Week 2 Update
It's been one week since the last update, and two weeks since launch! That means it's time for some news and updates!
Some Stats
First off, some stats! As of this writing we're at 9372 monkeys!! The monkey text has ballooned our backend database to nearly 100GB of mostly entirely gibberish. But under our noses, these monkeys have been very productive.
In fact, they've written ALL the two and three-letter long words that in Shakespeare's works! Not just discovered each word, but completed every instance of those words! This includes words like "the" and "you", which occur 29,521 and 13,965 times respectively - and even the weird ones like "pip" and "tan" which each only are found once (in Taming of the Shrew and Sonnet 115)
New Goals
Now that we've completed these two and three letter words, our sights are now set on the four-letter words. As of this writing, we're already 93% of the way there in fact! We've added a new tracker to the bottom of the page which contains the current goal:
Clicking on it will show you more details about the words we still need to complete. You'll see that of the 1925 unique four-letter words in Shakespeare, we've discovered all of them! However, there are seven that have yet to be completed (IE written enough times to cover all instances in Shakespeare)
your, will, king, know, with, duke, have
The word "your" has the most work ahead - as we've only written it 2407 times out of the requisite 6859 times. Still, it's only a matter of time at this point! We know the monkeys can and will type it.
Once we hit this goal, there will be a unique trinket reward for all monkeys who contributed to it!
Monkey Sentences
There have also been a handful of other updates from the last week, my favorite being monkey sentences. When you're viewing a monkey's latest or best words, there's a new Generate Sentence button that feeds those words into an AI and makes a Shakespearean sentence out of it! Some monkeys have made some pretty absurd sentences, such as this one:
New Items
Saving the best for last, we've added three new items in this update!
A table, a chair, and a tax-day themed trinket!
| Modern Desk | Tree Stump | Tax Return |
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Thanks to /u/Jopianos for the tree stump suggestion! Get on reddit and suggest your own ideas, and maybe they'll be added in a later update!
As always these items aren't retroactive, so your monkey will have to type the special triggers to earn them! I wonder what they are?