Is the word list complete? I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word
that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
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#33Be happ-ole?
(Insert whistling)
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#34I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?
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#37We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
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#3812935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but my next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible.
The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them.
Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. 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), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).
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#39We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
What website isn't?
The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.