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Re: Worldle

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Like the Wordle, the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you. How you enjoy it is all up to you. There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway.

> the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you This is something that is unequivocally true, yet I get mildly irritated/frustrated (is there a word for combination of these two?) when people use google or something to "get words". > There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway. Wordle has hard mode too. But in this case you see the map before given this op…

I understand that feeling. The social aspect of the Wordle - sharing grids — creates an expectation of some social agreement on scores.

But I doubt HN could agree on what is good sporting wordling. Some of us like to guess with no sources save our minds; some of us wrote code to generate optimal strategies. And like, it’s super easy to just delete lines from the share button output, if you feel embarrassed. We all had fun with it differently, at different skill levels, which made it a special phenomenon.

If you compare with friends, tell em what tools you use. They can say you cheat, or you’re cheating yourself, but if you’re having fun and being honest, you’re playing it right.

> yet I get mildly irritated/frustrated (is there a word for combination of these two?)

VEXED

Re: Worldle

#172

Please put it in bold font on the main page that there’s no way to get new puzzle and you need yo wait for a day. I was very confused while looking for the button to restart.

That's one of the USPs of Wordle and its clones: one daily puzzle.

Re: Worldle

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20 million meters is indeed about the maximum distance between any two points on Earth.

Along the surface. Otherwise it's about 12 million meters.

True! I assumed they were using the distance on the surface here, not the path tunneling through the interior.

Re: Worldle

#175

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…

Perhaps they should have picked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_distance

Re: Worldle

#177

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…

Perhaps they should have picked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_distance

Wouldn't that make countries like the USA and Canada extremely far apart because they are both large countries? The distance you would get is the distance from Hawaii to somewhere on the northeastern edge of Nunavut/Newfoundland/Labrador

Re: Worldle

#178
This is a fascist game that's all about indoctrinating us into accepting the artificial idea of nation states! :)

Re: Worldle

#180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps they should have picked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_distance

Wouldn't that make countries like the USA and Canada extremely far apart because they are both large countries? The distance you would get is the distance from Hawaii to somewhere on the northeastern edge of Nunavut/Newfoundland/Labrador

Not quite, you'd get the maximum distance from the extreme end of one territory to the nearest point of the other.
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