The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle • Hacker News Board

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by LinkLink » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 5:26 AM UTC

Wordle, like many things, was acquired not because of any actual utility or value add to the company which bought it, but bought and killed slowly to comply with anti-trust laws, and to prevent anyone outside the big club from getting an atom of public power.

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by moloch-hai » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 5:36 AM UTC

radec wrote: post #9

moloch-hai wrote: post #6

http://wordle.nyc

What is this?

An exact copy of the original wordle.

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by cwillu » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 8:11 AM UTC

jmull wrote: post #2

I noticed FEAST last week. It is a little off-putting. Maybe I’ll come to like it? …I’m thinking I’ll get the wordle in one guess next Valentine’s

“break”?

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by galuggus » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 11:22 AM UTC

nunez wrote: post #3

Yeah, wordle was done for after NYTimes acquired it. I immediately started looking for other stuff. Great haul for the Reddit dev that made it. Wafflegame is awesome; the deluxe waffle will have you busy for a bit: https://wafflegame.net Quordle is Wordle++, no jokes: https://quordle.com

quordle x 2 https://octordle.com/

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by joenot443 » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 12:43 PM UTC

drekipus wrote: post #10

joenot443 wrote: post #7

That writing was hard to get through. Is Slate always written in this style? It reads like a teen magazine

It is a teen magazine.

Yeah I clicked through a couple articles, they're similarly abhorrent.

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by benj111 » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 1:30 PM UTC

Im slightly confused by this.

I don't remember getting feast, but then I'm not American so wouldn't have picked up on it.

But then I've noticed USian spellings of other words which would suggest I'm not getting a UK specific version

Spoiler:

Today a got a word about what fat thighs do.

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by dwallin » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 4:11 PM UTC

I think it's actually a smart move. Your first guess in Worldle has traditionally been one made with 0 information, and therefore people tend to pick a word and just use it every day. By making this change it encourages people to mix it up a bit, and maybe try words they otherwise wouldn't.

Re: The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle

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Post by nunez » Mon, Dec 05, 2022, 2:47 PM UTC

galuggus wrote: post #14

nunez wrote: post #3

Yeah, wordle was done for after NYTimes acquired it. I immediately started looking for other stuff. Great haul for the Reddit dev that made it. Wafflegame is awesome; the deluxe waffle will have you busy for a bit: https://wafflegame.net Quordle is Wordle++, no jokes: https://quordle.com

quordle x 2 https://octordle.com/

stop i can only lose so often