Thanks for making this.
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
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#162Cant you make the vertical height on mobile about 50px less, so it does not scroll in full screen on an iPhone SE. Thanks!
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#163This is an interesting (and hard) game. However, it's not representative of a "perfect" game; players often make choices that are independent of the knowledge that they obtained from their last guess. For example, it's very common to guess the first 1-3 words based on letter frequency and non-overlap vs. always using the results of the previous guess.
So again, overall it's cool, but too hard (for me) to seem fun, and it's a very different game than Wordle even though the primary mechanism is the same.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Only if you're not aggressive enough. :)
As you said, to each their own. But the original point is, don't blame the word selection when "your own" doesn't work out.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. Seems like the perfect popular game: be easy enough for most everyone to get, but just hard enough to give a feeling of mastery. I had a similar fe…
And the real value of it is that within "success" there's ranges. The real victory for me is if I can get Wordle in less than 4 guesses, since that's about how fast one can do it with optimal play. I don't really usually have a risk of "losing", but for me it's a bummer if I get to guess 5 or 6. Not everything has to be pass/fail, and most things in life aren't.
my goal is to get the number of 3 guess wins equal to that of 5
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
My guess is it was an easy, logical thing to add, and he didn't immediately see that some words would be impossible to solve. And you can't just delete a feature, even if the stakes were bigger than some players opting into extra frustration.
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#167Hello! 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…
Screen size is slightly too high for iPhone SE, wanna slice off about 50px?
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#168Hey this is great! I wrote a similar game for pico8 back in February: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=106664
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#169For me this “game” can be summarrized as:
First guess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The application won’t let me do anything even mildly suboptimal, and it’s not fun at all (aside from a brain exercise).
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#170Seems like the best strategy is to choose words with repeat letters. For example, two great first choices would be LOLLY and SASSY. That's two empty cells that can't be used to guess.
Those are decent words for antiwordle (my usual starting words for that are ESSES, MAMMA, COCCO), but this game is significantly stricter than antiwordle.
A decent strategy for guaranteeing that you can win is:
1. Play good Wordle moves (SOARE, RAISE, CRANE, SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY[1], HANDY/SWIFT/GLOVE/CRUMP[2]) so that you can determine what the secret is. 2. Undo each of those so you have no restrictions about what you can play. 3. Figure out a 6-word sequence that you'll be able to play that doesn't include the answer. (I started out with some of those double-letter words, another word that used the remaining vowels, then worked backwards from the end with progressively fewer green letters.)
Though apparently if you type in the secret word, you can't undo that, so it may be valuable to re-do the analysis from the links but looking for words that can't possibly be the answer.
links:
1. https://i-kh.net/2022/04/22/my-lazy-wordle-strategy/ 2. https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Wordle.ipy...