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Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by teo_zero »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #113
teo_zero wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> count undo as a partial game over

Not at all. Contrary to other games where undos are cheating, here they are part of the game. Without them it would be 80% luck and only 20% strategy.

> which is heavily implied

I can't find anything that implies this. It explicitly says:

> This uses undos deliberately rather than only as an emergency

while avoiding undos is mentioned at the end as "The Purist approach", which I read as slightly mocking.

I see it like a chess problem where you have to find the best sequence of moves, so you start off with an intial move, then backtrack, explore another idea, etc. Not like a chess match where of course you cannot undo any move.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by jibal »

gpvos wrote: post #94
SkiFire13 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 yo…

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

There obviously are, e.g., mamma.

What was the point in asking this (irrelevant) question?

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by mherdelight »

thi2 wrote: post #45
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.

It's not like a "reject all" button actually rejects all. They get to decide what "reject all" means in the, well, popup that you just rejected.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by eptcyka »

gpvos wrote: post #94
SkiFire13 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 yo…

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

How many times do distinct letters appear in the word mamma? Do not write code to produce an answer.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by gpvos »

jibal wrote: post #122
gpvos wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There obviously are, e.g., mamma. What was the point in asking this (irrelevant) question?

I read a bit too quickly over "It's only once you know that A does not appear twice", thinking it disregarded the case where A appears three or more times, but if read well that was addressed in the remainder of the sentence.

Re: Don't Wordle

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Post by skerit »

hollylawly wrote: post #8

Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version

What the hell, same here. My initial guess was "CELLO", from there on I had 32 other possible words and somehow I got the right one?
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