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Re: Show HN: Wordle over DNS

#21

It would be better if it just represented replies as ASCII chars to avoid perl postprocessing. Most terminals probably doesn't display colored emoji anyway.

Here's an emoji-less version that prints correctly-placed characters in uppercase, incorrectly-placed characters in lowercase, and incorrect characters as spaces. Gotta love bitmask tricks.

wd() { dig +short txt $1.example.wd.ip.wtf | head -n1 | perl -pe's/"//g;s/\\226\\172\\156/ /g;s/\\240\\159\\159\\168/chr(255)/eg;s/\\240\\159\\159\\169/chr(223)/eg' | perl -pe'$_&=lc("'$1'")'; }

Re: Show HN: Wordle over DNS

#22

What's a good resource to gain more-indepth knowledge on DNS?

I'd guess Cricket's book(s) published by O'Reilly can guide you deep enough. Of course, developments since their publication are not covered, but you can still learn a lot.

Re: Show HN: Wordle over DNS

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I see where you're coming from on 5 unique letters but have a strong preference the other way. The possibility of double letters adds a lot of interest to the game for me. But I can see how someone would find it annoying too. I'm curious about the singular nouns or infinitive verbs suggestion though. What's the thinking there? Also to be clear, are you advocating for no adjectives/adverbs, or are you just restricting…

The reason for the restriction is that you make a near endless amount of words by allowing plural, past, future, genitive (at least in Danish, that doesn't take apostrophe in the genitive) et cetera. I'm unsure how I would restrict adjectives/adverbs, but the idea is that the words should exist as main entries in a dictionary. Here's where I come from: Decades ago I learned to play a word game which was more like Mas…

May I ask what is your favourite site for playing Wordle in Danish? I know someone who would enjoy that.

Re: Show HN: Wordle over DNS

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason for the restriction is that you make a near endless amount of words by allowing plural, past, future, genitive (at least in Danish, that doesn't take apostrophe in the genitive) et cetera. I'm unsure how I would restrict adjectives/adverbs, but the idea is that the words should exist as main entries in a dictionary. Here's where I come from: Decades ago I learned to play a word game which was more like Mas…

May I ask what is your favourite site for playing Wordle in Danish? I know someone who would enjoy that.

They are https://ordlek.github.io/ordlek/dansk/ and https://xn--wrdle-vua.dk/

The former is translated from Swedish by its author and I have promised to help the author make it look like fluent Danish, but I haven't gotten around to it just yet.

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