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Re: Binary Wordle

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Post by charly187 »

umvi wrote: post #33

Binary is too easy, but hex can be tricky. I made a hex-based wordle puzzle for my programming game where you have to guess an 8-digit hex string in as few as 6-12 guesses using wordle mechanics... called the level "dwordle" :) (video from like 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/sq4anb/i_added_a_w... )

Someone should make a base-26 version! It would probably be super popular!

Re: Binary Wordle

#114

Post by justsid »

nmeofthestate wrote: post #89
0xAFFFF wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is obviously improper. The valid strategy for this game unfolds as follows. Step 1: Guess 11111. Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 0s. Thank you for your careful consideration.

If you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.

Not to ruin a joke, but does it actually make a difference for SRAM? It’s two inverters in a loop, despite not being the same size they are active components. But I’m also a software guy so I could be totally wrong.

Re: Binary Wordle

#116

Post by dskloet »

justsid wrote: post #114
nmeofthestate wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.

Not to ruin a joke, but does it actually make a difference for SRAM? It’s two inverters in a loop, despite not being the same size they are active components. But I’m also a software guy so I could be totally wrong.

I think displaying black or white pixels makes a bigger difference.

Re: Binary Wordle

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Post by dskloet »

jesse__ wrote: post #11
patrakov wrote: post #2

Step 1: Guess 00000. Step 2: Replace all grey cells with 1s.

I think it's actually possible to win on the second guess with any initial input. Or at least I did it a handful of times..

It's not guaranteed you will always win in 2 steps because occasionally you will win in 1 step.

Re: Binary Wordle

#118

Post by NotAnOtter »

This delivers on the title but I wonder if you could tweak it to make it an actual game without wildly overcomplicating it.

Maybe make the string much longer, like 10 bits, and the game only matches on substrings longer than 3. 000...000 would generally return no matches.

That's still probably solvable with superpermutations but wordle is "solvable" with a dictionary, so don't let perfect be the enemy of "better than 2 guess bordle"

Re: Binary Wordle

#119

Post by bdcs »

justsid wrote: post #114
nmeofthestate wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you start with 0's you save a small amount of electricity. 1's use up more electricity - any electronic engineer will agree.

Not to ruin a joke, but does it actually make a difference for SRAM? It’s two inverters in a loop, despite not being the same size they are active components. But I’m also a software guy so I could be totally wrong.

> does it actually make a difference for SRAM?

I have no idea in practice. But for the thermodynamic limit of actually making a difference, any irreversible change requires heat to be generated, e.g. initializing to zero, truncating, or bitshifts with discarded information. In contrast, addition/subtraction/multiplication/bitshifts without over-/under- flow will not necessarily generate heat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

PS. you can also use mass-energy equivalence to extend this to calculate the lower limit of mass for a given quantity of information. TL;DR: The internet weighs 50g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUzu-iksi8

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