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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 aidenn0 »

oliwary wrote: post #33
aidenn0 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Possible guess words. "unlid" and "mirly" are (possibly over-optimized) good second guesses in wordle.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by aidenn0 »

layer8 wrote: post #42
oliwary wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not the GP, but “April” isn’t in the word list.

Many (most?) word games forbid any words that are always capitalized. As either a month or a first name, April is capitalized.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by globular-toast »

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.

I zoomed out.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by mwigdahl »

gary_chambers wrote: post #46
VikingCoder wrote: post #44

Maybe this takes the fun out of it, but with Quordle, I've had great success with: TUBES FLING CHAMP WORDY With those, I've always completed all four...

I see you played the same meta-game that I did. It took me a few tries, but I ended up with: WHISK, FRONT, GLADE, BUMPY. Probably not in the spirit of the game, but once you have 20 distinct letters, it is normally quite easy to find the solution.

Mine are SHIRT, WOMEN, BLACK, PUDGY. I like that order as it hits most of the high-frequency letters up front to enable the odd early snipe.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by djrobstep »

DungZeekFu wrote: post #39

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!

Hey my partner plays a lot of quordle and had the following feedback:

Three things:

1. Love it! Thank you!

2. Could there be a better contrast between keyboard letters and the game board? They’re a bit too similar. I use dark mode, but it seems there is the same lack of definition in light mode as well.

3. Is there any way the whole game could be visible on mobile (e.g. iPhone12 Max) so the last few rows of the game board don’t need to be scrolled?

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by TuringNYC »

DungZeekFu wrote: post #39

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!

Which word dictionary did you use? I tried coding my own but was surprised as how messy all the dictionaries are.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by fourseventy »

autoexec wrote: post #64
DungZeekFu wrote: post #39

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!

Getting rid of the google tracker would be nice. I was disappointed to see the New York Times added one to the original game after they moved it.

Use adblock?

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by MattRix »

sveno wrote: post #57
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.

I could see something like this beating out the original. Wordle has to be 1x/day because there are only a couple thousand common 5-letter words (around 2300, if I recall correctly). It would turn repetitive. This game has O(N^4) combinations, so it can be played over and over.

I agree that Quordle is compelling but not sure I see your argument for how Wordle would get repetitive. 2300 is six years worth of words. They could shuffle the word list every 4 years and it’d be fine.

I think a big part of what makes Wordle compelling is the ritualistic daily nature so not seeing how this would beat it out.

Re: Quordle: Four Wordles in One

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Post by Packofbezens »

jetbooster wrote: post #24
jermeh wrote: post #4

I like this one quite a bit. I find Wordle fun, but a bit plain sometimes. Quordle really makes me think out of the box to optimize across the grids. side note: I've gotten most of them, but today's ruined my streak.

I feel like todays words were designed specifically to ruin the day of the 'ROATE' users

Agree, 'STARE' is my go-to in regular wordle and this one stumped me at first. Still managed a 4/5/7/6 solve :)
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