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Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by SkiFire13 »

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'…

> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA)

This is not entirely correct (or at least it's worded a bit weirdly).

If you know that A goes in a certain place you can still try a word using A more than once. It's only once you know that A does not appear twice (because you tried a word containing A twice, and the second A way gray!) then you can no longer use A twice.

In your case you tried MAMMA which contained 2 As and the second one gave you the information that there's no second A.

Re: Don't Wordle

#74

Post by tialaramex »

inigyou wrote: post #54
tialaramex wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not entirely sure they'd need to comply. The question is what the purpose of the data being collected was, but seems to me that if you emphasise the whole idea that this is a conversation (which HN does in several ways) then actually "We don't delete comments" is defensible. If I'm reading a thread about a problem I'm having in a video game on Reddit and it goes "This is very frustrating because I can't get a rab…

Right to be forgotten is part of GDPR even though most people only think of cookie banners. There's no one-click export, either.

Like most of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" is not an absolute right. As you'll quickly discover when you insist that the bank needs to "forget" that you owe them a lot of money, there are plenty of legitimate reasons they can decline to "forget" you despite your invocation of a "right".

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by Lerc »

amiga386 wrote: post #49
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 a…

I had two word possibilities left at the end, so it's possible.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by NikolaNovak »

Like it, but would love a "No Undo" option, or at least, "don't force undo".

My friends and I share our wordle results daily. Would like to add this, but so that if you guess in three or four tries, that's OK, that's just your score for the day. Right now game forces me to undo if I have reduced option space to fewer words than there are remaining guesses, and that's quite annoying for how we'd want to play :)

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by amiga386 »

gowld wrote: post #69
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'…

> Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), That rule doesn't make sense. What if the answer is AORTA, and you want to guess ALBUM and then ALPHA?

The sibling comment pointed it out; MAMMA is revealed with one yellow A and one grey A, meaning it has told you there's only one A. If the answer was AORTA, then both As in MAMMA would be yellow.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by stanmancan »

noahlt wrote: post #72

This is a great demonstration of why Wordle’s Hard Mode is actually easier.

My problem with hard mode is it leaves a lot up to luck. If it was 3 letters and ended in “at” it could be pat, mat, bat, hat, cat, rat, sat, etc. so all you can do is to pick one and hope for the best.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by quietbritishjim »

lucideer wrote: post #34

I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?

I think you really did just get lucky. It does pick a word up front at the start.
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