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Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by prvnsmpth »

neogodless wrote: post #39
prvnsmpth wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I think a keyboard that shows used letters just like Wordle does would be a nice addition. Thanks!

Of course the trick there is... does the keyboard show letters as eliminated? That's the deduction you have to do in mastermind. And if the keyboard highlighted "right place" letters for the most recent guess it wouldn't be mastermind. So really it would just show letters you have or have not yet guessed, but without any indication on if they are right, or in the right place.

That's right, wouldn't want to make it too easy!

Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by prvnsmpth »

foolinaround wrote: post #34
prvnsmpth wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's right, I wasn't sure whether the answer should be revealed or not, so I left it out. Do you think the answer should be revealed, or should the player be given more tries?

the easy/hard mode should increase the number of tries a person can make. also, would be nice to keep track of time taken in secs - as I find myself coming back to it between other tasks.

Agreed, tracking time is an interesting idea!

Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by prvnsmpth »

neogodless wrote: post #40
prvnsmpth wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I think that's the way to go, will leave it up to the player to decide. Will also change the colors to match the green/amber color coding, thanks!

I thought the colors were a nice nod to Mastermind. So perhaps a Mastermind theme and a Wordle them? :) If it's worth the effort!

Yeah I guess so! It isn't too much work :)

Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by vehemenz »

lucasmullens wrote: post #27
vehemenz wrote: post #26

This is way more fun. Wordle is cool, but short of purposely making bad guesses I'm not sure how anyone could lose at it.

I think Wordle is in part about how fast you can solve it, not just if you can.

Which is fair, but then it becomes more of a luck-based game because the luckiest first guesses will always yield the fastest 2/6 or 3/6 results. I play in an office of 60+ and first guess determines the winner most of the time.

Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by smallerfish »

Very nice. I agree with keeping track of which letters were guessed, maybe giving users the ability to set flags on them to keep track of their deductions in place of auto-eliminating them.

My first real program (age 8) was an implementation of mastermind written in gwbasic. IIRC it worked surprisingly well.

Request - cursor keys, overtyping, delete, etc should work better. Right now there are a few glitches in the cells.

Re: Show HN: A mastermind-like version of Wordle

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Post by chrismorgan »

prvnsmpth wrote: post #4
sib301 wrote: post #2

Where can we find it? :)

The title of the post is also the link, just like any other HN post! This is the link: https://playhurdle.vercel.app/

I always understood URL and text to be mutually exclusive—I believe this is the first item I’ve ever seen that has both. Consequently, starting from the discussion page, when I saw the text I initially overlooked the fact that there was a URL too.

(And I just found my second. OK, so this is a thing now, is it? I rather liked how it was until a few months ago where you could submit a link, or plain text with no links. Now some text submissions get links linkified, and now apparently you can have both text and URL, even if the submission page’s text still suggests they’re mutually exclusive.)

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