Fun, clever and hard! Failed miserably first attempt.
It does give you some sense for how you shrink the problem space fairly quickly--even when you're trying to avoid doing so.
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
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#12Absolutely - when they choose ridiculous words like "PATCH". WATCH HATCH BATCH CATCH LATCH MATCH There, I made 6 near-perfect guesses that would have cost me the game if I started with any one of them. This is so infuriating. I've lost I think 3 times already because of this type of word choice. Note : This is only relevant if you play on the hard-mode, which enforces you re-use guessed letters that have already been…
Usually I can solve a Wordle in a few minutes, but sometimes it takes a really long time, like 20 minutes if I don't give up. Two days ago I started playing during the last few minutes of the NBA game and didn't get the right answer until after the game was over. It took me 20 minutes and in the process I entered a word I didn't know about but that was in the dictionary. The correct word was a word I knew about but that was quite different from other words, including the one I guessed just by iterating through possible words.
I still got it though. Those ones that rhyme with other words, especially if I blow through some of my guesses before finding most of the letters, are quick to answer but are typically the ones where I lose.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#13Absolutely - when they choose ridiculous words like "PATCH". WATCH HATCH BATCH CATCH LATCH MATCH There, I made 6 near-perfect guesses that would have cost me the game if I started with any one of them. This is so infuriating. I've lost I think 3 times already because of this type of word choice. Note : This is only relevant if you play on the hard-mode, which enforces you re-use guessed letters that have already been…
Along with these ones that are hard for me to get right are when the letters are repeated.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#14Absolutely - when they choose ridiculous words like "PATCH". WATCH HATCH BATCH CATCH LATCH MATCH There, I made 6 near-perfect guesses that would have cost me the game if I started with any one of them. This is so infuriating. I've lost I think 3 times already because of this type of word choice. Note : This is only relevant if you play on the hard-mode, which enforces you re-use guessed letters that have already been…
Today was actually a fairly bad one for that. Even if you don't play hard mode it can be difficult to eliminate even 3 less common letters or so in one shot.
Yeah, I could have had today’s in two but it took me four moves because of the options with the third letter.
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#15After using WordleBot [0] for a few days, it became clear that my last "random" guess was often the only choice left, so from this sense, this anti-wordle seems impossibly hard.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#16Absolutely - when they choose ridiculous words like "PATCH". WATCH HATCH BATCH CATCH LATCH MATCH There, I made 6 near-perfect guesses that would have cost me the game if I started with any one of them. This is so infuriating. I've lost I think 3 times already because of this type of word choice. Note : This is only relevant if you play on the hard-mode, which enforces you re-use guessed letters that have already been…
Wordle is simply not meant to be played on hard mode.
Yes, very silly to deliberately choose the mode that makes those words nigh impossible to guess, and then blame the word choice. If you want to make the game harder, try to bring down your guess count.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wordle is simply not meant to be played on hard mode.
Yes, very silly to deliberately choose the mode that makes those words nigh impossible to guess, and then blame the word choice. If you want to make the game harder, try to bring down your guess count.
Meh, on normal mode it resolves down to can you solve a 5-letter anagram with placement clues. I pick a new starting word each day (definitely sub-optimal) and play hard mode.
To each their own.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wordle is simply not meant to be played on hard mode.
Yes, very silly to deliberately choose the mode that makes those words nigh impossible to guess, and then blame the word choice. If you want to make the game harder, try to bring down your guess count.
Why offer the mode, then?
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#19After using WordleBot [0] for a few days, it became clear that my last "random" guess was often the only choice left, so from this sense, this anti-wordle seems impossibly hard. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/upshot/wordle-bot.h...
One of the reasons I suspect that Wordle is popular is that it's "calibrated" (word length, number of guesses, don't have to play on hard mode) to almost always be winnable if you have some semblance of a decent English vocabulary and some sense for letter combinations.
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#20It seems keyboard is unresponsive on FF mobile: is that just me?