Don't Wordle • Hacker News Board

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by VonGallifrey » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #39

Madmallard wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention

What website isn't? The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.

> HN blatantly doesn't comply

What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by stavros » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

amiga386 wrote: post #40

stavros wrote: post #32

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I picked the right one out of twelve.

Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.

It was only my last guess because I lost :P I had three remaining.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by tantalor » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

(meta comment) the chit chat about cookies is off topic and pointless

Re: Don't Wordle

#44

Post by pimlottc » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #17

Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess: ALMEH BEKAH BELAH DEASH OBEAH SELAH Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/

And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by thi2 » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #24

If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors

No reject all button means a closed tab.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by hnlmorg » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

bigfishrunning wrote: post #36

zabzonk wrote: post #31

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that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously

i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word

Isn’t there more exceptions to that rule than there are examples where it’s correct?

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by masfuerte » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

VonGallifrey wrote: post #41

inigyou wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What website isn't? The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.

> HN blatantly doesn't comply What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.

Apparently they won't delete your old comments if you ask them to.

I'm someone who goes to somewhat absurd lengths to avoid tracking, but HN's policy doesn't bother me because I know the data exists elsewhere and deleting it here won't make a jot of difference to that.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by MarkusQ » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #44

huhtenberg wrote: post #17

Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess: ALMEH BEKAH BELAH DEASH OBEAH SELAH Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/

And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/

I can respect finding JORTS unacceptable.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by amiga386 » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC

amiga386 wrote: post #38

12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible. The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'…

The best I could do with today's word, and the wordlist, but no scoring function to minmax the rules:

- FUFFY (8159) (shipping of Faith and Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

- IMMIX (4544) (to mix or blend)

- ZOCCO (2142) (low plinth, from the Italian word for sock)

- QAJAQ (530) (alternative form of kayak)

- TRATT (155) (clipping of trattoria)

- KHAPH (7) (alternative form of khaf, the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

I get the feeling that if this game had 7 steps instead of 6, it would almost always be impossible.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by MarkusQ » Tue, Aug 25, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

hnlmorg wrote: post #46

bigfishrunning wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word

Isn’t there more exceptions to that rule than there are examples where it’s correct?

Yep, at least on most static word lists.

It's a fun exercise to try and improve the rule by extending it compared to just switching to "E before I".