I found Grandma's Word in 25 guesses
It was volcano but I only discovered it after finding that Android autocorrect can suggest a word for me.
Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
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#52I found Grandma's Word in 25 guesses https://grandmasword.com It was volcano but I only discovered it after finding that Android autocorrect can suggest a word for me.
spoiler alert -- no need to share the answer, it takes the fun away for others
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#53I found Grandma's Word in 25 guesses https://grandmasword.com It was volcano but I only discovered it after finding that Android autocorrect can suggest a word for me.
spoiler alert -- no need to share the answer, it takes the fun away for others
Hopefully they just don't realize that the word is the same for everyone each day.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> About the game: somewhat fun but if you don't know the word, that's it. No really any way to figure out in a rewarding way. What does this mean? You could say the same thing about Wordle.
I guessed many words I didn't know on Wordle (not a native English speaker), if you are able to reduce enough the letters search space there's going to be only a few options that e.g. make sense phonetically.
I actually misread the original comment but I guess my question is still somewhat relevant so leaving it as it is. You're right that it's easier to just bruteforce it in Wordle.
Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game
#55Go grandma! Great job!
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#56[flagged]
Please footnote the mentioned reddit post
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#57I found Grandma's Word in 16 guesses
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#58There is some bug in the sorting, because it sorted “vol” after “volatile” for me. It seems to depend on some previous state, though, because I couldn’t reproduce it in a new window. Edit: See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217457 .
It seems the previous guess is always placed either one up or one down from the entry box. So if you're guessing "V" words, then type "apple", then "apple" will show after "vodka". So the list is not getting re-alphabatized.
Right. My word was before "wizard," and later I guessed "yesterday," which is after wizard. It put yesterday adjacent to the entry box, before wizard. Same is true for words before the word. Basically, if I make bad guesses, it doesn't list them in alpha order.
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> Not to be negative or anything but [pure shade] I'm gonna bet that my mom has had a website since before you were born*. She was taking fortran classes in the 60s. Your ageist attitude is pretty gross. So what if she had help? Another bet, you can't program without the help of online resources and/or a chatbot either. * given the dates on your resume, there's a very good chance I'm correct in this
you are being just as rude as the other person, if not more, buddy. There is a much better and constructive way to make this point. Also, the title says that she is "learning to code" so its not unreasonable to say that she probably isn't handling the website stuff... Also, the commenter is making a conjecture about the veracity of OP, not the mother per se.
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#60time to LLM a binary search import requests url = 'https://grandmasword.com/dictionary.js' response = requests.get(url) lines = response.text.split('\n')[2:] exec('\n'.join(lines)) def binary_search(dictionary): while len(dictionary) > 1: mid_index = len(dictionary) // 2 mid_word = dictionary[mid_index] print(f"Guess this middle word: {mid_word}") user_input = input("Did grandma say her word is before or after? (type…
I thought my manual binary search off the top of my head in 16 guesses was probably poor but if it beats a coded version, I'm happier now lol