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Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by amiga386 »

dylan604 wrote: post #82
amiga386 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> If the answer was AORTA, then both As in MAMMA would be yellow Why would the last A be yellow and not green? It's the correct letter in the correct location. MAMMA should be gray, yellow, gray, gray, green.

Oops, yes. In that case, if the answer was AGAIN, both As in MAMMA would be yellow (as opposed to one yellow one grey)

Re: Don't Wordle

#112

Post by teo_zero »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #93

Unfortunately, my goto starter word is 4 green letters. It's pretty frustrating to immediately lose, and then have to undo to find out what the word was.

If your first word is four greens it's actually pretty good: you get to know four letters to avoid with just one undo!

Re: Don't Wordle

#113

Post by thomastjeffery »

teo_zero wrote: post #112
thomastjeffery wrote: post #93

Unfortunately, my goto starter word is 4 green letters. It's pretty frustrating to immediately lose, and then have to undo to find out what the word was.

If your first word is four greens it's actually pretty good: you get to know four letters to avoid with just one undo!

Sure, but if you count undo as a partial game over (which is heavily implied), it's better to just be able to see what the word is and move on.

Re: Don't Wordle

#114

Post by noknownsender »

stirfish wrote: post #105
gpvos wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there no words with the same letter three or more times?

Grepping /usr/share/dict/words shows 110 words that have five letters and the same letter 3 or more times, e.g. sassy, added, daddy, nanny, melee, levee, mummy

It also accepted GEESE

Re: Don't Wordle

#115

Post by taneq »

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 :/

Many places don’t accept jorts. :P

Re: Don't Wordle

#116

Post by calfuris »

noahlt wrote: post #72

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

It puts a floor on the player's skill. That's not the same as being easier. There are game states that are certainly winnable without hard mode rules but do not allow the player to force a win in hard mode.

Re: Don't Wordle

#117

Post by seeking_future »

hmm, if you quote unquote must use the letters locked in from the previous example, then they should be brought down to the previous row and locked in by default no? a robot could have fixed that for lessthan 5000 tokens i bet.

Re: Don't Wordle

#118

Post by gcr »

This is great!

A couple years ago I adapted a quite similar concept for the PUCO 8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=106664 My version allowed players to re-use letters though. Yours is much more interesting and challenging.

I remember being pretty proud of my compression system that let me fit several thousands of words on the cartridge.

Re: Don't Wordle

#119

Post by apparent »

Pretty cool. I wonder at what point it makes sense to actually try to guess what the actual word is and then figure out which words you should guess in order to avoid it.
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