Damn. That makes wordle look impossible to not win at. Do you think you can be sued? Is this fair use?
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
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Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#192Hello! 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, this is actually frustratingly difficult, but if your constraints are not adding to the complexity, your best bet is to not, and just set your cookies to the domain. But if you like, one approach that would work: - Cert with SAN - CNAME's on the CF distribution - S3 Bucket And the sneaky bit: Use a cloudfront lambda to redirect "wrong" Hosts - comes with a cost, but it's super marginal. Otherwise, your best a…
> For #4, this is actually frustratingly difficult, but if your constraints are not adding to the complexity, your best bet is to not, and just set your cookies to the domain. But if you like, one approach that would work: - Cert with SAN - CNAME's on the CF distribution - S3 Bucket And the sneaky bit: Use a cloudfront lambda to redirect "wrong" Hosts - comes with a cost, but it's super marginal.
> Otherwise, your best approach is sadly a second cloudfront distribution with a different bucket (or bucket path) that just hosts a redirecting index key because you end up fighting stupid AWS design decisions.
> Not that I've ever wasted stupid amounts of time on this particular problem...
Doesn't this document[0] cover dealing with ssl on cloud front? Plus Amazon's Cert Manager? Or is it missing something?
Pair that with an redirect/alias of www=>@ and you should be golden?
[0]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#193Damn. That makes wordle look impossible to not win at. Do you think you can be sued? Is this fair use?
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Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great game. Doesn't it push players towards a strategy of working out the solution 'offline', though? I mean, you start by playing almost the same as standard Wordle, just to guess the answer, without entering it. Then undo everything. Next, figure out a solution which avoids that word. Finally, type in your entire solution. This could be a bit grindy, and not in the spirit of the game, but it seems like almost assur…
I agree with your take. It's definitely a problem with the current game format. I have thought through some different alternatives, but not a fan of any of them up to this point.
Maybe just give the player the word and no undos? There's no mystery then, it's just chess, but it would further cement the game as the opposite of wordle.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#195Hello! 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…
A bug (warning: spoilers): repeated letters don’t work quite right. I have an O at spot 2 thats correct and I had it in the wrong place before. Any word like “XOXOX” reports that O has already been tried in the fourth spot, even though it hasn’t.
Well done!
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I found the biggest challenge with Margit was that he telegraphs too much . Hell raise his weapon and then just hold it much longer than you think he will, you roll early and then he punishes you.
This is something that I learned much later on (50+ hours in), it's much easier to time with action than pause. By slot in a medium/light slash between enemy long winding/telegraphs, I can time the roll/parry much more consistent, and it's dying faster too.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
...unless any of those letters appear in the answer - then you're locked into including them in subsequent guesses! Even worse if your guess had them in the right location!
Well, yes, but you're playing the odds. Sure, make the wrong choice and you can lose fast but I'm guessing, statistically, repeated less common letters is the best overall approach over time.
Agreed.
I didn't want to spoil at the time, but yesterday you would have been unlucky with both these word choices!
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Could try serving a client side redirect. Just an index.html page that has a script that redirects the browser to the https version document.location.href = https://dontwordle.com
Assuming that works, I don't see the need for Javascript when a meta refresh achieves the same with just HTML.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#199Clever. As my first guess, choosing words that repeat as many letters as possible appears to be the way to go. For example: toots
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#200Hello! 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…
I tried playing. I really did. It just wasn't fun for me. Thanks for making a new game to try!