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Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by calvinmorrison »

As many of you I took a jab at a wordle solver. That wasn't so hard.

Then I said, how can I guarantee as a human, I win, in 6 moves almost 100% of the time?

"Quick Brown Fox", as in, use as many possible letters in the alphabet, comprised of 5 letter words, given that we have only 5 words to play with. That gives us 25 characters to use.

I came up with

BLOCK VENTS JUMPY DWARF GHAZI

this leaves out Q and X, which is fine. Using this as a template basically boils Wordle down to a anagram game, so kind of defeats the purpose.

But in this case, i was able to resolve all 4 at one time using my above combination. I guessed, correctly all 4 with PLUMB GLEAN VALID IMPLY. I then realized, you get even more chances on Quordle, but I didn't need it!

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by tfvlrue »

oliwary wrote: post #15

Fun! I made one with a 5x5 square of letters, containing five words down and five across: https://squareword.org/ A bit like a combination of crosswords and Wordle, as vertical words can be used for additional clues.

I've been playing this for a couple weeks now and have really enjoyed it. Well done!

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by oliwary »

aidenn0 wrote: post #27
oliwary wrote: post #15

Fun! I made one with a 5x5 square of letters, containing five words down and five across: https://squareword.org/ A bit like a combination of crosswords and Wordle, as vertical words can be used for additional clues.

Nice, but seems to use a fairly restrictive word list compared to other games; might make it more attractive to some people as I have friends who say that "ZA" sums up everything wrong with scrabble in one word...

Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean in the square itself or the possible guess words? Tried to calibrate the square itself for a good balance between challenge and reasonably common words.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by layer8 »

cableshaft wrote: post #3

Of all the variants I've come across so far, I think this one has the most staying power. I think I might prefer it to the original. I do kind of wish you got one more guess, though, especially if you get stuck, like I did today, having 4 Greens but 5 possibilities for the final letter.

The number of guesses are fine IMO. While I needed one more guess, I also had made an unnecessary guess by mistake.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by przefur »

A nice implementation, I really enjoy the practice tab. As many suggested already, it plays poorly on desktops/laptops, I have to scroll to see all four words, would be nice to see horizontally arranged windows.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by layer8 »

legohead wrote: post #26

Suggestion: I play and share Dordles via screenshots. I'd like to do the same with this but I don't want to use two screenshots (have to scroll down). Can you have an option to sit these side by side?

Or a “hard mode” where the four words are multiplexed. :)

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by jonny_eh »

xmprt wrote: post #18

This game is pretty cool but it doesn't play well on desktops because you have to scroll to see all four words. In my opinion it would be better to have all four side by side instead of trying to fit a mobile design for desktop websites.

Should use a responsive layout.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by DungZeekFu »

Hi everyone I am the creator of Quordle and I am glad that people are enjoying playing it :)

I also appreciate all the feedback and I am looking to improve the experience when playing on desktop!

You can follow the @quordle Twitter for updates as well!

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