THIS MARKET RESOLVES N/A. The betting market resolves YES if at market close the letters read from top to bottom spells out a 3 letter word or longer. In the case of an order like "metaz" it would resolve YES as the word "met" is spelled. List of word I would count to resolve yes: "meat", "tame", "mat", "met", "eat", "mate", "tea", "ate", and "team". I understand words like "tam" and "zam" are valid english words, but I wouldn't count them as they are very uncommon.
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I like the idea behind this but I don't get how this one works. How will you resolve a multiple choice market as yes or no? How do I bet on yes or no?
Also I think you should have a better metric for whether or not you will accept a word as valid other than you think it is too uncommonly used. I recommend accepting any word that is a valid scrabble word since it is arbitrary and would help prevent people from arguing over your opinion. This would allow "tam" but disallow "zam".
@OrbiterVoltron wait omg I so dumb I didn't think about that. If i make another market that is the same but as yes/no at the same time would that work? Also I wanted to exclude some very uncommon words because I didn't want it to be too easy to resolve yes
@DesTiny Yeah I think that making a separate market works. I think the way you decide to resolve this market will have an effect on the voting of letters though. For example if you decide to resolve this N/A then people can just throw whatever available mana they have at letters knowing that they will get the mana back but it takes away people trying to use this market for profit instead of fighting for position of the letters but makes it easier for people with a lot of mana to win or if you decide to resolve it to the letter that gets the most votes that may make people try to manipulate the vote here to profit affecting that other market. Just saying that the way this market actually resolves will have an effect on the result of the other market based on the motivation for their votes here.
Also I want to point out that while its good to worry about making it too easy to resolve to yes, you aren't thinking about how easy it is to make it resolve no. With the given set of letters (M,E,A,T,Z) this is actually very simple given you have the mana. If you can afford to make the top letter Z then the only possible word you can spell is ZETA so if you can afford to make sure the 2nd letter is anything other than E its automatically a NO resolution. You may want to take this into consideration.
@DesTiny I think that this combo works pretty well: T E A S N K
https://wordfinder.yourdictionary.com/unscramble/teasnk
If you were to accept all of the words from that list with a linked definition there are 72 words that fit your criteria and all of the letters have multiple words that start with them. Less if you exclude some of the less common ones, if you are picky enough it could get down into the 40's. I think its enough to make things chaotic enough to be fun but still not super easy to manipulate in either way. I think the key for a good set of letters for this is making sure that each letter can form at least 1 word with at least 2 of the other letters in the second position otherwise its too easy to manipulate to no.
Either way you should use that website (or a similar one) to double check the possible combinations for any set of letters since you just have to input the set of letters and it will give you all possible combos that use each letter 1 time.