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Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but…

SOCAS?

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

#92

I found this challenging but won on my first attempt without any undos. Spoiler for today's word: https://imgur.com/a/kNvhK0q

I chose "GREAT", hit that "A", then blanked on any word that didn't have GRET in it at all but had an A in the fourth position.

I then looked up the word list and used the first word that fit the conditions. And that was the word.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

#93

Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today. I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through, and some of the future features I would like to add. Background: Like many others, I have been playing Wordle daily. Recently, my Wordle win streak hit 99. I was admittedly very careful with my guesses on Day 100, not wanting to ruin my stre…

This is really cool! I've wondered about exactly this same thing. Showing the valid solutions remaining would be really neat as well, because I'm really not sure how to interpret valid words remaining or when to use my undos in the current implementation. (If it's too computationally intensive, I would think you could memoize it across all users' games and that should make it feasible).

One other suggestion, is maybe the win condition shouldn't be exactly the same as in wordle. Instead of only allowing one game per day but using undos to make it easier, maybe allow 5 attempts per day instead? As a player I think it's simpler to be able to retry from the beginning if I lose rather than try to figure out the optimal time to use my undo.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

#94

It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!” feeling when you see what the remaining possible words are.

Agree on this. Some "give up" button that compares how far you got — for example: 3rd guess × 20 valid words remaining = your score — would make this easier to share and compare with others. Right now it's a fun toy but if you can't play together irl there's not an obvious compare method aside from giving the game state in a text message.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

#95

I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but…

When I played I tried BOCCA without knowing what it means (I was probably half-thinking of Boccia), and it was accepted.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bocca

Edit: The sibling with SOCAS is right.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

#96

I seem to have found a bug (or the word list is drastically different from Wordle). The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2 (and I only have 2 guesses remaining, so this is the difference between the game being winnable and not). The guesses I used for today were WRITE,BOODY,VOUCH,COMMA (and at this point the only two possible words are FOCAL and LOCAL, but…

>The game says I have 3 possible words remaining, but every Wordle solver website says I only have 2

Once you finish the game, if you have any rows with 25 or fewer valid words remaining (shown to the right of the row), the word count becomes clickable. It will open a modal that will show you the valid words remaining after that stage of the game. I went ahead and entered your same sequence of words, and the the other word remaining was SOCAS. That is a valid word in the NYT official Wordle game.

>Another point of confusion is that the first row says 2318 possible words, but there only seem to be 2309 words in the dictionary in the code

There are different word dictionaries in the code.

Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

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Absolutely - 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…

I've stopped playing Wordle, after I missed it twice. My strategy was to use up letters of the alphabet in rough order of frequency: STONE, LAIRD, CHUMP, GAWKY, but occasionally varying the choice of the next word when I could think of a better one. If the word was PATCH, like most other times I would have played S(T)ONE L[A]IRD (C)(H)UM(P) after which PATCH is obvious. If you hadn't played that strategy, but you kne…

This strategy doesn't work on hard mode, which is the main problem. I think it is essentially a separate game.
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