I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 + 2+ 8 = 11 and both pluses, the 2 the 1 and the 8 were right, with only the 2 in the wrong position. And yet that gave zero clue to what the other number was... and it turned out to be another 8, which made finding the solution really luck-based.
Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
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Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#72I Will wait for the ndimensionsmatrixle(?
Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess he means construct an entirely different equation without using 2, 8 and 1 (you had same issue as me BTW). I don't really enjoy that at all personally, but it is a thing one could do. I don't guess impossible words in Wordle either :)
Yeah I feel the same way. I want wordle to be about guessing words, not constructing some max entropy string within the constraints.
I use that same strategy in Wordle. Most often my first word is SOARE and the second is MINTY… unless I got like three matches in the first word, it’s better to get extra data quickly.
Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#74I made a solver for this and did some comparison with Wordle: https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/solving-nerdle... . TL;DR even though there's an order of magnitude more possible words, you can solve it in fewer average guesses than Wordle pretty consistently.
That's because there are fewer letters. In wordle, ignoring the fact that the word need to exists, you could make 5 guesses with 5 new letters each time and still not quite exhausting the letter space. With the math one, in two guesses you can figure out the digits.
Also, I play wordle in the hardest mode, which forces you to always reuse known letters, which makes it a lot harder. (I also playu in a clone with an extended vocabulary here: https://www.arachnoid.com/wordgame/index.html)
Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#75Cool idea.
But here’s the first game I played: https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg
Perfect example of why this doesn’t really work. I didn’t have enough information to narrow down the possible values that could solve the missing parts of the equation I stumbled on in the remaining tries.
Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#76I notice it doesn't have a "hard mode" like Wordle, I assume that's just too difficult?
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#77I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 + 2+ 8 = 11 and both pluses, the 2 the 1 and the 8 were right, with only the 2 in the wrong position. And yet that gave zero clue to what the other number was... and it turned out to be another 8, which made finding the solution really luck-based.
Ha! I played the exact same first game!
Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#78I prefer to open with: 2*3+8=14 or 84/7-5=7.
I find it tremendous important to find which place the equals sign is in while eliminating operators and digits.
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Re: Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
#80This is very frustrating. It's like Wordle but without any of the nice or enjoyable elements.
What frustrated me was the guessing. By equation 3 I had everything narrowed down except the 1s place in the answer which was same as number in the equation. So, I spent the next 3 guesses trying the remaining digits, and eventually losing with 2 more digits left to try.
You can test every digit and symbol in 2 guesses. Once you’ve done that it normally takes another 1 or 2 guesses to get the answer.