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

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Post by soxocx »

dontwordle wrote: post #111
soxocx wrote: post #79

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> 4. Trying to get www.dontwordle.com and dontwordle.com to take you to the same URL (either www.dontwordle.com or dontwordle.com) and still support TLS and only use the tech I mentioned above. I actually still don’t have it working perfectly. I know of a solution, but it’s overly complicated If you use Cloudfront with an S3 bucket as origin for _dontwordle.com_, just create a second Cloudfront with an S3 Bucket for…

So you can do this, but it won't support TLS to my knowledge. At least in my testing, it will work to navigate to www.dontwordle.com (you will get redirected to https://dontwordle.com ). However, if you tried navigating _directly_ to https://www.dontwordle.com , that would not work. In fact, you can try clicking on https://www.dontwordle.com right now, and it won't work :) To be fair, currently I do not have it imple…

I use the setup described.

It was some tinkering around with bucket name (has to match the subdomain.domain.tld) and the cloudfront origin settings. But it works flawlessly. Feel free to ping me if you need details.

See links below.

coindex.de www.coindex.de

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

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Post by pontus »

It's a fun idea, but I found it super frustrating because it gets harder and harder to come up with consistent words.

I'd personally like an "easy setting" where there's another key color that indicates if a letter is viable. So when there are only say 10 possible words left it'd highlight the letter the word could start with. Maybe it's just me though.

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

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Post by drooglyman »

moron4hire wrote: post #68
ghaff wrote: post #65

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>What makes a Wordle square yellow One thing I had wondered--but not enough to figure out what the code does... Let's say you enter Mamma for example. And there is one M in the word but in the second position. Which M square does Wordle choose to turn yellow? (But maybe it doesn't matter?) There may be other cases like that as well.

From experience, the first M.

Yep, it's the first M.

I think in general the rule is this: - Any Ms in the correct position turn green (duh) - If there are X Ms remaining in the answer, turn the first X (non-green) Ms in the guess yellow

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

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Post by aidos »

867-5309 wrote: post #130
aidos wrote: post #121

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These days my solution is to put cloudflare in front of it and walk away. Good game to add to my current daily routine (heardle, Wordle, quordle, worldle), but man is it hard!

surely the answer is just an HTTP redirect? thanks for heardle! have you tried nerdle?

If you’re statically hosting on s3 then that isn’t an option while also supporting tls. You need something in front. You can go the cloudfront route but last time I looked it was all a bit of a pain. Cloudflare takes minutes to set up and the whole thing will be done and maintenance free.

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

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Post by spywaregorilla »

wfleming wrote: post #64
LZ_Khan wrote: post #46

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Um.. elden ring?

From Soft games are, I think, popular with a particular niche precisely because they swim against the tide here. Even their games, though, although they are famously and genuinely difficult, do try and guide the player to success. They just do it in somewhat subtle ways by trying to kill you a lot. I’ve been watching a let’s play series on YouTube of Dark Souls I & III for a while (“Souls Academy”), and one of things…

I thought Elden Ring was a bit weird in this regard. Margit is likely the first boss people fight. And he does introduce a lot of concepts that seem pertinent. He's classic souls boss with a few touches of the game's unique concepts. He hits very fast, sometimes without telegraphing. If you're competent at Margit then Godrey is likely to be mechanically simpler.

But then for some reason every single other major boss is very gimmicky and does not draw upon this. Radahn is a (fun) clusterfuck with yer boys. Rennala just has projectiles and no defenses. Rykard is... just poorly designed and can't hit you if you're in melee range. Fire Giant is a gimmicky horse battle. Astel is sort of similar to Rennala. Hoarah does his own thing with grabs and jumpable stomps. Malekith and Malenia are so awkwardly fast that you need to be proactively positioning rather than reacting to their telegraphed moves for the most part.

Then you've got at the endgame Morgot and Radagon who, for some reason, seem to be not only simpler, but significantly slower opponents than Margit.

Not a complaint really. I thought boss design was great and entertaining. But definitely a bit unusual. Sekiro's boss progression was amazing and the best I've ever seen. It's a really great inflection point when Genichiro swings by to make sure you understand the game's not gonna fuck around anymore.

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

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Post by hitpointdrew »

ghaff wrote: post #65
dontwordle wrote: post #53

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…

>What makes a Wordle square yellow One thing I had wondered--but not enough to figure out what the code does... Let's say you enter Mamma for example. And there is one M in the word but in the second position. Which M square does Wordle choose to turn yellow? (But maybe it doesn't matter?) There may be other cases like that as well.

> Let's say you enter Mamma for example. And there is one M in the word but in the second position. Which M square does Wordle choose to turn yellow? (But maybe it doesn't matter?)

I don’t think it matters, it should just default to the first M.

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

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Post by 867-5309 »

aidos wrote: post #134
867-5309 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

surely the answer is just an HTTP redirect? thanks for heardle! have you tried nerdle?

If you’re statically hosting on s3 then that isn’t an option while also supporting tls. You need something in front. You can go the cloudfront route but last time I looked it was all a bit of a pain. Cloudflare takes minutes to set up and the whole thing will be done and maintenance free.

thanks for the info. I use letsencrypt and have never had to touch it since setup, cloudflare must work in a similar way but handling DNS aswell

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

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Post by spywaregorilla »

Waterluvian wrote: post #122
LZ_Khan wrote: post #46

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Um.. elden ring?

In my opinion Elden Ring demonstrates how making a Soulsborne game more mainstream actually makes it less like a Soulsborne game. It’s so player friendly and lacks most of the hard lessons previous titles teach.

This is something I didn't like about the game. They always had multiplayer so difficulty has always been... optional in a way. But the summons in this game are extremely powerful, and they change the dynamics of the fight from slowly mastering an encounter to high variance gambles on being able to capitalize on the boss just not looking at you. Which is fine. You can just not use summons. But then you see something like the godskin duo with a premade npc ally outside to be summoned and you start to get conflicting feelings about what's appropriate "intended" difficulty.

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

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Post by soperj »

dontwordle wrote: post #53

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…

for #4 does setting the a record for the naked domain to 174.129.25.170 not support tls?
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