base
Every candidate hashes gender with a 64-bit little-endian counter appended: sha256( gender ‖ counter ).
ascii8
One byte per character. A match means the SHA-256 hash prefix spells the word in ASCII hex.
targets
she, her, they, girl, woman, femme, butch, demi, trans, queer — each ground from gender, each successively longer prefix match kept.
counters
Winning counter values from 3.1 million to 2.6 trillion, within a 248 budget per search.