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Re: Worldle

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Post by eyelidlessness »

The thing I find fascinating about this is that it will need to become contentious by fall, either by repetition or by selecting territories which are historical and/or unrecognized by some subset of the world with a real or perceived stake in that.

Re: Worldle

#103

Post by polishdude20 »

function_seven wrote: post #63
Ansil849 wrote: post #33

I was extremely confused about the distance values in relation to the percentages until I read the help: > The distances displayed correspond to the distances between the selected and the target territory centers. > For instance, the computed distance between United States and Canada is around 2260km even if they have a common border. That's extremely deceptive and non-obvious unless you read through the documentatio…

So what is the percentage indicate separately from the distance? I think the "right" way to display the distance would be from the closest points in the guessed and target territories. So United States and Canada, sharing a border, would be "0 km", while Canada and Mexico would be whatever the shortest path from border to border would be (like 2,000km?) I have a feeling that's a bit more difficult than centers, thoug…

But then you get Canada and you instantly know it's the USA next.

Re: Worldle

#104

Post by Operyl »

Ansil849 wrote: post #62
aylons wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Territories (eg French Guiana) are specifically separated in Worldle, even being possible answers themselves. Also, this is a map game, so for me it's pretty intuitive that it is the center of the hull. Maybe with some error due to projection (not sure how they implemented the map), but should not be a problem for solving the puzzle.

> Also, this is a map game, so for me it's pretty intuitive that it is the center of the hull. I don't follow. How does this being a map game make it intuitive that the distance outputs are based on hull centers? To me, closest border would seem be the most intuitive reading of the distance...this being a map game. If you poll 10 random people, I guarantee 10/10 would say that they consider borders to be the intuitiv…

Here’s my n=1, I guessed it was “center” as opposed to borders, but I feel like this might be influenced by what country you play the game with first.

Re: Worldle

#105

Post by vincnetas »

Ansil849 wrote: post #33

I was extremely confused about the distance values in relation to the percentages until I read the help: > The distances displayed correspond to the distances between the selected and the target territory centers. > For instance, the computed distance between United States and Canada is around 2260km even if they have a common border. That's extremely deceptive and non-obvious unless you read through the documentatio…

they could have simply used distance between geometries like st_distance in postgres. curious about edge cases here where for example one coordinate is 178 longitude and another -178 longitude. also does this game show whole countries which have territories over great distances like france denmark or norway

Re: Worldle

#108

Post by skykooler »

deisner wrote: post #56

When do you get a yellow square? I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I took a look at the code. Here's what I found: For each guess, Worldle calculates a proximity score from 0 to 100 -- higher is better. Each row is basically a quantized proximity score meter, from 0 to 100 in increments of 20. If you get at least half-way to the next increment of 20 (i.e. to the next green square), you get a yellow square,…

I'm not sure how the yellow square rendering is implemented, but for me it just shows a empty Unicode character for it (Firefox on MacOS) - black squares render properly though.

Re: Worldle

#109

Post by xigoi »

numlock86 wrote: post #96
Galanwe wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.

How can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.

On a wrong guess, it tells you the distance and the direction.
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