage, and average words per game. The bot separately tracks whether a player has ever reached 100% completion or at least 51% completion in a game. These stats can be viewed with /anagram_stats and compared with /anagram_leaderboard.

Scale

The number of distinct letter arrangements theoretically possible from a base word vastly exceeds both the bot's dictionary and what a player could realistically submit in an hour. This is illustrative only: it assumes every arrangement of a word's letters is itself a valid word, which is not true, and assumes a base word with no repeated letters, which maximizes the count. Treated this way, the number of distinct arrangements from 2 letters up to the full word length grows factorially with base word length, far outpacing both the bot's roughly one-million-word dictionary and the 3,600 words a player could submit at one word per second for the full hour (ignoring Discord's rate limits):

Base word length	Theoretical maximum arrangements	Multiple of the real dictionary (~1,000,000 words)	Reachable at 1 word/second for the full hour
11	108,505,100	108.5×	3.318 × 10⁻³%
12	1,302,061,332	1,302.1×	2.765 × 10⁻⁴%
13	16,926,797,472	16,926.8×	2.127 × 10⁻⁵%
14	236,975,164,790	236,975.2×	1.519 × 10⁻⁶%
15	3,554,627,472,060	3,554,627.5×	1.013 × 10⁻⁷%
16	56,874,039,553,200	56,874,039.6×	6.330 × 10⁻⁹%
17	966,858,672,404,672	966,858,672.4×	3.723 × 10⁻¹⁰%
18	17,403,456,103,284,402	17,403,456,103.3×	2.069 × 10⁻¹¹%
19	330,665,665,962,403,980	330,665,665,962.4×	1.089 × 10⁻¹²%
20	6,613,313,319,248,079,980	6,613,313,319,248.1×	5.444 × 10⁻¹⁴%

The theoretical space roughly increases by a factor of about 12 to 20 with each additional letter in the base word, consistent with factorial growth. Even at the shortest possible base word length (11 letters), this theoretical figure already exceeds the bot's entire dictionary more than a hundredfold.