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Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by aidos »

abofh wrote: post #69
dontwordle wrote: post #53

Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today. I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through, and some of the future features I would like to add. Background: Like many others, I have been playing Wordle daily. Recently, my Wordle win streak hit 99. I was admittedly very careful with my guesses on Day 100, not wanting to ruin my stre…

For #4, this is actually frustratingly difficult, but if your constraints are not adding to the complexity, your best bet is to not, and just set your cookies to the domain. But if you like, one approach that would work: - Cert with SAN - CNAME's on the CF distribution - S3 Bucket And the sneaky bit: Use a cloudfront lambda to redirect "wrong" Hosts - comes with a cost, but it's super marginal. Otherwise, your best a…

These days my solution is to put cloudflare in front of it and walk away.

Good game to add to my current daily routine (heardle, Wordle, quordle, worldle), but man is it hard!

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by Waterluvian »

LZ_Khan wrote: post #46
Waterluvian wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah! That reminds me of something a game dev once taught me about single player games. (paraphrasing) "Almost all AAA titles are impossible _not_ to finish in a reasonable time. The entire challenge of balancing a single player game is to hide all the ways the game holds your hand, while making the player feel responsible for all the times you win."

Um.. elden ring?

In my opinion Elden Ring demonstrates how making a Soulsborne game more mainstream actually makes it less like a Soulsborne game.

It’s so player friendly and lacks most of the hard lessons previous titles teach.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by aidos »

dontwordle wrote: post #111
soxocx wrote: post #79

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> 4. Trying to get www.dontwordle.com and dontwordle.com to take you to the same URL (either www.dontwordle.com or dontwordle.com) and still support TLS and only use the tech I mentioned above. I actually still don’t have it working perfectly. I know of a solution, but it’s overly complicated If you use Cloudfront with an S3 bucket as origin for _dontwordle.com_, just create a second Cloudfront with an S3 Bucket for…

So you can do this, but it won't support TLS to my knowledge. At least in my testing, it will work to navigate to www.dontwordle.com (you will get redirected to https://dontwordle.com ). However, if you tried navigating _directly_ to https://www.dontwordle.com , that would not work. In fact, you can try clicking on https://www.dontwordle.com right now, and it won't work :) To be fair, currently I do not have it imple…

Yup, been there. Have a look to see if cloudflare will do what you need within the free plan. You just point it at the bucket, add a rule for the redirect and all the tls is handled for you. It’s pretty painless. Feel free to ping me if you want to run through the steps.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by dontwordle »

FatalLogic wrote: post #89
dontwordle wrote: post #53

Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today. I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through, and some of the future features I would like to add. Background: Like many others, I have been playing Wordle daily. Recently, my Wordle win streak hit 99. I was admittedly very careful with my guesses on Day 100, not wanting to ruin my stre…

Great game. Doesn't it push players towards a strategy of working out the solution 'offline', though? I mean, you start by playing almost the same as standard Wordle, just to guess the answer, without entering it. Then undo everything. Next, figure out a solution which avoids that word. Finally, type in your entire solution. This could be a bit grindy, and not in the spirit of the game, but it seems like almost assur…

I agree with your take. It's definitely a problem with the current game format. I have thought through some different alternatives, but not a fan of any of them up to this point.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by ethbr0 »

wfleming wrote: post #64
LZ_Khan wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um.. elden ring?

From Soft games are, I think, popular with a particular niche precisely because they swim against the tide here. Even their games, though, although they are famously and genuinely difficult, do try and guide the player to success. They just do it in somewhat subtle ways by trying to kill you a lot. I’ve been watching a let’s play series on YouTube of Dark Souls I & III for a while (“Souls Academy”), and one of things…

And I'd argue they wouldn't be as successful as they are if they weren't a rejection of something players sense in most other games, even if they don't consciously notice the systems helping them.

Kind of like the Matrix.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by JoshTriplett »

pricci wrote: post #112
db_admin wrote: post #107

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No you are not allowed to do that. A grey square excludes the letter from the position, regardless of any yellow squares.

You are correct. Words with repeated letters are not a good strategy in this game.

Words with repeated letters are a great strategy, as long as you know or strongly suspect the letter isn't in the target word, and the letter is rare so eliminating it doesn't eliminate much.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by spywaregorilla »

lapetitejort wrote: post #31

Seems like the best strategy is to choose words with repeat letters. For example, two great first choices would be LOLLY and SASSY. That's two empty cells that can't be used to guess.

I think no. This one's actually got a lot of depth to it. SASSY and LOLLY use up Y which is critical to forming 5 letter words. S is pretty good too. Preserving your vowels seems to be an important concept. You want to minimize the usage of them. But if you get a single yellow value you can dance around it safely. Or if you get a single green of it and no blacks, you can go for a word using two of that vowel which hopefully doesn't prove to be correct.

WHIZZ seems like it could be a very strong opening move.

VEXED looks pretty promising too.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by JoshTriplett »

I managed to figure out what the word most likely was after a few guesses (which were intended to be unlikely sets of letters but ended up narrowing the possibilities quickly), then undo a few times, then carefully made six guesses such that I never got a single green tile.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Post by 867-5309 »

aidos wrote: post #121
abofh wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For #4, this is actually frustratingly difficult, but if your constraints are not adding to the complexity, your best bet is to not, and just set your cookies to the domain. But if you like, one approach that would work: - Cert with SAN - CNAME's on the CF distribution - S3 Bucket And the sneaky bit: Use a cloudfront lambda to redirect "wrong" Hosts - comes with a cost, but it's super marginal. Otherwise, your best a…

These days my solution is to put cloudflare in front of it and walk away. Good game to add to my current daily routine (heardle, Wordle, quordle, worldle), but man is it hard!

surely the answer is just an HTTP redirect?

thanks for heardle! have you tried nerdle?

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