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Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by GrifMD »

mabbo wrote: post #29

I don't know what has changed about the game, but running it in my phone (Pixel 4, Firefox mobile) has become near impossible. Every other action freezes the entire page while some event gets processed. And by event I mean like "clicked the 'L' button", the most basic actions in the game. I guess I'll just stick with the alternatives from now on.

I copied the index.html and main.js file, threw them on GitHub Pages, and shared it with a few friends. It's an easy and cheap way to keep it old school.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by banana_giraffe »

avalys wrote: post #13
tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

What's an example of a word that was removed? Any pattern there?

A previous post here has the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294688

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by senectus1 »

phreack wrote: post #41
tibbar wrote: post #8

The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.

Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?

https://wordle.nyc/

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by brimble »

mabbo wrote: post #29

I don't know what has changed about the game, but running it in my phone (Pixel 4, Firefox mobile) has become near impossible. Every other action freezes the entire page while some event gets processed. And by event I mean like "clicked the 'L' button", the most basic actions in the game. I guess I'll just stick with the alternatives from now on.

It was fine for me but today or yesterday it reset everyone's "hard mode" setting in my group, and today it was glitching like crazy on my wife's phone.

Amazing how quickly they managed to make it worse.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by ThatPlayer »

tibbar wrote: post #31
ThatPlayer wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe you're mixing it up. There are two arrays of words in the source code. One that contains all the solutions in order, and one that contains all the possible words without repeating any words in the solutions list So the 10638 words are the set of all possible guesses minus the set of all the solutions.

Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.

The one you linked also describes the old word lists similarly: https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle/#variant-cheat-mode

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Post by nicoburns »

Buldak wrote: post #35
Rebelgecko wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day they moved to the NYT they removed words that could refer to the female anatomy (like "pussy"), as well as words referring to certain unpleasant concepts (e.g. slavery). They retained words referring to male genitalia (like "boner"). Make of that what you will.

I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.

Perhaps, but it also has an entirely innocent use that boner doesn’t. At least here in the UK it’s pretty common to use “pussy” to refer to a cat.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by wch »

JonathanBuchh wrote: post #44
phreack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?

I made a copy the day The New York Times bought Wordle: https://buchh.fun/wordle Thanks to Josh for making Wordle with a free license.

Did the original Wordle have a free license? I don't recall seeing license information anywhere.

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Post by frosted-flakes »

nicoburns wrote: post #66
Buldak wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.

Perhaps, but it also has an entirely innocent use that boner doesn’t. At least here in the UK it’s pretty common to use “pussy” to refer to a cat.

Pussy and boner both have innocent uses. A pussy is a cat, a boner is a silly mistake.

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by ncmncm »

JonathanBuchh wrote: post #44
phreack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know of any rehosts of the old Wordle code?

I made a copy the day The New York Times bought Wordle: https://buchh.fun/wordle Thanks to Josh for making Wordle with a free license.

It could still be improved. e.g., guessing right on the first word should evoke "lucky", not "genius".

Re: Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators

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Post by mbichan »

oliwary wrote: post #26
TeaVMFan wrote: post #14

Easier still, try one of the alternatives like Wordii: https://frequal.com/wordii Bonus features: * Streak stats to share * Try new words faster

I like this one! Clean and minimalist. Did you make it? Shameless self-plug, but if anyone is interested in alternatives with an added challenge, I made https://squareword.org where you guess words to uncover a word square of 5x5 letters. Feedback has been positive and looks like user numbers are picking up, doubling about once per week so far.

I love the idea, but on my iPhone SE the 5x5 square overlaps with the keyboard, making it hard to play.
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