I basically lost on my first try - 4 words remaining and 5 guesses left.
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?
#222Hello! 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 love the premise! It really pokes fun at how Wordle (and other popular games) are actually pretty hard to lose if you play anywhere above some very low threshold of effort/ability. > it would also be cool to have a “Valid Solutions Remaining” feature That would be awesome. I suppose the biggest challenge would be to enumerate possible solutions in tree form to allow DFS or BFS searching. Thanks for sharing!
Set a max 4 tries limit for yourself and see if you can maintain a 100% win streak. I've slipped to 5th on 16% of my wins with the 50% at 4, and 24% at 3 (and two (lucky) hits at 2. which I don't count.)
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#223Hello! 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…
Hi.
I don’t know if this is a bug or intentional, but playing today, I was eliminated on the last guess when there was a valid word that was not the wordle word. However, I had used that word previously and it had forced an undo. This came as a surprise, because I knew the word was safe and planned the 5th word to leave that word available.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the whole point.
It's interesting -- I only play Wordle on hard mode, so these "restrictions" seem perfectly good and fine to me. I guess if you're not used to it they seem onerous. Though I guess to be fair Wordle doesn't force hard mode, so it seems this version shouldn't either.
You could just keep guessing words which have all grayed out letters. The only way this version works is using the 'hard' mode.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#225Here's my attempt to maximize the amount of remaining words. I ended with 7 still remaining. It was tough to come up with any sequence that didn't have a 50/50 chance of losing on the last guess. https://i.imgur.com/2qZgr15.png
As a non-English speaker, how is phpht even at word?
I would guess some sort of onomatopoeia, but I couldn't guess what its trying to imitate. Maybe an uncommon spelling of "pfft?"
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#226Hello! 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…
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Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#227Hello! 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…
Hi. I don’t know if this is a bug or intentional, but playing today, I was eliminated on the last guess when there was a valid word that was not the wordle word. However, I had used that word previously and it had forced an undo. This came as a surprise, because I knew the word was safe and planned the 5th word to leave that word available.
Would you mind sharing a screen of your board? I just tried reproducing what you described, but was unable to do so.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Um.. elden ring?
Can you actually lose elden ring? As far as I can tell it’s just time consuming not hard.
I had the same thought - there's too much practice needed considering how little free time I have. I downloaded a trainer (I play on PC) and modified my stats a bit so I don't die so easily and don't feel like I needed to grind to level up
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#229Hello! 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!
If you wouldn't mind sharing a screen if you encounter that bug again, that would be helpful! Trying to reproduce it right now but cannot.
Is it possible that in an earlier word, you had tried using an O in the 4th spot? That should be the only time that error message appears.
Re: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what it looks like for you currently? I am admittedly still learning how to best support cross-device compatibility. I have found that in the Chrome Dev Tools preview for certain devices, everything looks fine, but then in reality things don't fit properly
https://twitter.com/soylentgraham/status/1531897895686914050...
Thanks for sharing that! I probably won't be able to update this week, but this bug is definitely at the top of my list.