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Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by tibbar »

ThatPlayer wrote: post #30
tibbar wrote: post #22

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Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ ) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.

I believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.

Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by TeaVMFan »

oliwary wrote: post #26
TeaVMFan wrote: post #14

Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster

I like this one! Clean and minimalist. Did you make it? Shameless self-plug, but if anyone is interested in alternatives with an added challenge, I made https://squareword.org where you guess words to uncover a word square of 5x5 letters. Feedback has been positive and looks like user numbers are picking up, doubling about once per week so far.

Yes, this is a ground-up implementation using TeaVM and the Flavour toolkit.

TeaVM: https://teavm.org/

Flavour: https://teavm.org/docs/flavour/templates.html

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by [deleted] »

tibbar wrote: post #31
ThatPlayer wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.

Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.

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Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by Buldak »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #20
avalys wrote: post #13

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What's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?

The day they moved to the NYT they removed words that could refer to the female anatomy (like "pussy"), as well as words referring to certain unpleasant concepts (e.g. slavery). They retained words referring to male genitalia (like "boner"). Make of that what you will.

I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by jonnycomputer »

TeaVMFan wrote: post #14

Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster

there are many many words missing from its guess dictionary

laser lakes

to name a couple

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by b3morales »

bee_rider wrote: post #23
avalys wrote: post #13

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What's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?

The game has two lists -- one list that includes 'valid guesses' (things you can enter), and one that is a list of things that could actually end up as the solution. From the possible solutions list, they removed words that have negative associations -- stuff like "slave." From the guesses list, they mostly removed things like slurs.

What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by jessikat »

tibbar wrote: post #22
shadowfacts wrote: post #18

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It is shorter, but only by 19 removed words and 6 removed answers. Compare for yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/main.bd4cb59c.js https://web.archive.org/web/20220210034340id_/https://www.po...

Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ ) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have been removed are slurs/profanity.

It allowed cunts as a guess today :p

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by ghaff »

b3morales wrote: post #37
bee_rider wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game has two lists -- one list that includes 'valid guesses' (things you can enter), and one that is a list of things that could actually end up as the solution. From the possible solutions list, they removed words that have negative associations -- stuff like "slave." From the guesses list, they mostly removed things like slurs.

What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?

I assume the logic is that they shouldn't have "unusual" words as answers but shouldn't gatekeep too much about what words you enter as that would be frustrating.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by function_seven »

b3morales wrote: post #37
bee_rider wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game has two lists -- one list that includes 'valid guesses' (things you can enter), and one that is a list of things that could actually end up as the solution. From the possible solutions list, they removed words that have negative associations -- stuff like "slave." From the guesses list, they mostly removed things like slurs.

What's the game's reason for having two lists instead of just one?

A lot of valid 5-letter words are so obscure as to make the game not fun when you inevitably lose.

If the answer to a day's Wordle was QIBLA or AALII or RAHUI, I'd probably stop playing.

Here's the full list of valid guesses. There are a lot of words here that most people don't know.

https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d...

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