The constraints are interesting. You can drastically cut down on both average and max guesses by _not_ reusing letters.
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#182On a side note about my actual Wordle stats: I’m currently clocking in at 97% after more than 110 plays and my highest streak is 37. Now I’m getting so good at this that I finish it within a few seconds. I’m mentioning all this because when I started playing it for the first time it used to take me more than 20 mins. Funny how practice makes you almost perfect. :)
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#183Hello! 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…
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#184tried, got stuck on guess 2. frustrating, not fun for me
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#185It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!” feeling when you see what the remaining possible words are.
Echo this. Now I am down to 1 possible word, I have no idea what it is, and I just want to know the damn word.
edit: well, I solved it by adding a breakpoint to handleWordFinishedAnimating and printing this.state.targetWord . (The whole game is run in front-end.)
Well, yeah. That was a word.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are correct. Words with repeated letters are not a good strategy in this game.
They are a fantastic strategy, though if one happens to rob you of a lot of remaining words, you should undo it.
Hmm, that was the case when I tried and I jumped to the conclusion
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#187I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but…
I see, you have to be able to guess the possible list not just the answer list. This is very unfortunate and makes the game nearly impossible.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Could try serving a client side redirect. Just an index.html page that has a script that redirects the browser to the https version
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the whole point.
It's interesting -- I only play Wordle on hard mode, so these "restrictions" seem perfectly good and fine to me. I guess if you're not used to it they seem onerous. Though I guess to be fair Wordle doesn't force hard mode, so it seems this version shouldn't either.
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#190The UI of this game makes you appreciate how much of a technical achievement Wordle is.